Friday, March 9, 2012

Missing Dot Leads to Domain Name Scams

These days, punctuation doesn't seem to be considered as important as it used to be, but forgetting to put a single dot in an email address could lead you into the realm of dastardly domain name scams.

It's the latest twist to a series of scams in which crooks set up websites with names that are very similar to genuine sites.

(For those who don't know what a domain name is, it's simply the name of a website, like "scambusters.org".)

Click here to read the full article. 



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