I was online yesterday and one of my friends was excited after seeing this page. As per him, he was trying to visit facebook, and this page came along. He was very excited to see this gift claiming page for 2.5K $s. He asked me if I am getting the same page of gift claiming.
Have a closer look at this page. Good example of phishing,
Look closely at the url – http://youwin-facebook.com-prizes.com/win/ .
Its not facebook.com. Primary domain is “com-prizes.com” and “youwin-facebook” Is the subdomain hosted on it.
Look at the second page comes up after hitting claim gift.
Complete scam of 31 $s plus your credit card information. Not a bad tactics haan!! Rule of thumb :: Never give your credit card information anywhere online.
Like I said before, main site url must be www.com-prizes.com. Try to visit www.abcd12345.com. And see what page you get. It will say, server not found or something similar. Which means this domain does not exist or is not registered.
Now try to visit www.com-prizes.com and see what you get.
It says “404 not found”; and not “server not found”. What this means is, above said domain is booked and it is there, server administrator (actually fraud ;) ) has cleverly removed visiting file and so its showing 404 error. Lets not go into technicalities.
Morale of the story :: Should you visited any such phishing page / any banking site url where you are going to type your banking passwords / credit card info etc, make sure you are on the right page. Keep an eye on your url.
And important of all – nobody gives you free for nothing. So, never fall for such free gift claim / lottery winning fake pages.
