An AIT guy with the nickname eaglebirdman on Reddit talked about his pet project, which shortens links and displays them very similar to fraudulent ones.
An AIT guy with the nickname eaglebirdman on Reddit talked about his pet project, which shortens links and displays them very similar to fraudulent ones.
«I created CreepyLink, a URL shortening service that creates the most suspicious links. For example, you can also visit CreepyLink by going to https://c1ic.link/LOcnJ0_login_page_2.exe», the developer said.
According to him, the project was inspired by a colleague who kept talking about a website called ShadyUrl with similar functionality. «That website has been down for a few years, so I decided to create an alternative», eaglebirdman explained.
CreepyLink turns links into suspicious ones that lead experienced users to think about phishing and other types of online fraud. For example, the service turned a link to dev.ua into https://twitter.c1ic.link/iiCyZZ_flash_games.
Recall that in the summer of 2025, Google stopped supporting links in the goo.gl format — they now give a 404 error. This is the final stage of the complete shutdown of the Google URL Shortener link shortening service.
