Which of the Following Is an Example of Typosquatting

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of typosquatting?

• A) A start-up investment company assumes the online identity of Arman & Company, a well established investment company, in social networking platforms for the purposes of acquiring its brand equity.
• B) An environmental support group creates a spoof of the advertisement of a popular beverage company, highlighting its degradation of the environment by releasing waste products into the water bodies near its bottling plant.
• C) A person registers a domain name, Tucson Multispeciality Clinic, which is the name of a popular multispeciality clinic hoping to to resell it to the clinic at an exorbitant profit.
• D) A person registers the domain name "currentaffairs.net" to take advantage of the huge popularity of the e-newspaper currentaffairs.org to divert traffic to his webpage and make money by selling advertising space.

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Definitions:

Amino Acids

Organic compounds that serve as the building blocks of proteins, containing both an amino group and a carboxyl group.

Three-Letter Sequences

In genetics, sequences of three nucleotides (triplets) in DNA or RNA that code for specific amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

mRNA

Messenger RNA, a form of RNA responsible for transporting genetic instructions from DNA to the ribosome, the site of protein synthesis.

tRNA

Transfer RNA; a type of RNA that helps decode a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence into a protein during protein synthesis.