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Re: [Sigia-l] Subdomain usability

From: Davezilla (davezilla_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 15:30:53 EDT


On 6/6/06, Eric Reiss <elr_at_e-reiss.com> wrote:
>
> work. That's why phishing and various PayPal cons work so well. When
> the site owner isn't listed first, only the experienced web users can
> see through the ruse.

Entirely too true. Remember when someone (Ziya?) posted that phishing
scam test to the list back in the winter? Even the employees of the
companies failed it. I would tend to agree that users do not know the
difference between a domain and a subdomain. Most users still type
full URLs into Google.

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