How to deal with site clones?

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Check First2020-10-13 10:06:42

Fight against spam

Check First, 2020-10-13 10:06:42

Found a nasty scam.
The scammers clone the site.

Homepage only, pretty clumsy, a lot of things don't work, but they make a very similar URL.
But if the look is not at all armed, or a person does not know how the site should look like in general and wants to go there for the first time, he will use it.

Scammers launch an advertising campaign on Google, the site hangs in the top of the search results, hence all the traffic from which they steal data and scam visitors.
Complaints to Google are useless, for obvious reasons. I monitor this situation every day.
I go to the clone, I look at the host, I complain, they are "stacked". But this is not for long, they register another one, or move to another host.

I already thought about ddos, just lay down their every attempt and keep them lying down until they realize that they have nothing to do here. But it's pretty impulsive.

Actually questions:
- how to struggle?
- how to find such scammers? (tomorrow they will leave the Google ad line and come up with a new way, continuing to sculpt scam clones and I won’t even know)

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Sergey Karbivnichy, 2020-10-13
@hottabxp

- how to fight?

No way. Understand, forgive and beat.

I already thought about ddos

- DDoS (even with good intentions) is a crime - as it creates a load on the network not only to scammers, but also to third parties. In this case, you may already be punished.

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Barmunk, 2020-10-13
@Barmunk

If you don’t feel sorry for the time, become a copyist, search engines bend only under these guys. Patent the entire text, file complaints against other copies to Google, Yandex and the court

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xmoonlight, 2020-10-13
@xmoonlight

Three steps:
1. Token (from a self-written captcha) - for all visitors to read crypt content (html, css, js) with domain binding.
2. Crawlers - "white" list of ip-shnikov.
3. The rest - nothing.

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Anton, 2020-10-14
@anton99zel

what is there to discuss?
If these are scammers, then file a complaint with the police / prosecutor's office.
If your copyright is violated, then we fix it, notarize it and go to court.
I remember the story where Apple was sued because of the use of a "bitten pear". Isn't it your case? Doesn't it hurt your image?