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When I click on a tab my eye is on that spot of the screen. Just above the URL.

You'll have to get a very similar address to fool me, and good luck making the page look exactly the same as the original. The rounded buttons and differently aliased text on the attack page were enough for my red flags be raised.




It is not that hard to make it looks exactly the same. Just doing a "save page as" in most browsers will automatically store all the html, css, and images needed to render a page to your hard drive.

The only reason you noticed the different buttons and different text is cause the author decided to save himself some time and just replaced the page with a screenshot of how gmail is rendered on their computer.


And if it looks exactly the same, I think the possibility of noticing the incorrect URL is lower ..


>The rounded buttons and differently aliased text on the >attack page were enough for my red flags be raised.

That's because he used a screenshot...




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