{"id":426,"date":"2025-11-19T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:50:27","slug":"journal-entry-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/journal-entry-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Entry # 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q: Can you spot three fake websites? [Refer Online Security Blogs, Public Awareness Sites, Academic Resources etc., and cite the source].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare the three fake websites to three real websites and highlight the features and similarities that identify each fake website as fraudulent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Don\u2019t generate or click on unwanted\/fake websites on your web browsers. Use examples from your sources to demonstrate what specific characteristics make these websites fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I honestly struggled to find fake websites to compare, mostly because I have a VPN, and am very paranoid when it comes to fake websites. I am very familiar with fake emails as I have a spam folder full of them. I know that one of the obvious things to assist with spotting a fictitious website is the name, usually similar but not the exact name. The same likeness can be said about emails as well. In addition, URLs may not have HTTPs listed in the web address, or the web addresses may have extra letters in the name. These types of examples could be like Stockxx.com instead of Stockx.com which is a sneaker website, or Linkedin.comm instead of LinkedIn.com. There were many cites that explained how to locate or avoid fake websites and have been listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memcyco.com\/5-recent-examples-of-fake-websites\/\">https:\/\/www.memcyco.com\/5-recent-examples-of-fake-websites\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/09\/expert-tips-on-how-to-spot-phishing-link.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/09\/expert-tips-on-how-to-spot-phishing-link.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Can you spot three fake websites? [Refer Online Security Blogs, Public Awareness Sites, Academic Resources etc., and cite the source]. Compare the three fake websites to three real websites and highlight the features and similarities that identify each fake website as fraudulent. Note: Don\u2019t generate or click on unwanted\/fake websites on your web browsers&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/journal-entry-6\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31268,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/melissadbaddie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}