Free Covid Tests Provide Latest Venue for Suspected Fraudsters
- New U.S. websites triggered a rash of similar domain names
- Critical thinking goes ‘out the window’ when people see Covid
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As a new government website went live in January to offer free Covid-19 test kits, a rash of new domain names were registered. Some had remarkably similar URLs, or were nearly the same but slightly misspelled.
Cybersecurity experts said the goal was likely the same for all of them: bogus domain names that can be used for phishing attacks and other scams.