More countries than ever require tourists to apply for a visa to enter. They should be applied for via official avenues, such as government websites, but our investigation has found that Google is allowing fraudsters to pay for their fake websites to appear at the top of search results.

In this episode of Which? Shorts, we reveal what happened when we clicked on those adverts, as we found out what scammers are doing to get their hands on our cash.

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