New scam types - Clones of pages of well-known online stores

 Currently, social networks and instant messengers are gaining more and more popularity.

Here you can declare yourself, create your own page and place an advertisement for any company that is interested in active development, promotion of its goods or services and, as a result, in making large profits.

Online stores, keeping up with the times, create their communities and accounts in popular social networks, thus promoting their business on the Internet. This is especially relevant recently, when, in the context of an epidemic and restrictions on trade, many enterprises have no other way to generate income.

This is what scammers use. They register copies of such pages and start bombarding users with spam advertisements about huge discounts that are ending "literally now."

People are led to tempting offers, forgetting to be careful. Wanting to quickly purchase the desired (perhaps not very) product as soon as possible, buyers in a hurry make payments to the swindlers' account.

Naturally, no one is going to send the goods, and the money will not be returned. The "sellers" do not provide any information about themselves, and the actually operating company, on whose page the clone was made, often does not know about the scams that are carried out on the network on its behalf.

It is almost impossible to prove deception. It should be noted that such a scheme is actively used by swindlers before the holidays, taking advantage of the fact that people are very busy and in a hurry will not understand much, "profitably" buying a gift for loved ones.