With the approach of new year's holidays, people are beginning to order the various gifts to friends and relatives over the Internet. As a consequence, the cyber criminals - they try to lure users of their banking information. Company G Data calls the TOP 5 new year's tricks кибермошенников and leads 7 ways to effective protection from them.

Trick#1 of Letters with tempting advertisements

In such letters scammers offer to buy "good" things, such as luxury watches, expensive designer shoes and clothing at low prices. The reference in the letter usually results on your site or to the site of fake online store, where in the process the payment of the purchase banking user information can be stolen. Such messages are easy to detect even on the subject of the letter: "Christmas sales, thousands of branded products for half price".

Trick#2 of Cheating for online banking

Payment of purchases through online banking is a very popular way to buy christmas gifts. Electronic bank transfer greatly facilitates the payment of purchases ordered online. Against this background popular are the banking trojans, which are used by fraudsters to intervene in the process of the payment of the purchase and transfer of money. The purpose of trojan programs - the abduction of passwords and other banking information, or even the substitution of data in the payment order on the belonging to the cyber fraudsters. There are many ways to implement such trojans. One of them: the user receives a fake message from the bank with the notice of the fact that recently transaction fails. In order to repeat the translation, the user needs to click on a link that leads to your trojan site.

Trick#3 of Fake messages about delivery of parcels

New year's gifts, which have been ordered on the Internet, are usually delivered to the addressee sending. Scammers in the course of such a scheme, so they send fake messages about the need to receive a parcel, delivery confirmation or invoice for payment. In such reports may also contain information about the impossibility of a package delivery at the indicated address or, as in the case of the example from the UPS on that account is ready for payment. In the annex to this e-mail is situated file, which is fraught with key-logger (keyboard spy). If the user opens the application, the harmful begins to spy on all the information that you entered through the keyboard. In this case we are talking about the login and password, as well as banking information for payment of the invoice.

Trick#4 of the Posts from the providers of payment services

Scammers send fake messages from suppliers of payment of services with the information that the user account was blocked due to alleged violations of, or the transaction fails. The recipient of the letter offer click on the link in order to repeat the payment or unlock the account. As you can imagine, this site will be infected by malicious code, and the user, who decided on this step, you have to say goodbye to banking data.

Trick#5 of Fake greeting cards

Another successful strategy for cyber crooks - sending fake e-cards. And again, the user, open the application or has passed on the link to get the cards, at risk.

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