If you’re trying to scam someone, you want to reach as many people as you can — that’s why you’ve almost certainly received one of the literally billions of scam phone calls made every year.
But it’s not just phone calls you need to be cautious of. Scammers and fraudsters are no strangers to putting up fake websites, and one recent example involves sites impersonating Disney+.
This particular crop of phony websites is concerning because Malwarebytes found them ranking high in Google searches. That makes them particularly dangerous to anyone who doesn’t manually type the full www.disneyplus.com URL into the browser address bar and instead relies on a quick search to find the relevant web page.
The security researchers found that these high-ranking fake sites throw up a misleading image and Disneyplus.com/begin text — not the actual URL in the browser — as you can see below:
Then you get a spiel that’s familiar to anyone who spends any time on the web: a fake Microsoft “security scan” …