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In April 2005, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission warns of a domain name renewal scam where domain name holders have received a letter that looks like an invoice for the registration or renewal of a domain name, where the domain name in question is very similar to your actual domain name except has a different ending, for example ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Domain hijacking is analogous with theft, in that the original owner is deprived of the benefits of the domain, but theft traditionally relates to concrete goods such as jewelry and electronics, whereas domain name ownership is stored only in the digital state of the domain name registry, a network of computers.
Domain name spoofing – Phishing attacks that depend on falsifying or misrepresenting an internet domain name; Doppelganger domain – Form of domain name hijack; IDN homograph attack – Visually similar letters in domain names; Misdialed call § Toll-free numbers – Similar attacks on vanity phonewords; Mousetrapping – Digital marketing tool
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The same scammers appears to be run under various names: Various domains: If you are aware of any additional ones, please add them. --Hm2k 11:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC) [] ...
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Spoofing is the act of deception or hoaxing. [2] URLs are the address of a resource (as a document or website) on the Internet that consists of a communications protocol followed by the name or address of a computer on the network and that often includes additional locating information (as directory and file names). [3]