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  Blog 'burnfolder' » Wal-Mart's phishing site? ri-walmart.com Recently a site has popped up and it's been making the rounds supposedly revealing "secret" holiday specials for Wal-Mart. What struck me immediately though is the domain name - holiday.ri-walmart.com. Anybody who's examined a phish or two would immediately notice ri-walmart.com is not walmart.com. What's even fishier is the domain itself was just registered late September, and the registrant info doesn't match that of walmart.com. After more digging I decided this is for reals, since browsing to »www.walmart.com/secret redirects you to »holiday.ri-walmart.com/. I'm just confused why Wal-Mart would apparently register a whole new domain for this little site. You'd think they could simply create a new host on walmart.com. Most astute consumers are likely wise to phishing sites and know how to spot them, so why threaten an already shaky trust by creating an arbitrary domain like this? And besides, what is ri walmart supposed to mean, anyways?Burn Folder
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