How to determine whether the website you visit is a phishing, credit card theft, or fraud website?

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1. Look at the products on the website

If most of the products on the website are discounted and the discounts are all the same, because they are collected in batches, there is no way to change the prices in batches. Of course, some people will spend some time to modify these price discounts. The products on such websites are basically kept at around 5,000-10,000. Because there are too many, they cannot batch make so many websites. This is just one of the points. Another point is that all products have no variants or the prices of the variants are the same.

2. Website framework

Because they make websites in batches, all website layouts are different, and at most the logo, title and email address are changed.

3. Product images

These websites built in batches have a common feature, that is, their images are all remotely called, such as Amazon, Mercari, Poshmark, eBay, Wish, etc.

Because they can't download all the product images, it's a huge job, they won't spend time here

4. Payment method

1. Fraud: All fraudulent websites’ payments are not official WooCommerce, but third-party. This can be seen on the checkout page. Because their payments are installed as plug-ins, we can see the path of the payment plug-in. This type of payment usually jumps because they need to integrate multiple payment accounts into one management platform to facilitate round-trip payment collection without risk control.

2. Phishing and stealing credit cards: Usually, the payment of this type of website is unavailable. When you pay, it will prompt any error, but your credit card information has been sent to their client as shown in the figure:

This is a PHP system I wrote for testing. This system is the simplest to obtain credit card information.

Then there is a more advanced one, which can imitate your bank to send you a 3D security code, as shown in the figure:

If you have any questions about this, please comment below and I will answer your questions