The FBI has issued a warning about cybercriminals impersonating its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website in what it describes as “possible malicious activity.”
These spoofed sites are designed to trick victims into sharing personal or financial details that can later be used in scams.
According to the FBI, attackers often create fake websites by slightly altering legitimate domain names, such as using alternate spellings or different top-level domains. Information at risk includes names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and banking details.
While the agency didn’t disclose specific domains, researchers at BleepingComputer identified several examples, including icc3[.]live, practicinglawyer[.]net, and ic3a[.]com. Ironically, one of these fake sites even copied the FBI’s own warning about scammers impersonating IC3 employees to “help” recover lost funds.
The FBI urges users to always type www.ic3.gov
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