Have you ever wanted to see if your friends would fall for phishing?

For this purpose, I have just created a website that you can link to instead of a harmful, real phishing site. #PhishWarn warns the user that he/she has just almost become a phishing victim.

⚠️ https://pixelcode.codeberg.page/phishwarn

Of course, PhishWarn is completely harmless! Also, it's #FOSS and its source code can be found on @codeberg, by the way: https://codeberg.org/pixelcode/pages/src/branch/master/phishwarn

@pixelcode @codeberg looks cool

@mattheus Thanks ☺️

@pixelcode I thought it would randomize URLs or something like that to make it seem legit. I guess you could just use a link shortener?

@mattheus Well, #PhishWarn's purpose is replacing an actual phishing website. If you want to test your friends, you would for example create a phishing e-mail yourself and link to PhishWarn.

e.g.:

Your Amazon account will be banned in 48 hours due to security concerns. To prevent this, log in to your account and validate your personal information.

[Validate personal info](https://pixelcode.codeberg.page/phishwarn)

@pixelcode I was just a little concerned cause it looks pretty fake knowing what Codeberg is and how to move my cursor over a link on a suspicious email. Probably just my tech person bias kicking in though.

@mattheus I mean, it'd be quite obvious without a link shortener 😅

@pixelcode I think I'll try it out on some friends. One without the shortner and one with. Maybe you should have a section where you go over how likely it is a less knowledgeable person would fall for it. You're not going to get enough people for it to be very scientific, but it would still be nice.