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codeforces.net: scam or real?
By Xylenox, history, 9 months ago, In English

I found this website codeforces.net, and I was about to sign in until I realized the url was different. Is this an official website, or a phishing scam?

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I think this is what you are looking for: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/61719

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    This is a CodeForces API wrapper, not a whole website/mirror...

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      If so, what is "https://codeforces.net/" after all? Backup of Codeforces?

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        possibly a fake website to steal people's CF logins. i ran into one of these one time when searching a problem. i didn't log in thankfully

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I opened the browser's dev tools to check the code of both domains. Noticed that we also have codeforces.org :).

Both website (_.com_ and .net) uses the same assets and code from .org, so I think .net is just a proxy to .com or both are proxies to some hidden server.

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    are you a guy with a scary pfp? (I know you're calling for people to care about your people, but every time I see that photo, I feel very uncomfortable.)

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      You can easily get rid of the scary pfp using your adblocker's "block element" feature.

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        tks, never known that

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I encountered this phishing site when I was searching for some past contest. Just in case, I reported it to Bing and Google search

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