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rmtech on Feb 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam

It's pretty amazing that modern browsers don't flag .com. as a scam.

Is there any legitimate use for addresses like this?

It's also amazing that email software doesn't highlight fake link texts. There should be a rule that if the text looks like a URL then the actual URL has to match it exactly.

hobofan on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

I was under the impression that in quite a few countries they are quite widely used. E.g. .com.au in Australia.

rmtech on Feb 5, 2020 | | [–]

OK but outside of a few legitimate exceptions?

Surely it's reasonable to flag .com.blahblahblah.thing.spamdomain as fishy?

.com.au/ or any other actual country top level domain is ok

eru on Feb 5, 2020 | | [–]

Or .com.sg or .co.uk

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