Christmas shopping online is a popular pastime.Jim Chan decided to give it a try.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 Web site'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 a form of cybersquatting where domain names are registered with the intent to profit from users mistyping a popular website's URL. In this case, the typo was the omission of the letter "n" in the word "Amazon."

Christmas Shopping Online Is a Popular Pastime