Sentence examples for phony sites from inspiring English sources

The phony sites were then used in Iran to spy on as many as 300,000 people, according to a report by a security firm, Fox-IT, that was hired by the Dutch government.

Reporters and researchers in Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, Latvia, and Slovakia maintain lists of phony sites, and have helped readers follow the trail of conspiracies as they work their way through Twitter and Facebook.

They load Web pages with keywords to trick people into visiting their phony sites and then infect their computers.

Why these phony sites circulated invented news have come to be isn't the issue.

I  also reported that Neutron attracted visitors to its phony sites by placing ads for non-existent jobs on legitimate job sites like Monster.com.

Embedded in the e-mail was a link to the phony site.

When users entered "China earthquake" into search engines, they saw the phony site listed in the top 10 results.

Last December, hackers hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, an online bill payment company, uploading malicious code that redirected visitors to a phony site.

Phishing, the spammer tactic of duping e-mail recipients into logging in to a phony site and then nabbing their personal info, has everyone confused.

Professional match fixers, he said, have courted referees and devised elaborate schemes to create fake sports agencies and phony Web sites to persuade national federations to allow them to organize friendly matches.

In Connecticut, where the state legislature has considered a bill governing whether "primary" online sellers like Ticketmaster can restrict resales, the Department of Consumer Protection issued a report criticizing scalpers' deceptive tactics, like luring fans to phony Web sites and not disclosing their terms of sale.