Scareware Scams attacks the millions of People

A leading report about the online crime has been revealed that the millions of people are tricked to install the fake anti-virus software in their computers, which makes more vulnerable and identity theft of the user’s information. This type of practice gives the profit to the cyber criminals which are known as “scareware”. Here the users are fooled by clicking in to the authentic looking website which promised to clear their computer virus. Instead it gets the information of the credit card details or allows the fraudsters to steal directly from their computers.

Symantec, the web analysts provides the new web report which says that more than 40 million people have fallen into the scareware scams in the last 12 months. Many experts saying that there is a rise in the scareware becomes effective because of awareness of fraud identity in the online. Scareware attacks the people in three ways. First the people spend from £20 to £60 for buying the software to protect their computer, but it is the fake one. Second the programs in the software are malicious, which allows the hackers to raid the personal computers for personal details and financial information. Finally the credit card information is provided by the customer on paying for the fake software.

The scareware are also performed as the pop up advertisements that looks like legitimate fonts or style of the well known software provider, which tells the user that their computer security is compromised. On clicking the message, the user redirected to the other websites in order to download the anti-virus measures that expected to clean up the computer. A Symantec senior analyst, Con Mallon said that the attack performed by the scareware is the starting point when compared to the elaborated frauds. The main thing done by the Cyber criminals is to stop your computer working and block the personal information such as your photographs or your word documents. This is for the purpose of asking money from you and leaves back your machine to you.

Now there is a raise in the scareware attack and it is important for you to be careful on looking any different name or different look on your machine. Symantec also said that it has identified different versions of 250 scams that netting around £850,000 a year to the cyber criminals. This data has been analyzed from July 2008 and June 2009. Hence it is important for you to more secure before the identity theft happened to anyone.