NEW SINGLE ALERT SOURCE FOR HIGH-RISK WEBSITES ANNOUNCED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) August 14, 2009 -- Los Angeles, California – High Risk Websites.com, a single source for information about high risk websites was published today. The new site was created expressly to inform Internet users about other sites that use deceptive marketing practices, scams and offers that are not what they are promoted as being. There is no cost for using the site.

High Risk Websites will initially feature five categories which include: Dating & matchmaking websites; loans, credit & mortgage modification; free websites that are not free; websites that misrepresent products or services; and websites that upload pop-ups that are difficult if not impossible to delete.
Additional categories will be added as the new site develops.

According to webmasters Sam Errama and Barry Briskman, “This site was born because surfing the web to get alerts requires more time than the average user can usually allocate. We wanted to provide a single source that would alert people to deceptive marketing practices, scams and products and services that don’t do what they promise to do. We feel that by identifying these high-risk websites and informing people about how they operate, will save many web users a lot of disappointment and expense.”

High Risk Websites welcomes comments from visitors and has provided a simple way to make them on-site. They also welcome reports about new websites that represent risks to Internet users. These will be ‘checked out’ and included when confirmed.

Errama and Briskman added, “It is not our intention right now to detail websites that upload viruses, spyware and most other malware. This is because there is a huge database of existing information on these and also because they are easily handled with a good anti-virus/anti-spyware system on PCs and MACs. However, their may be instances when a new threat is sufficiently dangerous for us to alert our visitors to it and to suggest good ways to stay safe from its influence.”

High Risk Websites will be particularly sensitive to deceptive marketing practices that target the disadvantaged, elderly and very young. Websites designed to mislead users in order to obtain their money will also receive special coverage and attention. Specific high-risk websites may or may not be named depending upon the severity of what they do.