According to a study by PhishTank, 110 sites Costa Rican Internet sites are dedicated to commit frauds against web surfers.  The company made an analysis of 3,678 pages Web, in the past month of October, and determined that these 110 places try to rob money to from the people through deceit.

These pages, Costa Rican pages imitate or clone sites for payments, purchases or of banks. This technique is known as “phishing” in English.  Its aim is to obtain numbers of banking credit cards, accounts and the security codes. With this information, the delinquents enter the true sites and they rob the client.

Christopher Richarson, of the Direction of Networks and Systems of RACSA, explained that these sites send electronic mails asking to them the people who enter to update the data bases. “As they are cloned pages, people think that they are in the real one and give up personal information, accounts and security codes”, commented Richarson.

For this expert in Internet, the important thing is not to respond this type of email, since no banking organization in the country asks for an update of its data bases by electronic mail.