The Typo Millionaires

Slate’s Paul Boutin reports on the sordid history of the oldest scam on the Internet. For almost as long as the Web has existed, there’s been a thriving economy of sites, services, and software vying to grab you as soon as you mistype an URL. Studies estimate that 10-20% of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped, adding up to at least 20 million wrong numbers per day, helping to enrich the likes of porn purveyors, ISPs, Paxfire, Microsoft and VeriSign