Fake Websites

A website is an inexpensive place to advertise your businesses and automate complex process involved in running it. For example, consider the scenario where websites provide a platform for marketing an organisation products. the sales workforce has an added means of accessing product information in brief or in detail in order to confirm orders while on the go.

When a user clicks a link that is supposed to take them to authentic website leads them however to a phony site posing as a website marketing front for the organisation products and if in addition the organisation require that customers make their final order and payment online through the sites web application ... imagine the loss and poor rating this would bear on the organisation business.

How to recognise fake websites

1. Incorrect web address: Check the link of the address before clicking or type the address URL yourself if in doubt. Also you could check if there is @ sign within the address, if its there the browser ignores everything to the left of the link. For example, if you go to a Web site that is www.yahoo@givewell.com , you are not going to the yahoo.com at all.

2. Poor or insufficient contact details: Fake site tend to be vague about their identity or contact information. They offer little or no means of interacting with their visitors like links for feed backs, comments,etc. because they want to appear anonymous or virtual to avoid any direct link with site visitors

3. They promote heavily "GET RICH MEANS": As I always ask myself " Why are these site owners not super rich" . They play upon human weakness for instant gratification and greed. Their products are mostly systems which are too good to be true by selling their products for psaltery sums with over exaggerated benefits which on critical examination has many loosed ends.

4. Their pages are usually poorly organised: No link for about us, contact us, feed back, privacy policy, etc. These are hallmark of an authentic site.

Mode Of Operation of Fake Websites

1. They send SPAM messages. Spam messages are unsolicited Emails you find in your box. Sometimes they send emails to you using known people emails to make it appear genuine.

2. They send text messages to you informing you that you have won a price money or that you have been selected for an important travel or that you needed to update your account details to avoid the embarrassment of closing down your account and that you should visit a particular website for more details.

3. They sometimes use pop-up windows without permission to dazzle you with offers that you may find difficult to decline which may eventually take you to the point where you should provide credit card details. Instead of using credit card details to site am not 100% sure I prefer using paypal account. It is quit amazing to find embarrassing pop-up windows from adult site, When you see such pop-up use the "X" on the top-right corner of the window to close it.

4. They often request for a form of advance small payments that will soon go up if its not done immediately. If however you decline they present you with free access only to get you immersed and you eventually part with a hand some amount.