Richard got caught out by a false provider of driving lessons.  A well-designed fake website turned out to be an online scam that cost Richard when he tried to prepare for his driving test.

Antes de encontrar el sitio web falso, a Richard no le preocupaba en absoluto la posibilidad de ser estafado en Internet, ya que se consideraba bastante experto en informática. Sin embargo, Richard se vio sorprendido cuando se inscribió en una empresa de clases de conducción. Cuando hizo una búsqueda en Google, hizo clic automáticamente en el primer enlace que apareció en su pantalla pensando que era legítimo y el sitio web oficial para reservar clases de conducción.

Richard only realized something wasn’t right when he never received email confirmation that his payment had gone through. When he checked his account online, he noticed that $85 had been debited from his account, not $40 – which was the actual offer he originally saw. Suspecting there might be something wrong, Richard went back to check out the website and noticed a number of things that seemed odd:

Once he got over the initial shock, Richard decided to cancel the card he had used for the transaction and contacted his bank. However, there was nothing he could do in terms of getting a refund as he knew he had handed over the payment himself by popping in his personal card details.