As coronavirus cases continue to skyrocket in Colorado and across the country, scammers are looking for any chance to take advantage.
If you’ve gone to the grocery store recently, you’ve probably noticed things like toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies flying off the shelves again. The same thing is happening in stores around the U.S. That has forced many people to turn to online shopping to order these hard-to-find items. But beware: sometimes, those websites are fake.
The Federal Trade Commission said it recently filed a complaint against 25 counterfeit websites that used real images and logos of Clorox and Lysol products all in an effort to make people think they were buying real cleaning products from the companies’ official websites. Many of the websites named in the complaint contained words like “Clorox,” “Lysol” and “clean” in the web address.