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To confuse users further, the fake site copies the warning, but accuses
the WTO of being the impostor.
The name of the fake website is the acronym for the General Agreement
on Trade and Tariffs, a body which was replaced by the WTO in 1995.
The WTO is preparing for a key ministerial meeting next month in the
Gulf state of Qatar to try to launch a new round of trade talks after
failure at the last meeting in 1999 in Seattle that was besieged by
anti-globalization protesters.
The WTO faced a similar Internet attack before Seattle.
Supporters of the 142-nation trade body have urged it to be more active
in responding to ``dirty tricks'' by anti-globalization activists.
The Google Internet search engine lists the gatt.org site as belonging
to RTMark, an Internet community (http://www.rtmark.com/) that says it
``supports the sabotage (informative alteration) of corporate products''
in order to ``improve culture.''
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