Watch out: Calìbra.com isn’t the same as Facebook’s Calibra.com

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Opportunistic scammers are taking advantage interest in Facebook's cryptocurrency attempting to con people out of Ethereum with a fake Libra token pre-sale.The fake website is exploiting a strategy that uses unicode characters, that look similar to regular characters, to trick people into thinking the URL is correct. Scammers will usually embed this fake URL into hyperlinks to further obscure its true nature.

In this case, scammers are using unicode character U+00EC, otherwise known as “Latin small letter I with grave,” to change Calibra to Calìbra. Visually, a very minor difference. (When I first saw it, I thought


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