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Paypal does its best to make all its emails look like phishing by using a quadrizillion of different origins (stuff like paypal-service.com, paypal-australia.co
by blattimwind 7y ago
Paypal does its best to make all its emails look like phishing by using a quadrizillion of different origins (stuff like paypal-service.com, paypal-australia.com.au, paypalcustomercommunication.com etc.) and routing links through another set of phishy origins and/or external third parties, and to top it all off they give bogus advice like "You can see this email is from Paypal because we are using your proper first and last name".
A lot of the bigger companies are guilty of this, Google is probably one of the few exceptions, since emails from Google tend to actually originate from ...@google.com, and their logins are all handled through accounts.google.com, unlike e.g. Microsoft which still has a handful of different login portals for the same account on non-microsoft.com domains (such as "msauth.net").
E.g. Dropbox sends emails from half a dozen or so origins, Microsoft uses a bunch, too, including shit like "microsoftmail.com" which rivals some of Paypal's choices for phishiness.