Many popular fake news websites attempted to impersonate legitimate U.S. news publication by using a method known as Typosquatting, where fake websites get as close as possible to the original URL, only differing by a letter or two. A clear example is ABCnews.com.co. Typosquatting relies on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on, since often these websites target common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains by used .com.co as opposed to .com.