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Typing face.book me for…, for instance, will becomehttp://face.book.

That link can later be edited to redirect the victim to a malicious website.

Magnifying glass enlarging the word �malware� in computer machine code

This isnt that uncommon on Wikipedia, either.

The same method works on other websites, too, like Medium, for example.

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