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Fake PayPal Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-hate-when-that-happens dept.

CharlieG writes: "Just a friendly warning as a followup to all the PayPal talk of yesterday. It seems that there is a scam going on based out of South Ural, Romania. They have created a site that looks exactly like Paypal, but is PayPai.com." Much more harmful than all the Slashdot typo sites (those only cause me to get dozens of flames a week for framing Slashdot: this one could actually steal your credit card!)

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  1. Abusers of Fonts by drenehtsral · · Score: 4

    Yeah, i've been getting spammed by somebody who's got an address at hotmaiI.com and they are trying to do the same sort of thing. What they are doing is abusing the fact that a lot of GUI based users run their systems with all-but-unreadable proportional spaced slick fonts, and a capitol 'I' is often only one pixel different from a little 'l', and often their font anti-aliasing smoothes that out to a 25% tone difference on one pixel, and who'd be the wiser...
    I happened to notice this because i use a high contrast decent-sized courier font on my machine, and i run PINE in an KDE terminal window, so it stuck out like a sore thumb.
    As always the user is the weakest link in security...

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  2. Here is a mirror. by BMonger · · Score: 5

    Here's a mirror for PayPai.com. Just go to http://www.paypal.com. :)