There are thousands of websites out there imitating high street banks
Almost every aspect of modern life now has an online counterpart, including everything from socialising to banking. And, according to research by Which?, there is a growing trend of bank customers being targetted by lookalike websites - designed to scam them out of their hard-earned money.
There are currently online systems in place to identify and take down these copycat websites, but the number of new websites popping up, as well as delays in taking them down, means there has been a noticeable uptick in people being fooled by this relatively complex scam.The banks found to be targetted by fraudsters in Which?'s investigation were: Barclays, HSBC, Halifax, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest, Santander and Starling.
These websites typically go up faster than they can be taken down, as website domain names remain a largely unregulated industry that performs very few checks before registering a domain, for a fee. Many of these domain sellers are based abroad and there are few ways for the UK government to track down the scammers.
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