Axe for fake AXA website - but what about all the other scam investment sites flooding the internet?

mirror.co.uk:

The good news is that I’ve helped get a bent investment website taken down. The bad news is that there are plenty of others just as bad that are trying to snare savers.

And thanks to help from ­GoogleAds, they often appear high up in search results if you’re looking for ISAs, bonds, or other types of savings with seemingly decent interest rates.

One GoogleAd I spotted was for fixed-rate bonds and promised an impressive – if unlikely – return of 11% a year and the assurance of “100% guaranteed protection”.

Clicking on it led to the site of CrownCompare.co.uk, which claimed to have more than a decade of experience in bonds – even though the website was only ­registered earlier this month.