More than 2,000 suspected banking copycat websites were reported in 2023 alone, new Which? research has found, as the consumer champion calls for new legal duties to force domain registrars to do more to prevent these scams appearing in the first place. Banking copycat websites masquerading as real banks in a calculated attempt to part unsuspecting consumers from their hard-earned cash has been a persistent scam for a number of years. The consumer champion teamed up with the DNS Research Federation (DNSRF), an Oxford-based non-profit that does data-driven policy research…
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