Typosquatting: Fraud’s new frontier

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Abstract: While most people have probably heard of cybersquatting, “typosquatting” may be less familiar. But these schemes — which take advantage of users’ tendency to misspell a domain name — can make just about any organization, along with visitors to its website, the victims of fraud. This article shows how typosquatting is used for fraud and corporate espionage.