The FBI issued a public service announcement revealing that its website for reporting cyber crimes had been spoofed by scammers looking to steal personal information.
The statement was posted Friday, Sept. 19 on the FBI’s official website for the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). According to the bureau, “threat actors” had created replicas of IC3’s website for the purpose of harvesting user data. The PSA continued:
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…