The main way I find fake sites is if I’m looking for private information like court records or birth certificates. This is mainly because these sites will ask for a credit card and claim to have this information behind a paywall. While this may be true it’s never a good idea to use your banking information on a site like these. Usually, fake websites will have no lock in the search bar, a warning sign next to the URL, lots of pop-up ads, and don’t contain an ending like “org. Or edu.”