2300 websites you shouldn't shop at

Recently a friend was victimized by one of those sleazy spammer scripts that hijacks your web-based email account (Hotmail, in this case) and uses it to send spam to everyone in your address book.

I took a look at the site that the email promoted. It's a China-based ecommerce site claiming to sell everything from cellphones to electric guitars to motorcycles. I've inquired by email as to how they can sell motorcycles at sub-retail prices with free shipping, but I don't expect an honest reply!

While researching this, I discovered that the scam had been going on for a long while, under a steady stream of different domain names. Then I came across a mind-blowing list of 2300 domain names that are implicated in this type of fraudulent activity. The list includes winners like china-wow-ebay.com.

More: http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/the-bigger-list-of-chinese-scams

July 21st, 2009