Bitcoin Foundation Issues Fraud Alert Over Cloned Websites
The Bitcoin Foundation has issued a fraud alert over fake websites that are attempting to steal innocent visitors' bitcoin. The bitcoin advocacy organisation said in a statement that it knows of two cloned websites, bitcoincompensation.com and bitsecuretransfer.com, which are cloning the legitimate Bitcoin Foundation site and spoofing web addresses and domains. "Neither of these domains have anything to do with the Bitcoin Foundation," the foundation stressed. How the scam works. Bitcoiners are directed to a fake page that looks like the legitimate Bitcoin Foundation website, where they....
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