Guest limerockcodger Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 10+ years as a user of their services. Entrusting my money to them. Many, many clients that I have told to trust them, and have set up to use this business. A trust that just evaporated in one email asking for my additional business for their "credit card". (Not something I need or want, but that is SO not my point of outrage.) Now I know how to use "whois" (my clients don't!!) , and I also know to NOT trust "hinkey" domain names and especially not odd email reply to addresses (and tell my Luddite clients to do so). SO WHY did I just have to spend a half an hour to convince myself that e.paypal.com, and EVEN WORSE communications-paypal.com were LEGIT.. because of some dumb son of a bitch who was SO SHARP they could cut themselves. ONE URL ONE DOMAIN = trust STUPID SUBDOMAIN NAMES = Nigerian $$ scams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Krause Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Ouch.... That sucks. So did you give your credit card to a PHISHING site or did you figure it out before it happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest limerockcodger Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Oh, I figured it out... I am pissed, though, and righteously. It looked hinkey from the git-go, but I spent a good half hour "verifying" that the goddamned subdomains WERE real. And it made me wonder what the clients I had advised to be wary of such weird or unusual domains would do if they were confronted with the same scenario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Krause Posted April 13, 2012 Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 Yeah, iv'e been wary of subdomains before. They just look hokey. You just need to keep a close eye on the final .com URL like -- customer.paypal.com.ng Yeah.... run away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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