Hello Listers:
Phishers exploit foreign language feature
What started out as a browser feature to permit international domain names
has been found to encourage Internet fraud known as "phishing." The
problem revolves around characters that look alike but mean different
things.
A Web site could appear legitimate while the code does something different
in
the background. This problem affects only newer browsers. Internet Explorer
lacks support for international domain names.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050207/D883UIRO0.html
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