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Words.zip: Fun Word Game or Phishing Risk?

1/14/2026

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Words.zip, created by Luke Schaef, is an interactive website that lets users search for words in a vast grid of letters.
Users highlight and submit words, and those words change color based on their frequency of discovery.
The site has also become a canvas for drawings, including humorous and inappropriate images.
The use of the .zip domain has raised security concerns, as experts associate it with phishing attacks.

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Story summary

Words.zip, created by Luke Schaef, is an interactive website that lets users search for words in a vast grid of letters.
Users highlight and submit words, and those words change color based on their frequency of discovery.
The site has also become a canvas for drawings, including humorous and inappropriate images.
The use of the .zip domain has raised security concerns, as experts associate it with phishing attacks.