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As for the .me link I wonder if there is an issue with the TLD in question and they're using a .me domain as an intermediary.
Julian On 20/09/18 15:28, Eion MacDonald wrote:
To DC Lug, slightly OT Dear Folk, 20180920 Help please. To understand why URLs differ and domains change in loading smartphone apps. Bank apps on mobile phones or laptop OSes. Can you explain and help me understand. I tutor some folk at local library, one person, learning computing on library PC, who has a ‘smartphone’ as her only computing device. [I have no experience on a smartphone as I do not use one.]. Problem arose when she was told by her bank to download its app and they sent an email to her. She showed me the email. I could not decipher the actual email originator as only the bank logo shown as as sender [RBS]. However in the email they advised her to go to a specific URL which was *not* a bank domain. I assumed a scam and asked her to delete, as it is always possible for her to go to bank in person to get help or have email resent. I later investigated the bank site from OpenSUSE on my own machine. The ‘click through’ to get a mobile bank app opens (very rapidly and closes) as an “.me” domain then goes to a URL “app.bank.co.uk” site. It was the “.me” domain that caused me problems with believing the email from the bank . The “.me” domain in Ireland, seems to be third party server doing what? Can anyone advise how these work? Data: Bank is Royal Bank of Scotland Wanted: load bank’s mobile app to smartphone. Email to her said download from: Quote http.// m.onelink.me /d3ka1abe Unquote (spaces inserted to avoid hyperlink) Why a domain “.me” for a bank? My Checking on RBS site from openSUSE gave a rapid opening and closing of a “.me” link to arrive at at a rbs.co.uk domain where it offered four apps one each for Android, Windows, iPad-Iphone ,and the old Canadian OS. Thus the “.me” seems to get to correct destination to download an app, but why is this not directly on the RBS website, and why RBS showed her the “.me” URL. Sites found: RBS mobile app website to download is given by a click through button (hiding the ".me" link). RBS click through goes to (blanks inserted) https:// go.onelink .me /834F?pid=Brochureware&c=R_GTA_Int_Mob_RBT12018_CTA1_a1&af_dp=None&af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fapplink.rbs.co.uk?intcam=R_GTA_Int_Mob_RBT12018_CTA1_a1 Following gets to: https:// applink.rbs. co.uk /text-mobile-application/traffic/8406502 From another place on RBS website to get a mobile bank app the click through is. https:// go.onelink. me/834F?pid=Brochureware&c=R_GTA_Int_Mob_DABROCHURE0418_DEMO_a2&af_dp=None&af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fapplink.rbs.co.uk?intcam=R_GTA_Int_Mob_DABROCHURE0418_DEM Can you explain why bank does not redirect to bank site as opposed to a “.me” site? Trying to get data on “onelink.me” presents warnings due their site insecurity by different search engines and Mozilla Firefox. What do I need to know, that at present I do not know? Thanks in advance, Eion MacDonald.
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