Friday 25 May 2018

Warning

A phishing website is claiming that they have my novel amongst others, available as a free download.

The website ( fulvialombardo-dot-tk ) is thoroughly fraudulent, they don't have the book on their site, they are just trying to draw you in. If you do, you are in for a whole heap of trouble.

If you click on the link, you will get an enticing enlargement of the book in what appears to be an online reader, but it will only show you the cover. This is because all it is doing is linking through to google's cover rip from the amazon page. Before you can click for the next page, a message will popup which says you will need to register (free) to download.


If you click on the 'continue' button, you will be taken to a fancy looking registration page, which is chosen at random from domains such as Jetplays, Cullgame etc.,



It will then ask you for an email and a password, following which, it will verify your email. If you are idiotic enough to go through this process, they will have an email which has a human recipient that they can sell on their list to spammers. Following which you will be bombarded with rubbish until you change your email address.

Next, they will ask you to enter credit card details, just to prove you are human, above 18 years old, or a whole host of other plausible excuses, but they will promise you that they won't actually use it. Once they have the card details, you will get continual random small amounts that they hope you won't notice, being taken from your card, even after you 'unsubscribe' or 'cancel the service'. The only way you will be able to stop them from taking money will be to have you bank change your card number.

Finally, during this process they will also load your browser with malware which will redirect your google searches to a google-like page filled with other scams, popup adverts, change your homepage etc., and you will need a malware removal tool to get rid of it.

The Phishing website is registered to owners who appear to be in Holland, though I doubt this:

   Domain name:
      FULVIALOMBARDO.TK
   Organisation:
      BV Dot TK
      Dot TK administrator
      P.O. Box 11774
      1001 GT  Amsterdam
      Netherlands
      Phone: +31 20 5315725
      Fax: +31 20 5315721
      E-mail: abuse: abuse@freenom.com, copyright infringement: copyright@freenom.com
   Domain Nameservers:
      MIMI.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
      MARIO.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
The actual scamming sites Jetplays, Cullgame etc., are all registered through GODADDY:

   Domain Name: JETPLAYZ.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2063835312_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
   Updated Date: 2017-05-01T16:50:04Z
   Creation Date: 2016-10-05T16:13:19Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2019-10-05T16:13:19Z
   Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 146
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 480-624-2505
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
   Name Server: NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned

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