: How to respond to maliciously spoofed site? I recently stumbled into a spoofed version of StackOverflow and reported it to Google, SO and posted this question on SO Meta. Almost two weeks later

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I recently stumbled into a spoofed version of StackOverflow and reported it to Google, SO and posted this question on SO Meta.

Almost two weeks later that offending site is still up and serving awful pop-up adds linked to page events. For example if you scroll down the page a casino is advertised. You can read in SOmeta there is a phishing attack too, so be careful if you navigate there.

(It seems SO, in personal email to me, and SO users are content in classifying with this as a copyright issue)

But if my commercial sites were spoofed especially to this detail, I would want them shut down immediately! Particularly if malicious content is being served like those fake virus reports asking for personal contact ... these are blatent attempts in fraud on my users!

It's a really broad question, but as a Webmaster what can be done to shut down such sites?

Can the domain name register be involved or forced to pull the plug?

or their web server service if they have one or if they are serving from a physical server their internet service provider?

The question is similar to Malicious copy of site, but with criminal intent!

Does any Webmaster have experience with this, if this happens to me, what evidence has to be collected and who should I go to?

This question is similar to the question above, but not a duplicate. I expect there should be additional actions to take to stop illegal phishing attempts (fraud) that the site is being used for. Additionally the two answers are superficial and don't provide further information to answer my question of how to shut down illicit activity.