<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Typosquatters fined for targeting Twitter and [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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Typosquatters who targeted Twitter and Wikipedia have been fined £100000 ($157000) each for operating premium-rate phone competitions on two websites. PhonepayPlus, a UK premium-rate regulator, punished R&D Media Europe and Una Valley for misleading ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Bogus Twitter and [b]Wikipedia sites fined and booted offline[/b]
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by Lisa Vaas on February 17, 2012 | Leave a comment Two typosquatting sites, "Wikapedia.com" and "Twtter.com," have been forced offline and fined £100000 ($156000) each by a UK telephone regulatory agency. Before the sites were kicked offline, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />2 sites fined £100000 for 'squatting' on Twitter, [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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Two firms that attracted traffic to their sites by “posing” as micro-blogging site Twitter and open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia have been forced offline and fined £100000 each. PhonepayPlus, the UK regulator of premium rate telephone services (PRS), ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Twitter, [b]Wikipedia 'Squatter' Sites Fined For Posing As Twitter, Wikipedia[/b]
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By Drew Bowling · 1 min ago · Leave a Comment Typos happen. They're inescapable if you use a computer. This is why keyboards come with a Delete key. Given then that typos are expected, it was inevitable that someone out in the internet would find a way ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Fake [b]Wikipedia and Twitter Look-Alikes Kicked Offline[/b]
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Good news for anyone who's ever misspelled Wikipedia or Twitter; two knockoff sites, "Wikapedia.com" and "Twtter.com" — look closely — have been booted offline. Before they were taken down, the two fake sites preyed on visitors who accidentally landed ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia, Twitter Typosquatting Websites Shut, Fined £100000 each[/b]
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Two websites which posed themselves as Wikipedia and micro blogging website Twitter have been taken down from the internet and also have been fined £100000 ($156000) each. UK regulatory body, PhonepayPlus, booted both these websites and stated on their ...

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