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

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

1) Their names were porn remakes of the names of popular social networks - or “Odnoklassniki” (“Odnoklassniki” ”,“ One-night ”,“ One-trash ”, 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 naked women (supposedly female users), sometimes with pop-up or inscribed elements from questionnaires, were shown on the main page (as far as I could see, the names and profiles of the photos were filled in pseudo-randomly, and the city by the visitor's IP). The total number of registered was exaggerated (if the ability to search or a separate calculation of registered by city was simulated, then it was possible to “find” many tens of thousands of profiles in a small town, how many Internet users could not be dialed).

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

In general, everything was clear with them.

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

What then is the new trick? The trick should be, because the hedgehog is understandable: the registration code is much cheaper to send to users by e-mail, but not by SMS.

Are they disguising a subscription to paid incoming SMS as an access code? Or are they collecting cell numbers for resale to spammers? Or simply after free registration everything incredibly paid should follow the rest, as in the Economic Hotel from the immortal tale-satire of Nosov about Dunno on the Moon?

Who knows?