The bold sender name is free text: anyone can be "PayPal Support". A six-check, one-minute routine for finding out who really sent that email, and where IP Tracker fits in.
A breach at the platform that sends a brand's newsletters means the sender address is genuinely theirs. What the Trezor and Brevo case shows about why the sender check can pass, and what to check instead.
Phishing emails are hiding invisible Unicode characters inside ordinary words, so your filter and your eyes read two different strings. Why the message body isn't evidence, and what to check instead.
Uma corrente no WhatsApp diz que receber R$ 0,01 por Pix esvazia sua conta. O Banco Central diz que nĂŁo. O risco real Ă© a mensagem seguinte, com link. Confira o domĂnio antes de tocar.
Fake relief funds go up within days of a disaster, and the FTC warned about them again in August. Why the age of the domain is the most useful thing on the screen, and how to check a donation page before you give.
Fake Minecraft client sites outranked the real projects across Google, Bing, Brave Search and DuckDuckGo in August. Why the top search result is a ranking and not a safety check, and what to look at before you run the file.
The FBI warns of fake IC3 agents in your DMs and deepfake videos of FBI officials, all aimed at people who already lost money. The one check a convincing video can't beat: the address bar.
Fake tuition portals, loan-forgiveness offers, dorm listings, textbook deals and fundraiser texts all cluster in August. Five links worth checking before any money moves.
Scammers now text that you owe a tariff or customs fee before a package arrives. Here's why a real USPS text never contains a link, and how to check the one you got.
Fake sign-in pages look perfect now. Over half of brand phishing hits five logins you use every week. The giveaway is the domain — here's the one thing to check.
Scammers spin up thousands of fake travel sites (booking-cn, airbnb-ca and friends) that copy the real sign-in page. Check the domain before you type your card in.
The new scam asks you to just reply YES instead of clicking. Before you engage, check the recruiter's email domain against the company's real site.
Bank impostors caused the highest losses of any impersonation scam in 2025, per the FTC. The fastest tell a text is fake: the sender's domain. Here's how to check.
Fake QR stickers on parking meters, mailers, and packages route to lookalike payment pages. Your phone shows the address before it opens it — how to read that preview and check the domain.
A mensagem parece dos Correios, o site Ă© um clone e a "taxa alfandegária" vai direto para o golpista. Como ler o domĂnio e conferir o link antes de pagar qualquer coisa.
The FBI warns scammers have spun up lookalike FIFA sites — like wvvw-fifa.com, where the "w" is two v's — selling tickets that don't exist. How to read the address before your card comes out.
Chatbots sometimes make up a brand's web address. Scammers register those invented names and turn them into phishing sites. How "phantom squatting" works, and how to check a domain a bot hands you.
Fake late fees and a 12-hour deadline are designed to make you tap before you think. The sender's domain almost never matches your real toll agency — how to read it before you pay a cent.
One character separates paypal.com from paypa1.com, and in many fonts you can't see it at all. A plain-English look at the letter-swap trick and how to check for it.
Read paypall.com fast and your brain sees PayPal. How typo domains hide behind skim-reading, and a ten-second letter-by-letter check that breaks the trick.
That link really says paypal.com, and it still isn't PayPal. How scammers bury real brand names inside addresses they own, and the reading habit that spots the trick.
The email claims twenty years of history; the domain was registered on Tuesday. How to check a domain's age, and how to read it without jumping to conclusions.
A domain can look exactly like apple.com and be something else entirely, one letter borrowed from another alphabet. Here's how the invisible lookalike trick works and how to unmask it.
The red warning screen is a strong signal. No warning isn't a clean bill of health. What Google's dangerous-sites list catches, what slips through, and how to layer your checks.