You've all heard of these - and maybe used some of them. The ones which look so genuine, you want to crap in your pants in disbelief - how can something be so good? You are lead to these sites by various other "genuine" sites that promise to hack the number of gems in your Clash of Clans Account; the ones that promise "premium" accounts for file-sharing sites, and so on. Today was just amazing however. I opened a site (this) in search of a "survey" bypasser tool. You know, those surveys that promise a brand new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge at Rs. 250. (On a side note, do the creators of these surveys genuinely feel that anybody will believe the shit these people spew out of their mouth? Huh.) So this site looks genuine on the outside - with the usual stuff - for example, Whatsapp and Facebook hacks (for "free"), CoC Unlimited Gems, and so on. Someone even had the audacity to post premium Netflix accounts for "free". I don't know which people these stupid creatures are trying to trap, but what the hell, man? And well, well, well, what do you know? These guys just.. well, look for yourself. Visa Card Number + its corresponding CVV. Drug lords are running this site, lemme tell you that. With debit cards up for grabs, the sky's the limit. The site is easily found to be fake, as shown below: 1) No Privacy Policy - then why is the stupid button added? 2) Fake Request Form - It is basically a piece of amateur JavaScript that regurgitates what ever you have just typed into the form. Like below. Although the tool request URL cracks me up every time. 3) Fake, and for this, I emphasize, FAKE award on the right sidebar - "Trusted Website" awarded by LifeHacker and PCMag. As if this piece of trash is ever gonna get awarded. Now, I come to the best scams the site has to offer - 4) Fake (but difficult to distinguish from a identical genuine one) forums. On clicking on the "Contact Us" section, I saw a page which had a link to its "forums" and a e-mail for contacting the administrators. Every page of the forums looks like this: And I repeat, EVERY. "Maintenance". Somebody should inform the shoddy admins that you need to have a darned forum to maintain one. On clicking the Facebook, YouTube or Twitter links, you get a page such as this: Basically, the page doesn't exist, for all three sections. Unfortunately, that doesn't come as much of a surprise. 5) Spreading fake information about their site through other non-reputable sites: As expected, the site informs us that Hackolo is "very popular" and "very safe (100%)" The image on the left is a screenshot of Amazon taken on the Black Friday Sale, even though the site being "tested" is supposed to be Hackolo. If these sites are classified as extremely safe, then I'd hate to imagine what classifies as dangerous or malware. None, and I repeat, none of the links on the page actually work - the page can be treated as a standalone site. So basically what I want to say is this - the next time you want to
1) be cheap and emulate PS3 games on your measly little PC, or 2) be jealous (and lazy) and want to read you ex's WhatsApp chats without getting up from your bed, or whatever inane reason you may conjure - Remember. And Never Forget - It is just not worth it.
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My name is Siddhartha, and I am a fourth year undergrad CS student from India. I am pro-logic, but like to expand my worldview by reading about differing perspectives. I fancy myself as a music aficionado, and I devour books (when my enthusiasm trumps my lethargy). I also like blogging, and sharing my viewpoints and interests in people, which is a big part of why I have this blog. Archives
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