A spoofed website is a fake site that misleads the victim into providing personal information, which is routed to the scammer's computer.

Some fake sites ask for credit card information or require you to sign up for a paid membership.

It would point you at the fake site, which I would design to look exactly like the real one, apart from an EV certificate.

The worm installs comments on the sites with links to a fake site.

Sophisticated tools are used to search for fake sites.

Frequently, fake sites are closed within days of being set up.

"We get a lot of consumers coming to us who've been sent fake sites," said SquareTrade's chief executive, Steve Abernethy.

That's the fake site.

The phishing attack sent users to a fake site where they were asked to input personal details like addresses, emails and credit card details.

The information gleaned from the fake sites is used to make fraudulent transactions.