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Bringing Down A Copycat Site

Posted by timothy on from the cajoling-and-threats dept.

Nigel Cross wrote in with an interesting story from the world of software fraud. Cross writes "I found a copycat site fraudulently selling my own software and kept a record of the steps it took to bring him down."

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  1. Step One: by Icarus1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step one: Find out name of evil twin from mother.

    1. Re:Step One: by Datasage · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think he was the evil twin.

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    2. Re:Step One: by pipingguy · · Score: 3, Funny


      Slashdot has more users than that, based on UsedID numbers

      No one likely knows for sure, but I'd bet that up to 50% are dupes or abandoned accounts and Taco himself probably owns dozens - that's why all the good usernames are already taken. He's hoarding them for eBay sale in case he gets fired.

  2. Wow, early respond! by Thorwak · · Score: 2, Funny

    From article:
    > Dec. 24, 2005: I received an e-mail from

    Now, how did you know that? :-P

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  3. Har Har Har by acxr+is+wasted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dec. 24, 2005: I received an e-mail from a former colleague...

    Talk about the mysterious future!

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  4. /. it by Pmkool1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the solution to everything: /. it!

    Think about it... Just post a link to that site saying that it's a fake, and just watch as it takes a slashdotting.

    Now THAT'S how a nerd kicks some butt!

    1. Re:/. it by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Funny
      One of the issues that concerned the poster was that the copycat site might show up (early) on search engine results.

      I Googled for "MailList King Pro", one of his products, and most of the hits were for serial numbers and cracks...

  5. just use his own software against the copycat by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    i mean his product is called "maillist king", right?

    well, sign the copycat loser up to every known source of spam in the universe, as befitting the skills of someone whose product is called "maillist king"

    and then watch the copycat's server melt /didn't rtfa

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  6. That was... Anti-climatic by Albinofrenchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I read the article write-up, I just assumed I was in for some great tale of some peice of scum getting fscked. This was as mundane as going to see a batman movie and batman handles the final foe by calling his mom names.

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  7. Wouldn't it be just terrible... by benna · · Score: 2, Funny

    if this scammers site suddenly got knocked off the face of the internet by thousands of large UDP packets?

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  8. Godwin's Corrolary by Rufus88 · · Score: 3, Funny

    one would be no better than.... I don't know.... SCO.
    Someone was just compared to SCO. Next thread!

  9. Godwin's Corrolary? Oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...don't be such a Nazi.