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Surely this should be taken down?

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  • Baldytyke88
    Baldytyke88 Posts: 569 Forumite
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    It's a fake BBC news story!
  • booneruk
    booneruk Posts: 762 Forumite
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    edited 1 September at 1:06PM
    If anyone doesn't want to click that link, it's a webpage emulating the BBC news look and feel reporting a fake Martin Lewis article.

    It's fairly trivial for anyone to launch a webpage so nothing's going to stop these instances from occurring,  aside from a massive increase in worldwide regulation.

    You'd have to get the company providing web hosting, domain name lookup or domain registry services to the site to act. 

    Using online lookups, I can see:

    The DNS provider is Cloudfare: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/trust-hub/reporting-abuse/
    The domain registration provider is MainReg Inc: abuse@regtons.com
    The hosting provider is Alibaba in Singapore: email@alibaba-inc.com

    One of them may act if contacted to report that site, or they may not - such is the way of the Internet.

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