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> the only reason I noticed was because 1Password didn't offer to fill in my credentials.

Nice, I always hope this will save me but I never landed on such a phishing site. How did it happen for you?

About domain-based autofills, perhaps less so now than 5-10 years ago: it always seemed weird that the whole security industry seemed to say these plugins, or the browser's built-in password store, are dangerous because there were past vulnerabilities and any website you visit can exploit it. The way I see it: vulns get fixed, I just need to not be in the 1st wave of persons they target (risk type: plane crash, very small odds but sucks to be you); receiving phishing emails or messages happens constantly and apparently it works well enough to continue doing it and evading filters constantly (risk type: car crash, can happen and they get only the creds for the website being autofilled). Would recommend to anyone who then realises something is up when the autofill doesn't work, but ideally would have more evidence to back that up



I don't remember how I ended up there but I'm sure it was a fake email.

Just copy one of Coinbase's legit emails for something like "A withdrawal of $1,200 USD has been started" and you have the perfect bait.




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