Overpaying isn’t the only risk facing people who click on ads for such sites. TechCrunch reported earlier this year that one of the sites in my sample “publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtain a U.K. immigration visa.”
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The third-party website exposed passports, selfies, and the location data of applicants who submitted their documents as part of the U.K. visa application process. Instead of fixing the issue, the web...