The FBI and consumer organisations in the US have issued a warning about a growing fraud scheme involving emails that lure people to fake websites to collect sensitive personal or financial data.



The scam involves email that links users to sites that are designed to look like legitimate sites and deceive consumers into revealing credit card or bank account numbers or other sensitive data.



The scam, which has developed in the past few months, has tricked customers of big retailers such as Best Buy, the internet payment site Paypal and EarthLink, a major internet service provider.

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