On one hand, I suppose it’s flattering to think online crooks so often create fake copies of the Mirror’s website because it’s a trusted name.
On the other, it is horrible to think that anyone might be taken in by one of these sites.
They crop up all over the place, one example I’ve seen this week starting with an advert on danword.com, a website for crossword solvers.
It featured a picture of Richard Branson and under the heading ‘Breaking News’ gushed about new investment opportunities.
Clicking on the advert took you to what looked like an online Mirror news story, with our logo and page layout style.
Only the url, cryptoitscool.com, gave away that fact it was fake.
The “story” claimed that Branson had gone onto a chat show to reveal that he had invested £27million…
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