Hi Maniam, It's really interesting how cyber-tricks continue to evolve to favour the "smart". Unfortunately, there are some registries that actually support non-ASCII domain names and that worsens the plight of internet users who are likely to miss this tiny but very important detail, leading to their fall. Worth sharing. Sincerely, Samuel Osei Mensah e: ads@netbuzzafrica.com | 7M@pivotdigitalmedia.tk | News Media <https://netbuzzafrica.com/> | Creative Media <https://pivotdigitalmedia.tk/> | Digital Radio <https://radio.netbuzzafrica.com/> | [image: Facebook icon] <https://facebook.com/samcillabaakojr> [image: LinkedIn icon] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/samcillabaakojr> [image: Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/samcillabaakojr> [image: Youtbue icon] <https://www.youtube.com/netbuzz> [image: Instagram icon] <https://www.instagram.com/samcillab2131> [image: Logo] <https://pivotdigitalmedia.tk/> [image: Banner] The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future. On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:27 PM S Maniam via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:

Greetings,

pls see below information:-

*Spot the Difference?*

*gtbank.com* is not the same as *gtbαnk.com*

*ecobank.com* is not the same as *ecobαnk.com* (the first one is correct, the second one is from hackers)

The "a" in the later url is a cyrillic alphabet.

An average internet user can still fall for this. Be careful for every mail requiring you to click on a link.

Please Stay Alert

Cyber attacks have gone steps higher.

pls share your thoughts. Is such combination of ASCII and IDN scripts allowed.

regards

Maniam

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