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Following a recent support query update our response to users asking if the Design System encourages fraud to provide more details as to why we work in the open and reassure about our impact on scams and security.
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romaricpascal
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Apr 7, 2025
| > https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing | ||
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| > As for this repo, unfortunately if people want to run a scam, it's already fairly easy to copy and paste code from any website in order to impersonate it. | ||
| > Scammers can already easily create fraudulent websites by accessing any website and scraping the code of the web pages sent to their browser to create a lookalike. The Design System being private would not prevent a scammer from creating a fraudulent site. If you do notice a particular website impersonating a Government service, we encourage you to report it using this link: https://www.gov.uk/report-suspicious-emails-websites-phishing |
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@owenatgov I think that's in this paragraph that you were proposing to add extra details about security like monitoring GDS has in place for scam sites and policies like sites being hosted on service.gov.uk. Feel free to add a proposal for how you'd phrase this 😊
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Following a recent support query update our response to users asking if the Design System encourages fraud to provide more details as to why we work in the open and reassure about our impact on scams and security.