05/01/2025
Be on the lookout for emails that look like a friend or contact. Especially be weary when looking at a free account such as gmail.com or others. Have been seeing the use of additional characters to simulate an email that is very similar to a true contact.
You'll be looking for something like this in the email address that when viewed in small font or text might trick us.
Some other combinations of letters look similar, for instance ⟨rn⟩ looks similar to ⟨m⟩, ⟨cl⟩ looks similar to ⟨d⟩, and ⟨vv⟩ looks similar to ⟨w⟩.
In certain narrow-spaced fonts (such as Tahoma), placing the letter ⟨c⟩ next to a letter such as ⟨j⟩, ⟨l⟩ or ⟨i⟩ will create a homoglyph, such as ⟨cj cl ci⟩ (⟨g d a⟩).
When some characters are placed next to each other, seen together at a glance they give the visual impression of another, unrelated character. A more precise way of saying this is that some typographic ligatures can look similar to standalone glyphs. For example, the ⟨fi⟩ ligature (of ⟨f⟩ and ⟨i⟩) can look similar to ⟨A⟩ in some typefaces or fonts. This potential for confusion is sometimes an argument made against the use of ligatures.
i.e. brad could be hard to pickup on as bracl in small font.
