Quote from: thrax on January 19, 2018, 01:09:48 AM

Can we stop the fake bitcointalk clone websites? When googling for a topic I accidentally clicked on this fake bitcointalk.to link. It's very easy to do if you're not careful.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1036113.980

This ad ridden clone site is what I arrived at.
--SNIP--

Sooner or later one of those clone sites is going to start stealing bitcoins unless they are shut down.

I don't see the harm in these clones. They provide you with a means of archive and to read the forum when its down(this keeps on happening a lot of times).

Also, regarding the threat of being phished, if you click on the login part of the clone then you'll be able to see on Google captcha saying "ERROR for site owner:
Invalid domain for site key" . This basically indicates that the site was not intentionally made for the purpose of phishing and hacking into accounts, it could have been made solely for the purpose of keeping an archive or for displaying ads.

However, why was advertisement of stake.com being displayed on the .to website? Are stake.com even paying the clones to display their ads on clone forums?
Also, OP , please remove the link to the direct .to website as someone might actually click it unknowingly, just place it under [ code ]