Fake PayPal

from the typos.com dept

Here's a sneaky scam. Someone registered the domain PayPai.com and used it to trick users of PayPal.com into giving away their passwords. The scam artist would send emails telling PayPal users they had a large sum of money waiting for them, and would give them a URL to PayPaI, using a capital "i" at the end, which most people didn't notice wasn't an "l". Actually, in this font, the two are exactly the same... Of course, in other fonts, the l is identical to the #1, so perhaps that's another scam waiting to happen.
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    Brian, 24 Jul 2000 @ 2:49pm

    OH MY!

    Went to Network solutions...

    Congratulations! weiisfargo.com is available.

    This could be a huge problem!!!

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