When is Calibra not Calibra, and IDN's

[chris]

Good reminder of the issues of IDN's and domains as trust signals.

When is Calibra not Calibra?

Users of cryptocurrency exchanges and online crypto wallet services are often reminded to check the domain name before they log in to make sure that they are on the actual website and not a fake scam site, but even that isn’t enough anymore.

When someone registers a domain name, typically the only characters allowed were the English alphabet (a-z), numbers, and the hyphen (-) symbol but an initiative launched in 2009 as part of ICANN’s IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) Program has made it possible to include characters from other languages as well.

The original intent of the IDN program was to allow people around the world to use domain names in their own native language.

Unfortunately, enterprising scammers are taking advantage of this to spoof legitimate domain names.

The focus of the article is about scammers selling Facebook Libra cryptocurrency, you can read the full piece here:

https://micky.com.au/scam-alert-website-offers-early-access-to-buy-facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency/