Journal Entry #6

The differences between real websites and scam websites can be difficult to notice for some people, but after looking at them for a long time, I am able to notice the differences. For example, in scam emails about my Apple account, the URLs usually look like “www.appple.com”, Apple is spelled wrong in the url. Also, many of these sites use http instead of https, which is a clue that they are not secure sites. Many of these scam sites also ask for things like my Social Security number, or are filled with grammar errors, which the real Apple website would never have. Also, the fonts on these sites look incorrect and there is usually too much spacing between words, or the images used are very low resolution, which would also not happen on the real Apple site.

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