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Fake BBC site disappears after bogus story on Charlie Hebdo

A fraudulent website that cloned the BBC has gone offline after it received a surge of traffic for running a bogus story concerning the violence at French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The bogus site most recently carried a fake news story questioning the authenticity of footage of the fatal shooting of a Muslim police officer shortly after the attacks at the newspaper’s offices on Jan. 7. The website had a domain name similar to the legitimate one of the BBC, according to OpenDNS, which detected a spike of DNS requests to the website.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2868814/fake-bbc-site-disappears-after-bogus-story-on-charlie-hebdo.html

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