Jim Chan decided to Christmas shop online.He linked to Amazon.com,found a perfect gift for his daughter,registered,and placed his order.It was only later that he noticed that the website's URL was actually Amazom.com.Jim was a victim of
A) Bluesnarfing.
B) splogging.
C) vishing.
D) typosquatting.

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Jim was a victim of typosquatting, which is the practice of registering domain names that are a misspelling or variation of a popular website's domain name in order to deceive users into visiting a fraudulent website. In this case, the fraudulent website was Amazom.com instead of Amazon.com.

Jim Chan Decided to Christmas Shop Online