Scammers are exploiting the rise in people ordering food online by setting up fake websites that mimic the major supermarkets. By ordering groceries on these sites, you're handing over your personal and payment-card details. Researchers at London-based security firm Mimecast found 30 fake Tesco websites, 11 for Asda and 10 for Amazon. Criminals buy a domain name similar to a genuine grocery website, then create pages that impersonate the original. Mimecast said it had detected 60,000 fake business sites since January, with the retail sector being hardest hit. Mimecast said the scammers typically "keep brand font and tone consistent with the real branding" to make the fake sites look more convincing (our screenshot shows a fake Asda site).
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