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If you get scammed or hacked, there’s a place you can go to report the crime. You can submit a case to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 for short. The ic3.gov website is the official place to file cybercrime complaints.

Well, turns out scammers are now making fake versions of that site.

The FBI just put out a warning about it. Scammers are creating lookalike domains with slightly misspelled URLs or different endings, and they're catching victims who mistype the address or click through from Google.

The scheme is actually pretty brilliant when you think about who's searching for the IC3 site. Someone who’s stressed, panicking, and most likely desperate for help. So if they land on a fake FBI website, and the “Agent” on the chat says they can recover funds for a fee….. even though they probably JUST got scammed, they're likely to get got again. They’ll voluntarily hand over all their personal details: name, address, banking info, and the fake site collects all of it.

So you get got, you try to report it, and you get got again.

The real IC3 will never ask you for money. Ever. And they also don't have any social media accounts, so if someone DMs you claiming to be them, that's a lie.

If you ever need to use IC3, just type www.ic3.gov directly into your browser. Don't Google it, don't click sponsored links, just type it yourself.

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