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amneyesterday at 8:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

At this point it must be intentional that there's always something uncanny about these fake pages. That google logo is so old that if I see it I immediately know to get out of there.

So I find it fascinating how there's always the odd typo, the old logo, the impossible combination of iPhone needing an antivirus, etc and I refuse to believe is incompetence.


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flomoyesterday at 9:04 AM

Entirely intentional because they want to filter out anyone who can see how scammy it looks, so they don't waste their time. This is bulk spam stuff. If they are actually targeting you, it will look very real.

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efilifeyesterday at 10:41 AM

I found an e-mail spam service that said they needed to have typos on their website because it was better indexed for their target audience this way?

Weird