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Verified by Visa is a fucking joke.

In Canada it pops up a browser window that prompts for various personal information and its URL points at ... drumroll ... https://secureserver.net. If that's not by the book appearance of a phishing site, I don't know what is.

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It's actually https://www.securesuite.net.

I very suspicious of that the first time I was subjected to Verified by Visa.

The other thing that infuriated me about Verified by Visa is that when you are forced to sign up for it, it thanks you for choosing to sign up. The only choice I had was to sign up or not make the transaction!

Really? Because SecureServer.net is a domain used in GoDaddy's webmail:

https://login.secureserver.net/

I typed it from memory, so it might be off. Regardless though - the URL had "secure" and "server" in it, but no "visa".

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