The FBI today warned that cyber criminals are implementing their Internet Crime Grievance Center (IC3) website, which has been described by the Law Enforcement Agency as “potential malicious activity”.
Although this did not share any example and did not point to specific attacks, the FBI said that such poor websites could be used by the attackers in financial scams or to steal personal information of visitors.
“Danger actors often create a spuff website by changing the characteristics of the valid website domain, including the purpose of collecting individual identifying information recorded by a user in the site, name, home address, phone number, email address and banking information,” FBI said,
“For example, Spufed website domain may have alternative spelling facilities or use an alternative top-level domain to apply a valid website.”
Although the FBI did not link the Crime Complaint Center’s website to any domain that spoils the website, BlappingCopper has mixed several examples on the ICC 3 (.) Live, Practizinglore (.) Net, and IC3A (.) Com.
The irony is that the first shows a warning notice that is currently displayed on the valid IC3 site, the scammers’ warning FBI IC3 helps IC3 employees to ‘recover the lost amount’.
The warning was part of a public service announcement issued by the FBI in April, indicated by more than 100 reports received between December 2023 and February 2025 of the fraudsters using this strategy.
To protect themselves from similar scam efforts, the FBI always recommends using a search engine and avoiding clicking on sponsored search results instead of entering www.ic3.gov in its web browser’s address bar, as they are often paid by scammers who are trying to restore the traffic on their own fishing pages from legitimate sites.
Additionally, never share your personal information online or with the people found on the phone, and never send them money, cryptocurrency, gift card or other financial assets.
The FBI said that IC3 or FBI employees would never contact the victims directly through phones, emails, social media, mobile apps or public forums, and will never ask for repayment of stolen funds or to refer to victims to the victims that require payment for fund recovery.
In April, Spanish National Police arrested Six suspects who contacted victims of their cryptocurrency investment scam, presented as Europeol agents or UK lawyers and asked them to pay Local tax cost Recover their lost money.
Two years ago, FBI also warned Scammers implemented by government or law enforcement officers Fake fake credentials were using and deteriorating authentic phone numbers to withdraw money from potential victims or to steal identifiable information individually.
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