Scams and phishing are getting quite sophisticated in germany. Today i got an sms faking to be a a tan approval. Obviously before clicking i checked my account and it was all fine. Still they eve created a fake website to try to collect people account and pins. Really impressive.

I might ddos the site later for fun.

Is there a proper way to report this?

Be clever people, this type of scam easily gets older people.

by Famous_Pool801

11 comments

  1. >I might ddos the site later for fun.

    Brilliant idea! You are going to DDoS some mass market hoster, they are prepared for that in the sense of having the police on speed dial. Well, at least you will have new “friends” come over to your house.

  2. Try finding out who the registrar of the site is using something like DomainTools and report the malicious activities to the registrar and report the site to Google SafeBrowsing. However, these sites are commonly up for only a few days regardless.

    Also, the site possibly is behind some DDoS protection.

  3. >Still they eve created a fake website to try to collect people account and pins. Really impressive.

    how is that impressive? even kids from elementary school can create websites nowadays. it’s really not as hard as you think it is. anybody can buy some random domain and forward it to whatever scam they try to do here.

    this sms shouts scam in every sentence, if you think this is impressive i really have some questions…

    >I might ddos the site later for fun.

    oh yeah great, attack some random site hosted for a couple of days on a random server that gets taken down soon anyways. these scams are always short term just like these calls that are always from a different number. if they’re operating this website from a data center and you attack that server you’ll gonna be in very big trouble in no time. that’s really the worst thing you can do

  4. There is nothing sophisticated about this, but whatever. What I do when I get something is report it to the domain registrar’s abuse email address. They usually react pretty quickly, just send a screenshot with the full address.

  5. You received a message from random number and it’s a sophisticated scam still?

  6. 1. They’re not complex, that has been going on forever.

    2. Police doesn’t care

    3. DDoS at most will just run into host/cloudflare DDoS protection most likely, so you won’t achieve much. Also unless you have large amount of devices your single device DDoS is useless.

  7. This has been around for quite some time – and I personally don’t think it’s very sophisticated. The domain clearly isn’t legit and no bank would ever communicate via SMS and ask you to click on a link.

    I’m not saying that there aren’t people who fall for it, of course there are. I’m just saying that it’s relatively easy to avoid if you use common sense and follow some basic anti-phishing practices.

  8. It bears repeating that these scams target the weak and the gullible and the uninformed.

    I get a message like this at least once a month and it still takes my brain a second or two to process that this is a scam.

    If you have the free time, do an online “Anzeige” via the website of the police in your Bundesland. There might even be a way to report these scams specificly. It is unlikely that something comes from it, but there is not much the police can do and even less if those scammers don’t get reported. If it saves one old Granny from losing her money because a particular server or number got turned of in time, I’d count that as a win.

  9. It is interesting one ngl, never received any spam on my phone number thankfully, so I am not sure how they get phone numbers.

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