Cybersquatting, also known as cyber-occupation, is the act of registering a domain name associated with an existing brand, with the purpose of obtaining money, extorting the brand into buying it, or diverting web traffic to other brands. Since major brands began digitizing their communication channels, websites have become their primary sales channel. This, along with other global factors such as the pandemic, which has accelerated internet use, has led to these types of fraud becoming recurring crimes. The National Cybersecurity Institute explains that squatting can be carried out in various ways. Some of these are: Addition: Adding a character to the end of the domain name, such as \"incibes.es\". Substitution: Changing a character in the domain name to another, such as \"incive.es\". Homographic: Replacing a character with another that appears similar, such as \"inclbe.es\". This technique can also use different alphabets whose characters are similar to the Latin alphabet, such as \"incibe.es\", when in reality they may belong to another alphabet, such as Cyrillic. Separation: This consists of adding a hyphen somewhere in the domain name \"inci-be.es\". Insertion: A character is added between the first and last characters of the domain name \"incibe.es\". Omission: A character is removed from \"incibe.es\". Subdomain: This involves registering a domain name with a partial copy of the legitimate name and adding the remaining characters through a subdomain, such as \"inci.be.es\". Transposition: Altering the order of the characters in the domain name \"incibe.es\". Domain Change: An available domain is used, but with the same domain name, such as \"incibe.eu\". Other: Some other techniques used include adding \"w\" to the beginning of the name or \"com\" to the end, such as \"wwwincibe.es\" or \"incibecom.es\". To avoid this type of confusion, it is recommended to verify the correct URL of the site you want to access, pay attention to the link where personal data is entered, and if necessary, take a screenshot as evidence. Do not open links or emails that mimic a brand; the link may be fraudulent.