A simple and widely applied form of trickery for phishing attempts is to use domain names that look very similar to the original. Here are a few of many examples:
Real domain name | Fake domain name |
|---|---|
Companies such as PayPal and eBay try and protect themselves by
registering a range of domain names similar to their primary domain. But
a creative scammer will always be able to come up with some new twist on
the name that has not yet been registered. Netcraftâs web-based DNS
search tools (http://searchdns.netcraft.com) can
show the scale of the problem. Select the site
contains option, enter a name such as paypal, and see how many web servers are
reported that match. Some of these are legitimate but a lot of them look
very dubious.
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