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I have come across cloned news site of mirror.co.uk promoting crypto-currency scams.

They talk about it here: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/warning-fake-mirror-we...

It was from an advert on a legitimate website, but it had redirects/popups that show only on mobile devices.(this seems to affect a lot of even normally very trustworthy websites for some reason)

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Honestly, some of those fake articles could have legitimately been written by the original Mirror. It's slightly amusing to me how they pretend like they're the beacon of truth and journalism in that article; I'd be completely sympathetic if it was the BBC, but it's not. I'm not saying they deserved this, but I'll be lying if I said I don't feel a small amount of schadenfreude. The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Mirror are so unreliable and clickbaity.

Here's someone far more reputable to feel sympathy for, Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert:

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/fake-martin-lewis...

People promoting affiliates are using this technique too...It's been around loooooong before fake news was fake news

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