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by dkersten 2796 days ago
Additionally, it could very well be that one of the letters in the domain name looks like but isn’t one of the normal English ascii characters. I’ve seen scans like this before — they are visually indistinguishable (or extremely close to, eg I’ve seen one that had a tiny dot above the character it was mimicking) from the real thing, but are a completely different Unicode character.

But if you don’t check the email headers, emails are easy to spoof, hell, I did it when I was a kid...