Post-Click Fraud
Post-Click Fraud is theft brought about by clicking on deceptive links and submitting deceptive forms. At any point in time, there are millions of deceptive links in circulation that claim thousands of victims per day.
Post-Click Fraud is perpetrated by criminals. It causes individuals to lose personal information, cash, credit, and control over their computers. It causes businesses to lose brand integrity, proprietary data and control over computing infrastructure.
Criminals perpetrate post-click fraud in several ways. In one technique, you are taken to an impostor site that tricks you into revealing your sign-in credentials, payment instruments and other sensitive information.
In another technique, the mere act of visting an ill-intentioned web page silently infects your computer with "drive-by malware." Drive-by malware seizes control of your computer and captures passwords, payment instruments and other sensitive personal information as you type them into legitimate sites. It also secretly assimilates your computer into a "botnet" used to send spam, attack targeted websites and other misdeeds.