The FBI’s very own website for reporting cyber crimes has ironically been spoofed by scammers.

Threat actors are creating fake websites imitating the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) government site that allows the public to report cyber crimes, the federal agency said in a public service announcement on Friday.

The FBI, the US’s law enforcement and intelligence agency working against cyberattacks, terrorist threats, public corruption and other crimes, is warning Americans against entering their information on the fake sites.

‘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,’ states the announcement. ‘Threat actors create spoofed websites often by slightly

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