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> Does it look like a bank of America login page and not belong to BOA oh look its crime.

How do you know if it belongs to BOA? The name of the company/contractor on the bill is regularly different than the name of service being hosted. Even then, how do you know that it's crime rather than e.g. part of some computer security coursework or a research study on phishing or a misconfigured page where somebody was doing a copy and paste and accidentally pasted the wrong thing into their site?

The answer, of course, is that if it's crime then the people who think it's crime should report it to law enforcement to conduct an investigation. Then if it is crime, the perpetrators get arrested instead of just having their account closed (tipping them off that they've been discovered) and opening another one under a different name.




You can just ask BOA if your common sense is insufficient.

Most companies do due dilligence to avoid complicity with criminal activities. If Cloudflare doesn't believe they should now they can wait until a bunch of non-technical 65+ define their role for them in 35 different jurisdictions and hope that goes well.




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