URL 're-direct,' originally meant for honest use by network administrators in propagating e-commerce, is now in the hands of unscrupulous Internet  cheats, criminals, crooks, pretenders, 'animal farm' persona, brigands and pirates, who have no  genuine identity using the beautiful internet technology as part of "phishing," unwarranted and provocative attacks that confuse visitors about which web site they are actually visiting.

In fact, before you know it, you could be swung in microseconds to a different payment gate from that where you thought you were buying from! After the crooked deal and at a point in time you do not know what the payment gate look like, you suddenly come to realize that you have bought a different product from that advertised.

Your money and credit card details in the wrong hands, you are then told that the term of service of this smart alecks does not allow a return or refund after 15 minutes of purchase, when you had time to return the product/service!

As you well know, this unprovoked attack on honest, unsuspecting surfers is a kind of 'electronic warfare.'  It should be combated by e-countermeasures.