You're gonna need some help recognizing this phishing scam
 

You're gonna need some help recognizing this phishing scam
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How do you spot a phishing scam when the URL looks perfectly legit?*

An old phishing technique has recently popped back up in the news, and it has the potential to fool some folks ** matter how many times they inspect a URL for typos.

SEE ALSO: Your internet data is absolutely a national security issue


Phishing works like this: Some fool sends people an email that asks readers to please click on this link or download this thing. The person sends the link from a URL with a (theoretically) clever typo (think yhaoo.com instead of yahoo.com). But this other kind of phishing scheme — called a homograph attack — sends an email from a URL that looks nearly identical to the real thing, replacing some the letters with similar ones from other alphabets.* Read more...

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