The scams, purporting to show clips of Buzz and Woody talking, send users to malware-infected and useless sites. Some even claim to offer games related to Toy Story 3.

“Most of the surveys we see tend to ask a lot of questions that reveal plenty of information about the individual filling them in, and you probably don’t want your kids giving some random third party lots of information about Dad or whatever,” Christopher Boyd of Sunbelt writes in a blogpost. “Sites asking to install programs in return for the Toy Story game or movie should be avoided, along with any promises that sound too good to be true on Youtube.”

Called scareware because they scare consumers into buying bogus anti-virus programs, this type of scam has become one of the fastest-growing types of online frauds, according to the FBI. Instead of removing the supposed virus, the programs often do either nothing at all or they install malware onto computers.

Panda Security estimates scareware brings in some $34 million a month in revenue for industrious cyber gangs. Perfect example: the Ukraine-based company Innovative Market. In May, the company was charged with running a $100+ million scareware business that scammed Internet users in more than 60 countries. According to the indictment, proceeds from the sales of the scareware were deposited into bank accounts controlled by the scammers and their accomplices throughout the world and then transferred to European accounts.

To reach victims en masse, cyber criminals often employ botnets to push out their scareware. They will also pose as legitimate Internet security companies and buy ads on other websites—called “malvertising”—but when consumers click on the ads to purchase the products, they are redirected to websites controlled by the scammers.

Although any day or time is good enough for scammers to plug their bogus products, holidays and popular events are common occasions exploited by cyber criminals. Most recently, scammers poisoned Fourth of July web queries, according to USA Today. And with the ongoing “Twilight” hysteria, scammers know how to work the popularity of the series to their advantage by tainting “Twilight”-related search results with malicious links that trigger programs promoting fake anti-virus protection.

The World Cup has also proven to be another recent popular topic for scammers to abuse. According to PandaLabs, scareware called MySecurityEngine was being pushed through FIFA-related search terms. The fake software changed the desktop setting of the victim to display fake security alerts and take over the browser to direct the user to useless sites. It also installed malicious files and downloaded itself automatically onto the victim’s computer, making it hard to remove the malware.

To protect consumers from scareware, the FBI urges the use of a legitimate, up-to-date anti-virus program.

“The attack was on the Indonesian government Web server,” Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky Labs, writes. “The gang behind the attack put a defacement on the hacked Web server clearly related with the World Cup activities.”

The hacked website features the World Cup song and appears more nationalistic, similar to those hacks perpetrated by Chinese, Russian or Iranian hackers when their nations’ are criticized. The only difference is, this hack is related to sport.

“It’s still just a small percentage of spam overall (under 2%) but when comparing the first three days from the last six months, we see a doubling in volume and 74 times the number of hits on related keywords from January to June,” F-Secure’s Sean Sullivan writes. “As the tournament continues from June to July 11th, we expect to see more related threats. A good example? SEO poisoning.”