Is Wannabe Beauty Guru a phishing website? Part 1

8 months ago
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Here is the comment I left on the reddit threads titled "favorite DIY youtuber" I was today years old when I found out this sub reddit is run by WANNABE BEAUTY GURU! I realized some of the comments I posted were missing so I went to check my email reply notifications and clicked on the reply and a flash of the WANNABE BEAUTY GURU logo was seen before taking me to the landing page. I thought for a second that artblonde2000 was WBG but then I clicked on other email notifications and the same thing happened so suffice to say, this is not a safe board to be on to speak your own opinions as 8 of my comments have now gone missing and its clear the people I was conversing with were WBG cult followers who wanted to silence my views. I do have just one question for you though Jessica-Is this the collaboration you were speaking about when you said you were working with Kim Pratt/Natural Kaos? You run the Reddit page and you will plug her Dermics website into the resources bar. Wow-now I see whats really going on here. I filmed it and will be placing it on my channels, have a good day! POSTNOTE-someone replied to this comment which I can no longer reply to as I had to block the OP however the reply person said this is a favicon which if you look up "favicon" on wikipedia, the criticism for it is that these links (which the OP provided in her post) are "part of phishing or eavesdropping attacks against HTTPS web pages" and "Since favicons are usually located at the root of the site directory on the server, they can be employed with some reliability to disclose whether a web client is logged into a given service. This works by making use of the redirect-after-login feature of many websites, by querying for the favicon in a redirect-after-login URL and testing the server response to discern whether the user is given the requested resource (which means they are logged in), or instead redirected to the login page (which means that they are not logged into the service". I am not tech savvy at all and am new to the reddit platform but something doesnt seem right to me and would love your feedback if you know what any of this means.

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