Export Trap: New Phishing Hybrid

Now there is a new phishing hybrid that cloaks itself with the Export Trade. The cyber savvy are familiar with one of the lexicon's recent entries, phishing. For the newbie, it is the on-line act of tricking someone into giving them confidential information or tricking them into doing something that they normally wouldn't do or shouldn't do. Typically it is for credit card information.

The newest technique involves the Cyber Import catalog as the centerpiece bait. Phishers identify themselves as our representatives. Targets can be customers both old and new. Appealing quotations are given, and initial shipments might even get delivered. Perhaps you will lose a wire transfer straight away. Or worse, you might be cultivated with small orders delivered, and scammed in the end for a much bigger bite.

Legitimate email from Cyber Import is only answered through our private domains:

sales@cyberimport.com
sales@cyberimport.com.cn

Phishers can reference and link to our catalog. They even use our stock numbers. However, your clue for the trap is that their email will come from different public domains, such as AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, 163.com, sohu.com, etc. The more brazen might even use our name within the address, as example:

Jack_CyberImport@publicdomain.com

Pay attention to email addresses, and that provided on our Contact Us page. The success or failure of your import business might be influenced by it.

Phishers are willing to sell brand knock-offs. They are counterfeit, unlicensed goods, and cheap in both price and quality. Knock-offs flourish in China. Many unethical businessmen do a brisk trade in these types of exports. It is not our line of business, even though we receive inquiries daily.

We respond to these ethically questionable inquiries with humor: If we wanted to make money illicitly, we'd get into the drugs and weapons business. We avoid those too. Some are offended that we group such a wide range of risk together.

Opportunity for legal trade is everywhere in China. We like to believe that in addition to quality control and thin profit margins, the biggest contribution to our rapid growth is our integrity. This is the business model that Cyber Import will always follow.