The creators of paid fraudulent erotic social networks seem to have learned a new trick.

In the second half of 2009, both in e-mail and in LiveJournal, I saw a spreading wave of muddy spam advertising erotic social networks with the following common, most pressing signs:



1) Their names were pornographic alterations of the names of popular social networks - either “Classmates” (“Monogamous”, “Monochromes”, “Odnotrachnik”, etc.), or “In contact” (“In XXX-contact”, “In sex contact ”, etc.), imitating their interface (like phishing) and located on the domain that matched the name.



2) Miniature photos of nude women (allegedly female users) were shown on the title page, sometimes with pop-up or inscribed elements from the questionnaires (as far as I could see, the names and profiles of the photos were pseudo-randomly and the city by the visitor's IP). The total number of registered exaggerated (if the ability to search or a separate calculation of registered by cities was simulated, then it was possible to “find” many tens of thousands of questionnaires in a small city, how many Internet users would be missing).

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3) They offered to register for a modest amount by sending a paid SMS. In the rules, however, the small print (and the color close to the background color of the site) explained that the price is indicated per day, and the fee is taken a month or a few months in advance, and such SMS was offered under some pretext to send several pieces. Therefore, the real price turned out to be a hundred times more than a deceit.



In general, everything was clear with them.



Now, however, sites are appearing on the horizon, with which not everything is clear. They do not seem to mimic phishing under anyone, and do not even ask for registration money, but ask to indicate the number of the mobile phone to which they will send the access code to the site. For example, take a look at “RusssErotika.com” (note the triple “s” in the domain; I don’t put hyperlinks).



What is the new trick then? The trick should be, because it’s clear that the registration code is many times cheaper to send to users by e-mail, and not by SMS.



Are they under the access code masking the confirmation of a subscription to paid incoming SMS? Or collect numbers of mobile phones for resale to spammers? Or simply, after a free registration, everything else must be incredibly paid, as in the Economic Hotel from the immortal tale-satire of Nosov about Dunno on the Moon?



Who knows?