Re: How do phishers do this?
ok another thing these bastards can do is use non standard alphabetic characters that display on most people's computers as a character for the roman alphabet. for example instead of chase.com they register chàse.com and in the links maybe you don't tell the difference and with some characters/fonts it's very hard to tell, but if you click the link it goes to chàse.com which is a scam.
so to be extra special safe do two things
- don't click the link, type the address of the web site and find your stuff from there
- when you fill in this info there should always be a closed lock on your browser showing that it's secure, make sure it is, and you can click on it to view the security certificate, this isn't 100% because they can create some shill company called chase and get the cert, but if it says "r.j.'s exotic services" you'll at least know better
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