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Re:Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement by hbosch on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:03PM (#20528369)
My mortgage company uses similar URLs that I always associate with scams. It's something like PayMyMortgage.com or something along those lines.
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Re:Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement by niij on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:32PM (#20530915)
I had 401k through https://www.yourinvestmentaccount.com/ at one point. So sketchy.

They had a virtual keyboard with only 16 choices of chars to type your password in on there at one point.

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Re:Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement by astura on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:18PM (#20528511)
Is it https://yourmortgageonline.com/?

That site looks super sketchy.

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Re:Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement by jrockway on Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:52PM (#20530625)
I've also had benefits through something like "mybenefitsportal.com" or something (made up, I forget the real URL).

I don't understand why companies do this. I completely understand that my health insurance is through "Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield" or whatever. So I expect to go to your corporate website and click "log in". If you think your website is so bad that it will damage your corporate brand... well maybe you should work on that.

If it's an SEO thing, that's also shady. If Bank A has "myonlinebillpay.com" and Bank B has "easyonlinebillpay.com"... how am I going to end up at the right one?

It makes me mad.

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