Five people have been arrested as part of a crackdown on websites made to look like official government sites. The arrests come after more than 5,700 complaints about the websites were made to the Advertising Standards Authority and Citizens Advice. Most were linked to alleged scams over fees charged for tax return, driving licence and passport applications. Those held last week under the Fraud Act are on police bail, trading standards officials have announced. An awareness campaign is also being launched by the government warning people to look out for the misleading internet sites, whose URLs often contain fragments of official web addresses, such as "govuk" or "directgov". Official government services can be found by searching on the gov.uk website. Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer organisation Which? said the copycat websites mislead people into paying potentially hundreds of pounds for services that should be free...........Read more here