Most often, cyber fraudsters steal bank cards using phishing sites. These are fraudulent web resources that entice card details under the guise of providing non-existent services.

Phishing sites are created as fakes of popular web resources that users trust. The design of phishing sites almost always resembles or even is identical to the design of a popular site. 

How to distinguish a phishing site?

The infographics created by the specialists of the EMA Association will tell you about this. Up-to-date information will help you identify a fraudulent site and avoid becoming a victim of cybercriminals!

Why it is important to know how to distinguish a real site from a fake

All fake sites provide non-existent services. About 80% of phishing sites imitate electronic services for replenishing a mobile account on the Internet. The rest are created as fake sites for making money transfers from card to card.

Phishing sites are usually short lived as they are quickly identified by cybercrime experts. However, according to web statistics, in just one month of operation of a fraudulent site, up to 30 thousand users can visit it.

Phishing sites often appear in the first lines of search results on the Internet (for example, if you enter the words "top up mobile" in Google or Yandex). Cyber ​​scammers use web marketing tools to effectively promote phishing sites. How, then, do you know if the site is fraudulent or not? Careful verification is indispensable. Take advantage of the information provided in the infographic. All signs are described by specialists.

Knowing how to identify a fraudulent site, you can safely make money transfers and payments on the Internet.

How to cheat on a phishing site

A fraudulent web resource may promise the client to carry out a money transfer or top up a mobile phone. If the client does not know how to recognize a fake site, then he fills out the payment form, entering his card details (number, expiration date, three-digit security code on the back of the card, as well as a one-time bank SMS code if the card is connected to additional Internet verification) operations on the 3DSecure system). Not knowing how to distinguish a phishing site, you can easily “share” the secret details of your card with criminals!

The user receives a message that the service was unsuccessful (a completely convincing reason may also be reported). However, in rare cases, a message about a successful payment appears, but it is not actually carried out.

The client's card data is saved in the site's memory and becomes available to fraudsters who try to use the client's card account, mainly to make money transfers to fraudsters' cards, as well as to make purchases in online stores.

Knowing just a few signs of phishing sites will help you spot a fake site and save you money!