Section 4.5. Similar Domain Names
4.5. Similar Domain NamesA 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:
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. Netcraft's 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. |
