Trickster Websites Fined £100,000

Firms That Trick You With Miss-spelled Website Names Fined £100,000
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Two companies running premium-rate phone competitions on "typosquatted" sites have been fined £100,000.

'Typosquatting' directs consumers to fake sites when they mistype the address. Typosquatters use misspelled versions of the web addresses of well-known brand.