Mistyping coffeescript.org as coffescript.org takes you to a phishing site

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by ColdHawaiian • 12 years ago
3 3 12 years ago

I was going to go check out the documentation for Coffeescript at http://coffeescript.org/, but I mistyped the url and used just 1 "e" instead of 2, so I ended up getting redirected to a PHP site that tries to impersonate Adobe and says that my Flash player is out of date.

So, just a warning for anyone else if this happens to them too. On a side note, is there anyone who I should report these sort of phishing scams too? I also still have the urls and url parameters for the sites that I got redirected to if anyone wants them for research.

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