The small isle of Tokelau has become the cyber crime centre of the world.Even though the small isle has only 1,400 residents ,it has more malicious registrations under .tk than any other extension,except for .com .
It seems that this websites are used for phishing .Scammers send emails to random people and try to obtain personal details and banking information .
.TK domain names are provided free all over the world.Therefore,this is an easy target for scammers.
BV Dot TK ,which acquired the .tk domain name from Tokelau said that this is aware of this problem.However,they did nothing to solve it .
In the latest global report of the Anti-Phishing Working Group was reported that : " "By offering free domain names, .tk has become the third largest country code top-level domain after Germany's .de and Great Britain's .uk."
"While there were phishing domains registered across 183 top-level domains, 89 per cent were concentrated in just four: .com, .tk, .net and .info.",the Anti-Phishing Working Group wrote in its report .
It seems that about 80 percent of .TK domain names used by scammers are targeting Chines institutions .
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