Q: Can you spot three fake websites and compare the three fake websites to three real websites, plus showcase what makes the fake websites fake?
A: For this first website, this showcases a fake logon page for the website PayPal. While not appearing like a fake webpage at first, if you look at the search bar the webpage uses “paypal.com.security.alert.confirmation-manager-security.com/signin?country.x=UK&locale.x=en_UK” as it’s web address. Not only is the first part of this suspicious for its usage of the .com domain twice in its web address, but it also includes information about where the cite is being accessed from in the “signin?country.x=UK&locale.x=en_UK” portion of the address, which a typical web address would never track. Based of the context for the web address, this seems like a fake website in addition to a phishing website that someone made, possibly as way to get a customer to “fix an issue” or to confirm something with their PayPal account, since PayPal as the name implies is a website that acts as a payment platform.
A: For this second website, this was a fake search engine created to mimic Google, and on first glance it doesn’t look very different at all from Google. However, when clicking around on the website, namely the privacy and terms tab at the bottom, the website doesn’t take you to any of these particular options, and instead takes you back to this initial screen, whereas the real Google search engine doesn’t do this and takes you to the particular screens. Due to this weird error in the system, it’s clear that this is a fake Google webpage.
A: Lastly, this is a fake website for the company Amazon, albeit an older version of the website. Once more, on first glance nothing looks too out of the ordinary until you look at the search bar, where everything looks normal except for the spelling of amazon, spelled like “amazonx”. Even for a simple grammatical error, this completely ruins the validity of the website since websites from real companies like Amazon don’t feature any grammatical errors like this. This is a clear indication that this not only is a fake website, but a website intentionally trying to phish customers for their information.
