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I dunno, I think the phishing scammers could just copy the banner and change the "how you know" part to include a big green check mark that says "this site was
by karaterobot 3y ago
I dunno, I think the phishing scammers could just copy the banner and change the "how you know" part to include a big green check mark that says "this site was verified to be the real USPS". I don't think most people who are falling for these phishing scams wouldn't also fall for a fake banner.
- bdw5204 3y agoA better solution would be for the government to seize the domains and arrest the scammers impersonating the post office or the IRS or any other governmental entity.
- Spivak 3y agoSeize the domains is doable but there's no guarantee the US has jurisdiction where the scammers are.
- bell-cot 3y agoLiterally true. OTOH, there's quite a bit that the US could do, in most cases. But that would require that the US actually care about the problem. Don't hold your breath.
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- patja 3y agoI just think the inconsistency is glaring. Would love to be a fly on the wall of what I expect/hope was a heated debate over why USPS, one of if not the top US government websites used by people in the US, should opt-out of the anti-phishing tactics used by most other US gov't sites. And for that matter, why does www.usps.gov redirect to the .com rather than vice-versa, and why does the bare usps.gov domain resolve to nothing? Who makes these decisions and how do they result in the opposite of what I (perhaps naively) would expect rational decision-makers to do?