PII Acquired by Fake Government Websites
May 2012-March 2015, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) “received complaints regarding criminals hosting fraudulent government services websites in order to acquire Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and to collect fraudulent fees from consumers,” the FBI said Tuesday in a…
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public service announcement. The volume and loss amounts are minimal, but the victims' PII data may have been used by criminals to create fraudulent IDs, passports, loans and tax refunds, as the PII often includes the victim’s name, address, phone number, email address, Social Security number, date of birth and mother’s maiden name, the FBI said. The bureau said the “fraudulent criminal websites are the first to appear in search results, prompting the victims to click on the fraudulent government services website” instead of the real government website.