>> You thought you wanted "Google Inc" but that doesn't even exist, a scammer could register it,
No, they wouldn't be able to register Google Inc and most likely not any derivate either like they do with domain names. Setting up a company is not that easy as you might think. EV implemented right would make most(90%) of the scams unfeasible.
>> my real point here is that you have no idea what you expected to see in this EV information, so who cares?
Well, that's one of the issues that I mentioned and it's an UI issue not an EV issue.
>> If you want the company behind Google.com, don't go to Google.some.other.example and hope to somehow check that's the right company, just go to Google.com
Why would I go to google.com if the link I received in my email has a gmail.com, accounts.google.co.uk or mailchip.com/clickAnalytics=google.de ? Google has many domains so why this one would not be legit?
> Setting up a company is not that easy as you might think.
In Ian Carroll's EV experiments it cost him $177 and took 48 hours, to create a new company named "Stripe" in the US and get an EV certificate for it.
So, a lot easier than getting tickets to see a popular musical, but not as easy as buying a McDonalds burger. Is that what you had in mind with "not that easy as you might think" ?
Both the US and the UK have a _lot_ of what are called "brass plate" companies, that is the company doesn't really exist in that country at all, it's just a name plate (made of brass usually) on the wall at some cheap lawyer's office. The real owners of the business will usually never have even visited the country, none of their real assets are present, they just have a legal presence to achieve some other purpose. Setting these up costs under $100 each if you know what you're doing.
I would assume that's a real PayPal web site because PayPal are notoriously bad at this stuff and it's the sort of bone-headed thing they'd do. But if my mother asked about it I'd sigh and suggest she tries the actual PayPal.com and see if there's a link to this "prepaid card" idea from their site. That link might be bad too (PayPal are terrible enough at this that they've done idiot things like advertise sites actually run by scammers because they didn't realise those sites weren't theirs...) but it's the best she can really expect to do when dealing with PayPal.
No, they wouldn't be able to register Google Inc and most likely not any derivate either like they do with domain names. Setting up a company is not that easy as you might think. EV implemented right would make most(90%) of the scams unfeasible.
>> my real point here is that you have no idea what you expected to see in this EV information, so who cares?
Well, that's one of the issues that I mentioned and it's an UI issue not an EV issue.
>> If you want the company behind Google.com, don't go to Google.some.other.example and hope to somehow check that's the right company, just go to Google.com
Why would I go to google.com if the link I received in my email has a gmail.com, accounts.google.co.uk or mailchip.com/clickAnalytics=google.de ? Google has many domains so why this one would not be legit?
Question for you: Is this a legit paypal website? How do you know? https://www.paypal-prepaid.com/account/login