Typosquatting

Typosquatting, is where you take an name, throw in a typo, and make it a thing. They are often used to link to scams or malware.

Examples

• The website "goggle.com" was related to the malware SpySheriff as noted by the YouTube video. As noted, it has been excluded by the Wayback Machine and today it resembles a scam site for free items.
• "agor.io" was a screamer that had Jeff the Killer tiled on the entire page.

Why It's Rotten

• It's often used to troll people, and sometimes download malware as well, especially to phish people's data.
• Why typosquat stuff in order to make something look cool? It always makes it worse.
• Because they are usually simple typos, people could unintentionally visit one of these sites if they commit the same typo.

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