This fraud brought to you by MS
As I have noted before, I do not use Microsoft’s products to browse the internet or review my email because of the lack of reasonable security features. URL masking is a feature brought to you by Internet Explorer, and opens up IE users to a whole new area of ripoffs:
Until now, it’s been easy to spot a paypal fraud site by the telltale URL. But here’s a Paypal fraud page that uses a Microsoft feature/bug (take your pick) to overwrite the scammer’s URL with a legitimate-looking URL. If you make the page small, you’ll be able to see the fraudster’s URL. (Since I have a Mac, I can’t try this out myself to see what actually happens.) Link (Warning: do NOT enter your paypal information here — unless you want to be swindled)
via boingboing.
