"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is providing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn that threat actors are spoofing the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) government website. A spoofed website is designed to impersonate a legitimate website and may be used for illegal conduct, such as personal information theft and to facilitate monetary scams. 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,"
"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. Also included in the statement was a list of tips to avoid the imposter sites, such as typing www.ic3.gov into the address bar as opposed to trying to look up the official website in a search engine."
The FBI warned that its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website has been spoofed by threat actors creating replicas to harvest user data. Spoofed sites impersonate legitimate sites to facilitate personal information theft and monetary scams. Threat actors alter domain characteristics such as alternate spellings or different top-level domains to trick users. The replicas aim to collect personally identifiable information including name, home address, phone number, email address and banking information. Members of the public could unknowingly visit impostor sites when searching for IC3. Recommended precautions include typing www.ic3.gov directly into the browser address bar rather than relying on search engines.
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