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While athletes participating in the 2012 Olympics may be looking to cash in on some medals for the countries they proudly represent, some online users are seeking to cash in using a much more deceitful tactic.
According to a report released on Friday by cloud security company Zscaler, an astounding 80% of websites using the term “olympics” in their domain names represented spam and scams. It’s a tactic known as “typo squatting” where spammers register sites based on commonly mistyped web addresses.
For example, say you’re trying to access an actual Olympics-affiliated website such as nbcolympics.com but you accidently type “mbcolympics.” Oops! You’re then redirected to a fake page operated by spammers.
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Courtesy of: Ping! Zine Editor @ PingZine.com
This is seriously crazy 80%! .....as an industry I just wish there was a way to stop this nonsense. I guess starting at the registrar level will never happen which would be the only stopgap for this.
What are you thoughts?