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Bitcoin Scammer Claims to Have Made $760K Through Dark Web Typosquatting - Mad-Architect - 04-03-2019 A Bitcoin fraudster has claimed that he made 200 BTC from through "typo-squatting", this equates to the ballpark of 760,000 USD. This was all done by "typo-squatting", this is where the fraudster creates a fake domain that users visit and then any money from them is piped to the fraudster. This very prevalent on the Dark Web, where a large sum of money is made from typo-squatting. This is mostly used to target those who misstype their domain name address. The discovery was made by security researcher Van Riper of Shadow Search_. Original article can be found here. That was the news folks, have a good week, and stay safe out there. ---Mad-Architect |