On 2022-11-18 at 11:38 -0800, Ken Simpson wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I've seen the raw email; it did come from PayPal. PayPal needs to get > better at recognizing brand images so that this kind of impersonation > is more difficult on their platform. No doubt they are already > working on that. > > Ken
I don't think this is really a computer vision problem. The brand is there in plain text: "Walmart". The problem is the old "Who is allowed to use name X" ? In this case, to issue invoices. Only "Walmart Inc.", the american corporation? Also their subsidieries in other countries? What if I create a company named "Walmart" in Pretoria, Nicosia or Yakutsk? What about companies trading as Foo where they actually have a completely different legal name? Maybe for internationally protected brands, it would be easier to block them. Once they filter that I suspect the next would be for « ꓪΑ1ΜΑꓣŦ », but one step at a time. Detecting homoglyphs does seem more tractable. Regards _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
