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Country domain extension, those letters after a dot in the domain name that tell you the country in which the website is supposed to originate can also tell you whether you should even visit the website at all. Some of them are so prone to be used by scammers, you'd be insane to ever visit any website with that extension.
Into that category, we put the following, in descending order of frequency of scams. There's really no reason to visit a website that uses these domain extensions (TLD, top level domains).
Of course, a scammer can use any comain name and extension to host a scam, spoofed website or mailware. And there are plenty using .COM. Butthe following are very prone to be hosting scams websites:
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