Posting a lot today because I have a lot of work to avoid.
#Infosec and #internet people: what's the deal with businesses doing "I'm so sad and I'm closing shop" ads on FB. I've seen half a dozen of them in the past few months. A new one popped up on my feed this week, paulrichardshop.com. The standard "heavy heart" and "after lots of years" etc. with a link to an online shop.
I don't know if I'm doing this right, but I checked WHOIS data and it looks (?) like the website was first registered about 2 months ago. Maybe I am not seeing full history or something. Still, it feels like A Thing for businesses to try to drive purchases by (possibly) creating a temporary business, claiming it's been around a long time, saying it's going out of business (with personal emotion bids in details), and then making some bank.
It's not completely new. Didn't we all have a furniture store or something in our hometown as kid that was constantly having "going out of business" sales yet never actually closed? If I'm onto something, then this pattern has a few more lies built in, but is a riff on the same old thing.
Any thoughts? This includes "you did not search WHOIS correctly" (which I might not have done).
