Not sure how much people may get trapped and have sent bitcoin to this site
BitMixer clones have been around for a long time, copying the design and stealing funds. They only keep doing this, because people keep falling for it. It's simply profitable for the scammers, and they're very creative.
Yesterday I found this one:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimg.org%2F4an0k7sd5%2Ffake1.gif&t=665&c=WuAni49HGayovg)
For a few minutes, I thought BitMixer continued their business, and was looking for the "we are closed"-sign on the site. I consider myself to be an experienced user who doesn't easily fall for phishing sites, I checked the URL, and it took me a while to notice this:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimg.org%2F6f7dli4c9%2Ffake2.gif&t=665&c=N4uGA5oXG7oeTw)
It's just 1 pixel on my location bar!
So, if they continue this, we can expect chipmìxer.com, chipmíxer.com, chípmixer.com, chìpmixer.com and a couple more combinations in the future.
If you add î and ï it becomes a bit more obvious, but it's still a few pixels at most, and this gives much more possibilities. Add chiþmixer.com and a few more combinations, and the number of posibilities is practically endless. There are too many possible combinations to just register them all to prevent this from happening.
Thanks to adding weird characters in domain names!