The techniques are remarkable easy and quick to perform, thus enabling the scam artist to build up a large base of bogus web pages which divert traffic into his own web sites. On September 21 the Federal Trade Commission obtained a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton against Carlos Pereira, Giuiseppe Nirta, and a company of Nirta's, from continuing to operate an Internet scam which tricks web users into their web sites containing advertisements for other pornography web sites, and then prevents them from leaving by disabling their browser's back and close buttons. What the Perpetrator Does to Set Up the Scam 1. Perpetrator acquires web servers, and registers a domain names. Perpetrator loads these porn ads pages to one of his web servers.
Perpetrator copies the html source code of a legitimate web pages without permission.
Perpetrator then edits the copied html source code by adding a redirect script composed in Java Script, or by other methods, which contains the URL of one of the perpetrator's web pages which contains advertisements for pornography web sites. Perpetrator adds to these pornography pages scripts composed in Java Script which disable the viewer's browser's back and close buttons. More specifically, the scripts direct the user's browser, upon the event of the mouse clicking while the cursor is over the back button or the close button, to load a second page, which contains more porn ads. This second porn page in turn contains scripts which load a third page of porn ads when the back or close buttons are clicked. In the case FTC v. Pereira, the FTC's pleadings reveal that the perpetrators divided the functions of page jacking and mouse trapping.