According to BBC news Cameroon is the riskiest web domain for 2009 siting that the web addresses for Cameroon end in “.cm”. This will accordingly attract careless we users who wrongly type “.com”. The opportunistic fraudster will then take advantage of the spelling mistakes to set up false sites that look similar to those the surfer intended to visit. McAfee security experts reports that these false sites contains spyware, adware ans malicious downloads instead of the real downloads.
“The bad guys got good at exploiting bad typing skills,” Shane Keats, senior research analyst at McAfee and co-author of the report.
He added that when looking for a host country in which to set up a fraudulent domain, scammers tend to look for three things: “low cost, ease of registration and lack of regulation”.
McAfee surveyed 27 million websites for the report – of which 688,861 were sites hosted by Cameroon. 36.7% were found to be suspicious.
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