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Deciding whether a site or a link deserves your details, before you type them in.

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A message being started from a number copied from official material rather than from a chat window

Impersonation10 min read

The support chat that opened by itself

Because you arrived rather than being contacted, every instinct about unsolicited approaches is disabled — and searching for a helpline is how most people get there.

Account takeover / Impersonation
An app store listing on a phone, with the publisher name shown as a tappable link directly beneath the app title

Impersonation6 min read

Checking who actually published an app

A clone can copy the name, the icon and the screenshots. It cannot copy four years of unrelated software published under the same account, which is why the developer link is worth more than the review score.

متاجر التطبيقات / Impersonation
NASA shutdown notice in web browser

Website Safety8 min read

How to read a URL properly

The part of a web address that decides where you are going is not where most people look. Reading it correctly takes five seconds and defeats most phishing.

Impersonation / Online safety