{"id":237,"date":"2024-11-24T08:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T08:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/?p=237"},"modified":"2024-11-24T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T08:17:58","slug":"week-6-can-you-spot-three-fake-websites-and-compare-the-three-fake-websites-to-three-real-websites-plus-showcase-what-makes-the-fake-websites-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/2024\/11\/24\/week-6-can-you-spot-three-fake-websites-and-compare-the-three-fake-websites-to-three-real-websites-plus-showcase-what-makes-the-fake-websites-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 6: Can you spot three fake websites and compare the three fake websites to three real websites, plus showcase what makes the fake websites fake?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1) PayPal<br>In late 2023 there were a series of websites that were mimicking PayPal logins. These fake login<br>URLs would be sent through messages with impersonations of PayPal URLs. The goal of these<br>fake pages was to gain the consumers trust and have them input their Login User ID and<br>password. Once consumers were done inputting their information,the masks behind the fake<br>profile would have customers&#8217; information basically gifted to them on a silver platter.<br>Fake URL: www.PayPa1.com<br>www.PayPail.com<br>Real URL: www.PayPal.com<br>In order to fool the customers , they mimic the real ID ,but slightly tweak them in order to bypass<br>the common and unsuspicious eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>2) Apple<br>Fake Apple Customer Service Websites are uncommon. It&#8217;s another to join the series of Apple<br>Fakes, products such as iphones, ipads, airpods and now websites. Such fake page examples use<br>SEO poisoning techniques to appear on top of Google results.<br>Fake URL: www.applelabsv.com<br>Such apple URLs wouldn&#8217;t add extra letters, let alone use anything other than www.Apple.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>3) NIKE<br>Nike is just one of many companies that have to deal with copycats and fake websites.<br>Fake URL: www.suewhitehurst.shop\/collections\/air-jordan-1<br>Real URL: www.Nike.com<br>Resources:<br>https:\/\/www.memcyco.com\/home\/5-recent-examples-of-fake-websites\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) PayPalIn late 2023 there were a series of websites that were mimicking PayPal logins. These fake loginURLs would be sent through messages with impersonations of PayPal URLs. The goal of thesefake pages was to gain the consumers trust and have them input their Login User ID andpassword. Once consumers were done inputting their information,the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/2024\/11\/24\/week-6-can-you-spot-three-fake-websites-and-compare-the-three-fake-websites-to-three-real-websites-plus-showcase-what-makes-the-fake-websites-fake\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":25891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nietocyse201s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}