Subj : Scammers build fake FBI crime reporting portals to steal personal
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Sep 22 2025 17:15:08

Scammers build fake FBI crime reporting portals to steal personal info - 
warns FBI

Date:
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:05:00 +0000

Description:
Someone is spoofing the FBI's IC3 website in an attempt to steal PII, it 
warns.

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IC3 websites are tricking users into giving away personal and banking 
information Cybercriminals spoof trusted domains and pair them with phishing 
emails for redirection FBI warns spoofed IC3 sites may mislead victims trying 
to report cybercrime 

Fake Internet Crime Complaint (IC3) websites are being used to scam people 
into giving away sensitive personal and banking information, according to the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 

The bureau recently issued a new public service announcement to warn about 
the malicious landing pages, which are the US governments main hub for 
reporting cybercrime. 

It collects complaints about online scams, fraud, identity theft, ransomware, 
and other internet-enabled crimes, and then shares it with law enforcement 
agencies to help investigate and track digital threats across the country and 
globally. Impersonating the government 

Anyone, be it victims, or third parties, can file a report through IC3s 
official website. While not every case gets a direct response, the data helps 
the FBI understand broader trends and take action when possible. 

Threat actors create spoofed websites often by slightly altering 
characteristics of legitimate website domains, with the purpose of gathering 
personally identifiable information entered by a user into the site, 
including name, home address, phone number, email address, and banking 
information, the FBI warned. 

For example, spoofed website domains may feature alternate spellings of words 
or use an alternative top-level domain to impersonate a legitimate website. 

Members of the public could unknowingly visit spoofed websites while 
attempting to find FBI IC3's website to submit an IC3 report. 

Cybercriminals spoof legitimate websites all the time. Fake Google or Amazon 
login pages are created to steal the credentials for Workspace or cloud 
services . Fraudulent banking homepages are created to trick people into 
handing over access to their bank accounts, and social media sites are 
spoofed to access business accounts and propagate malware via paid 
advertising. 

These sites are usually paired with a phishing email campaign, which are used 
to redirect the victims without raising any suspicion. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/scammers-build-fake-fbi-crime-reporting
-portals-to-steal-personal-info-warns-fbi


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