Fake BSE website blocked
A Bombay Stock Exchange fake website has been used by scammers to con you into paying for stock transaction and also harvest your credit card and bank details.. The fake site looking very convincing, and can be difficult to spot any differences between the real one and the fake.
Mumbai Cyber police have initiated investigations into a fake website of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
BSE is one of the popular site that online stock traders visit. The scammers created a similar website to www.bseindia.com which specializes in live stock/share market updates from Asia’s premier stock exchange and report current stock/share market news, and they changed a few letters in the original domain name and bought a premium slot from Google’s search engine, and used web spider, so if anyone searched for BSE, the fake website’s link would come up prominently, according to a cyber crime police officer. All the features and content of the original website were duplicated on the fake website, so people would spend time on the site unaware that it was fake. The scammers would then claim money from Google by selling space on its popular fake website which by then could have recorded thousands of hits. Some features on the fake website could encourage people to fill up their basic personal details like full name, date of birth, mothers maiden name, address, e-mail address to claim some freebies or offers. The website has since been block after senior officers of BSE had registered an FIR two days ago against unknown scammers.
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