Security Alert

Urgent Scam Alert & Brand Impersonation Notice

A Message to Our Clients, Partners, and Community

At Nerd Digital, we pride ourselves on building trust and security in the digital space. It is with that commitment to transparency that we are issuing an urgent warning regarding a sophisticated, external criminal campaign attempting to impersonate our brand.

This is a Brand Impersonation scam designed to exploit job seekers and damage our reputation. We want to assure all stakeholders that our official systems, data, and client operations remain secure.

1. The Core Threat: The Impersonator

We have identified a fraudulent website and related malicious activity operating under a similar name:

Fraudulent Site: nerdlimited [dot] com
⚠️ Do not click this link or visit this website

Nerd Digital is registered in the UK as Nerd limited, with the official company number 10700961 and has traded successfully with clients in the UK and Europe since March 2017. When we founded the company, the .com's were unavailable, so we settled on:

Our ONLY Official Website is:

www.nerddigital.co.uk

This fraudulent group is using the cloned domain to post fake job listings (typically high-paying, remote, and flexible roles) with the sole intention of committing employment fraud.

The Golden Rule:

NERD Digital will NEVER ask any prospective employee, contractor, or job seeker to pay us money for training, equipment, background checks, or administrative fees. Whilst we are growing fast, we have no current job vacancies.

2. Anatomy of the Attack: What to Look For

This is not a simple email phishing attempt; it is a multi-stage attack designed to cause reputational harm. We have tracked the following progression:

Initial Phishing Attempts: The campaign began with vague phishing emails and links sent to general staff inboxes.
Automated Harassment: This progressed to persistent, automated (robot) phone calls with aggressive messaging, falsely accusing the company of running a scam.
Suspicious Reviews: The campaign included a series of one-star reviews posted on public platforms. We are investigating these reviews as they contain generic language and details (such as asking for a "15K" payment for data) that are consistent with the fraudulent employment scam being run by the impersonating site, and do not correspond to any known client projects or employment records at NERD Digital.

If you encounter a job posting, call, or review that matches these patterns, you are dealing with the scammers, not NERD Digital.

3. Our Proactive Action Plan (Transparency & Technical Defence)

We are taking aggressive steps to dismantle this criminal operation and protect the digital landscape. Our strategy targets search engines, registrars, and legal authorities.

Technical Takedown & Blocking

We are proactively engaging the web's infrastructure providers to remove the malicious site and block its visibility:

Search Engine Visibility (Google): We are reporting the fraudulent site to Google Safe Browsing for phishing and trademark infringement to force its demotion and potential removal from search results.
Domain Registrar (e.g., GoDaddy): We are filing official abuse reports citing Phishing and Trademark Infringement with the domain registrar identified via WHOIS lookup, demanding the immediate suspension of the domain nerdlimited [dot] com.
Hosting/CDN Providers (e.g., Cloudflare): We are submitting abuse reports for the website's content to its hosting provider and CDN (if applicable), demanding the removal of the fraudulent and malicious content for violating their terms of service.
Review Appeals: We are providing detailed evidence of the coordinated scam to all review platforms to ensure the fake reviews are permanently removed.

Law Enforcement Reporting

We have formally reported the fraud, the scammer communications, and the financial losses to Action Fraud (the UK's national centre for fraud and cybercrime) and are cooperating with international law enforcement.

4. Practical Advice for Victims and the Public

Nerd has been advised not to reply to anyone who emails us or sends requests in via our website about this scam, in case it's part of a broader reputation bombing or phishing campaign ... this goes against our nature as a service led organisation, but we need to see this out until the investigations are complete.

We believe in sharing knowledge to help the community build its collective digital armour. If you have interacted with the fraudulent site or received suspicious communications, please follow these steps immediately:

If You Have Lost Money or Shared Information

Stop All Contact: Cease all communication with the scammers immediately.
Contact Your Bank: Alert your bank or financial institution immediately if you have sent money or shared banking details.
Report the Crime: File an official report with the relevant national agency:
- UK Residents: Report the fraud to Action Fraud (via their website or on 0300 123 2040).
- US Residents: Report the cybercrime to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at IC3.gov and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) via econsumer.gov.

General Safety Measures

Verify the Source: Check the domain name carefully. Scammers use subtle misspellings or different extensions. Only trust www.nerddigital.co.uk.
Check the Email: All official correspondence from NERD Digital uses an email ending in @nerddigital.co.uk. Anything else is fake.
Be Skeptical of "Too Good" Offers: Fraudulent job postings often offer exceptionally high pay for minimal effort. If it sounds too good to be true, it is fraudulent.

Nerd is a family business (the name is the initials of the founder's family; Noel, Elliott, Rachel and Daisy) so this attack feels very personal to the Nerd family, its employees, partners, and customers. We appreciate the continued trust and support of our clients and community as we navigate and dismantle this external attack. By working together, we can make the internet safer for everyone. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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