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Three mock government websites slammed following ASA crackdown

on Sep 17, 2014 | 0 comments

By Natalie Mortimer

The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned three websites from advertising themsleves as goverment services following a promise to eradicate the practice earlier in the year.

Official Services, which offered a birth, death and marriage certificate service, UK Passport Offices and European Health Card have been told by the ASA not to present their service and the application process in a way which was likely to mislead consumers into thinking it was the official service.

Additionally they must not to use the term “official” to describe the services they offered or feature a crown emblem in a logo or elsewhere. On each Read full story ›

Source: The Drum