An entire industry of Cybersquatters exists today. These slime bags are too lazy to build their own sites, are legally, morally, and ethically challenged. Rather, they choose to leach off registered Trademarks with their pervasive “typo” domains and often use redirects to their own low life sites. Many of these sites also use Affiliate Programs to earn money so these myopic Networks who are only interested in a quick buck effectively become “enablers” with these cyber thieves. In this installment I present a real world case and tips to prevent this action.
Abuse on the Internet and in the brick-and-mortar world always increases during the holidays. Although we have previously covered Spam, charity fraud, Phishing, Identity Theft, and other slimy procedures, we feel obligated to cover some of these issues again and include a few additional tips.