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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i've gotten those in the mail

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its amazing people actually fall for that bulls***

i really must be in the wrong business. i'm thinking about this whole "business plan" concept wrong. i'm thinking "what do people want and need and how can i give that to them better than the competition"

i should be thinking "how can i prey on stupidity and fear of authority"

Stupidity tax rewards evil

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The thing about the "stupidity tax" as so many call it is not that it harms the stupid, it is that it rewards the corrupt.

You can laugh at the people who fall for things like this and pat yourself on the back all you like, but it is wrong. It isn't helping society. It isn't weeding out the weak and stupid. It is rewarding evil.

Re:Stupidity tax rewards evil

[spun]

You miss the point. It isn't who these people are hurting, it is what they are being rewarded for. Rewarding behavior that hurts others is never a good idea, no matter how minor the harm.