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what's a phishing site? is what i'd like to know first of all

I remember when someone came across armorbot.com and armorgame.com

Someone made a website with a homepage that looked just like AG. Then when you logged in, your information would be sent to the man who created the phishing site, and then he would have your information.

Phishing is "fishing" for information.

Throwing a bait out, (a website that seems legit) and catching the fish that are stupid enough to bite on it (submitting their information).

I'm pretty sure most phishing sites ask for your credit card number. I doubt a "fake" gaming website would do that since there is no way the could be sneaky enough to involve your credit card in games.

armorbot.com is one of our sites.

Kevin4762, you'd be surprised what people will do with a username/password. Since most online users are "lazy" and use the same password on just about every site they visit, or use extremely easy passwords like &quotassword" or "qwerty", once they have your username and password, they can try it on several other web sites. Who knows, maybe the same password you use here on AG is the same password as your Email account, or PayPal account, or online banking... you see where this is leading.

Personally, I use LastPass.com -- it's free, they have plugins for several OS/browser combinations, and it can generate very strong passwords and then remember them for you, so you don't even need to know what your password is. All you need to remember is one very strong password to unlock your LastPass "vault" and it does the rest for you. You can even go so far as to buy a $30 USB device that authenticates you to LastPass so you don't even need to remember that one really strong password... of course, if you lose that USB device, you're in trouble...

But from which point is a site considered Phishing, from the point they call themselves the same name and claim they are the same person as the real place, or already if they have the same name, or perhaps even when they host armorgames games without authorisation? I'd like to know, for future cases

I think a phishing site is defined as a site that tries to get your password for something. That info can then be sold to someone else, who can do with it whatever they want.

Hosting Armorgames would be kind of strange... no real gain there, I think - only a lot of wasted server bandwidth.

On all of those sites I didn't see anywhere where you could sign in so they wouldn't be phishing sites.

On all of those sites I didn't see anywhere where you could sign in so they wouldn't be phishing sites.

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what was this "armorbot.com?"

what was this "armorbot.com?"