World’s Largest Online Scam 76000 Fake Websites Over 8 Lakh Victims Duped by Chinese Scammer Network

The biggest challenge facing the increasingly digital world is online scams. Every day people become victims of online fraud and lose their hard-earned money. Taking advantage of advancing technology, scammers invent new tools and methods to defraud people. Now, an investigation has unearthed 76 thousand fake websites, which pretend to be online designer shops and through these, bank card details of lakhs of people have been stolen. It is being told that this network started from Fujian province of China. This network includes many developers and data harvesters, who are also paid salaries through Chinese banks.

The Guardian and two other publications have jointly Report Has been released, in which information has been given about the disclosure of 76,000 such websites, which are fake and have succeeded in stealing the bank card details of more than 8 lakh people in Europe and America. This is a large network of fake online designer shops allegedly being run from China, whose sole purpose is to steal people’s bank card details along with other sensitive personal information. steal data Is. According to the institute, this is one of the biggest scams of its kind.

These scammers are run by a highly organized group consisting of technically savvy developers and management. This network reportedly originated in China’s Fujian province. The investigation discovered that several IP (Internet Protocol) addresses were traced to China, some of which were located in the Fujian cities of Putian and Fuzhou. The group has many developers and data harvesters, who are also paid salaries through Chinese banks.

‘There were also three templates for employment contracts, where the employer is listed as Fuzhou Zhongqing Network Technology Co., Ltd.,’ the investigation reads. These shops were revealed by German cybersecurity consultancy Security Research Labs (SR Labs), which later shared the data with the Guardian.

it Scam It began with programmers creating fake online stores that offered deals on popular luxury brands including Nike, Hugo Boss, Dior, Versace, Prada, and many more. The first fake website to offer such deals was in 2015. The report shows that these websites have been launched in multiple languages ​​including English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.

In the last three years, more than 10 lakh orders have been processed in this big scam. These entice buyers to share sensitive personal information and banking details, often resulting in customers not receiving the items they paid for. Not only this, investigation of the data also revealed that during this period this scamming group managed to loot approximately 50 million Euros (about Rs 45 lakh). An estimated 800,000 individuals have fallen victim to this scam, the majority of whom are based in the US and Europe.