Sure but these services are hardly new, tinyurl has been around for years and I am not aware of a study linking them to a material increase in phishing. Bottom

Sure but these services are hardly new, tinyurl has been around for years and I am not aware of a study linking them to a material increase in phishing. Bottom line with phishing is that people that fall for it are not technical and would click on a link regardless of whether it is short or full. This is also why in the anti-fraud business we don't place much reliance on measures like site to user authentication - they just don't work If you do like to see the full URL try, Chrome muse extension. It can shorten and expand URL's: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/digfdjelalmeldlplgcapchelgnlkomc?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/digfdjelalmeldlp...