This is for those who are still in the dark about phishing.
Look at the picture below and pay attention to the address bar.
If it's the real www.paypal.com, then the address bar will show exactly that after http:// eg http://www.paypal.com and not numbers (which are IP addresses) like the ones in the picture below. You can also confirm if the IP address of the site you want to visit by going to this site. There, choose LOOKUP and enter the URL in the box.
For www.paypal.com, the results are these
IP address: 66.211.168.193
Host name: www.paypal.com
66.211.168.193 is from United States(US) in region North America
Therefore, by going to http://66.211.168.193 and http://www.paypal.com should bring you to the true site.
Clearly, the IP address 213.242.251.60 in the picture, which differs from official records as above, are fake and pointing to a machine to harvest your real account details.
The details of this IP address are as below
Also, reputable sites like paypal will not have login page with no security. Secured login page will start with https:// eg https://www.paypal.com. Sometimes even fake sites do provide a secured page, so to ensure that you are visiting the right secured page, click on the security tab, usually an icon of a lock at bottom of your browser, to verify that the certificate assigned to the site is authentic.
I will let the right guys in the community know about this site to let them taste their own medicine. Or you could visit it for fun and enter nonsense in the username/password box because they will read it later
Look at the picture below and pay attention to the address bar.
If it's the real www.paypal.com, then the address bar will show exactly that after http:// eg http://www.paypal.com and not numbers (which are IP addresses) like the ones in the picture below. You can also confirm if the IP address of the site you want to visit by going to this site. There, choose LOOKUP and enter the URL in the box.
For www.paypal.com, the results are these
IP address: 66.211.168.193
Host name: www.paypal.com
66.211.168.193 is from United States(US) in region North America
Therefore, by going to http://66.211.168.193 and http://www.paypal.com should bring you to the true site.
Clearly, the IP address 213.242.251.60 in the picture, which differs from official records as above, are fake and pointing to a machine to harvest your real account details.
The details of this IP address are as below
| IP address | 213.242.251.60 |
| Location |  RU, Russian Federation |
| City | Yekaterinburg, 71 - |
Also, reputable sites like paypal will not have login page with no security. Secured login page will start with https:// eg https://www.paypal.com. Sometimes even fake sites do provide a secured page, so to ensure that you are visiting the right secured page, click on the security tab, usually an icon of a lock at bottom of your browser, to verify that the certificate assigned to the site is authentic.
I will let the right guys in the community know about this site to let them taste their own medicine. Or you could visit it for fun and enter nonsense in the username/password box because they will read it later
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