If you use one of these browsers, this link may work if you have international domain name support turned on. It is NOT the real Paypal but a spoofed website. This won't work on IE.

 

Fake Paypal

 

Real Paypal

How, is that possible? Meeow.

The first one is nothing except meoow

I was thinking it could have been paypa1.com, because in arial the 1 looks like the l.

 

But it isn't.

how it do that?

International character sets have alot of characters that look exactly like the Latin ones we use. The first link is actually for "http://www.p & #1072 ; ypal.com/" but it looks exactly the same and will direct you to the wrong site if your browser has IDN support.

 

I recommend you turn off IDN if this happens. The full explanation is here

International character sets have alot of characters that look exactly like the Latin ones we use.  The first link is actually for "http://www.pаypal.com/" but it looks exactly the same and will direct you to the wrong site if your browser has IDN support.

 

I recommend you turn off IDN if this happens.  The full explanation is here

 

I get meoww again.

It's the a in pay. It's an international character.

how do i disable IDN in firefox? i did that change network.enableIDN to false and i can still see that fake page.

This is the actual character being used. Looks like an a, eh?

 

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0430/index.htm

how do i disable IDN in firefox? i did that change network.enableIDN to false and i can still see that fake page.

 

There's a fix mentioned near the bottom of this page that supposedly works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

I get meoww again.

 

I believe you are supposed to. Look at the domains of each site you click.