US Court Disconnects Canadian Domain Name Scammers

coondoggie writes "A US District Court today ordered a halt to the illegal practice of Canadian companies who the Federal Trade Commission said deceptively posed as domain name registrars and sent bogus bills to thousands of US small businesses and nonprofit organizations for their annual 'Website Address Listing.' The FTC said many of the businesses believed they would lose their Web site addresses unless they paid the bill, so they paid but in most cases the defendants did not provide domain registration services, did not provide the 'search optimization' services it claimed to provide, and bilked small businesses and nonprofits out of millions of dollars."

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dollars

[dword]

bilked small businesses and nonprofits out of millions of dollars

Why bother? It's probably Canadian just dollars...

Re:i've gotten those in the mail

[bsDaemon]

i should be thinking "how can i prey on stupidity and fear of authority" Run for office?

Re:Watch out for those Canadians!

[rossz]

And if that doesn't work, we'll impound your hockey teams

That could start a war! Canada does have an army, though I think he's in Iraq at the moment.

Too busy for that...

[stephdau]

Dudes, c'mon, our law enforcement officers and law makers are way too busy with important things such as a bribe-sponsored copyright reform to worry about such pesky things... :p