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Cybersquatter Faces Jail Time For Wire Fraud

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-isn't-true-till-i-see-a-summons dept.

coondoggie writes to mention that a Las Vegas man faces about 20 years in prison today after pleading guilty in a case where he impersonated intellectual property lawyers and tried to bully owners out of their domain names. "According to the FBI, David Scali is charged with registering an e-mail account under an alias and then sending e-mails in which he claimed to be the intellectual property lawyer. In the e-mails, which were sent in late June and early July of 2006, Scali threatened to file $100,000 trademark infringement lawsuits against the owners of various Internet website names unless they gave up their domain name registrations within two days."

4 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. there must be a link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    have you ever noticed that child molesters are often fags too? filthy fucking faggots.

  2. Re:Uh-oh by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's called a complete sentence you fuckwad. A complaint could read like "he was charged with getting in his car and running over a child."

    The charge isn't

    Count 1: Getting in a car

    Count 2: Running over a child

    The charge is getting into a car _and_ then running over a child.

    I suppose you can leave off the first bit, but it's called "reporting" and usually you want to flesh out details like, say, how the crime was committed.

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  3. ahem... by ed1park · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    coondoggie?

  4. Proctologist also wear white coats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I see a connection.

    IANAL (thank Cthulhu)