Improvements
General improvements and bug fixes
The Watchlist Internet is an independent information platform on Internet fraud and fraud-like online traps from Austria. It provides information about current cases of fraud on the Internet and gives tips on how to protect yourself from common scams. Internet fraud victims receive specific instructions on how to proceed.
Current focal points of the Internet Watchlist include: subscription traps, fraudulent classified ads, phishing, rip-offs via mobile phones and smartphones, fake shops, counterfeit brands, scamming or advance payment fraud, Facebook fraud, forged invoices, forged warnings, ransom trojans.
The Watchlist Internet helps Internet users to be better informed about online fraud and to learn how to use fraudulent tricks more competently. This strengthens the trust in one's own online competence as well as trust in the Internet as a whole.
Internet users can use a reporting function to report Internet traps themselves and thus actively support the educational work of the Watchlist Internet.