Coffee shop wifi trap almost cost me my login info

I was at a Starbucks in Austin last Tuesday and their free wifi asked me to log in through a weird portal. It looked legit with the Starbucks logo and everything but the URL was off by one letter. I almost typed in my email password before I noticed the address was starbucks-freewifi.co instead of .com. I noped out of there and used my phone hotspot instead. Has anyone else run into fake wifi login pages that looked this real?

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derek7815d ago

Wait, you said the URL was starbucks-freewifi.co instead of .com. But wouldn't a real fake site more likely be starbuckswifi.com or something? The .co thing is sketchy for sure, but I've seen scammers use .cc or .xyz way more often lately. I ran into one at a Denver airport cafe last month that had the exact same logo but the page was loading a second too slow. Gave me enough time to spot the misspelled "Starbucks" in the fine print.

ninah1014d agoMost Upvoted

wait catching it bc the page loaded slow is actually wild, i wouldve never thought to check that. also hold up they really put a hyphen in starbucks-freewifi?? that sounds like the most obvious trap ever lmaoo