SpoofStick Detects Phishing and Spoofed Websites

SpoofStick makes it easier to spot a spoofed website by prominently displaying only the most relevant domain information.

Clarifying about spoofed sites and phishing they say

“A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. The attacker then tries to trick people into going to the spoofed site by sending out fake email messages or posting links in public places – hoping that some percentage of users won’t notice the incorrect URL and give away important information. This practice is sometimes known as “phishing”.”

I get many bulk spam emails daily, but my gmail email account has a powerful antispam mechanism which diverts them all to the Spam folder. There are several email from Senders like “Ebay manager” with subjects like “update your ebay information”; if you open the email, the link also says “Click here to Update Info” the same thing, so does the status bar at the bottom of the browser as well as the title of the link by hovering the mouse over it, and if you click it leads to a webpage which resembles the ebay login page in every way except that the url in the browser url bar is something else and not ebay. So beware of such phishing efforts. This is where Spoofstick is useful as an anti phising tool as it reminds you boldly on which site you are despite what it looks like. Download SpoofStick for Internet Explorer or SpoofStick for Firefox.