How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners?

An anonymous reader writes "I used to run a small web design service, the domain for which I allowed to expire after years of non-use. A few weeks ago, I noticed that my old site was back online at the old domain. The site-cloners are now using my old email addresses to gain access to old third-party web services accounts (invoicing tools, etc.) and are fraudulently billing my clients for years of services. I've contacted the Russian site host, PayPal, and the invoicing service. What more can I do? Can I fight back?"

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My boss gunshy about IP thieves(read Free lancers)

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5 years ago, I got my current job as they fired their freelancer who worked for us 3 days including 1 onsite. Over time he had quietly shifted websites host, Advice was offered that this was ok. Later discovered, that included domain names to his own registrar and began billing clients directly. Other minor things such as the main webadmin account forwarded to his personal email.

Moving forward to now....we had job interviews. My boss gave a no nonsense directive; Reject any CV's where the applicant is a FreeLancer, Including any Part-Time employed listing FreeLancing as the other balance. In interviews any mention of doing Freelancing from the applicant was a death sentence(job wise). It was interesting to observe. This being my first involvement in the hiring process. One could debate the rights and wrongs of my bosses attitude, but that was what is was, and the perception itself is all that matters.