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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?"
"Take off and nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Oh wait, they're in post-soviet Russia...
(Sirens wailing)
That probably wasn't a very good--
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The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
Good thing your site is hosted in Russia. That makes things a whole lot easier.
The only way to deal with the Russians is with the Italians or the Irish.
So either:
"Say hello to my little friend"
or
"This guy takes a blunt object, fuckin', waah! Hits the guy with the bandages around his head, right? Why? 'Cause he's smart. He knows the guy with the bandages around his ass, he ain't goin' nowhere. He's goin' fuckin' nowhere. "
Of how Russian Free Enterprise works, I would suggest either hiring hitmen to brazenly gun-down whoever cloned your site, if it is a relatively small operation, or insinuate that the cloner is an enemy of the state, and have him jailed on trumped-up tax evasion charges, if it is a large operation.
If neither of these options suits, I hear that Polonium is the new Earl Grey...
That's a rather dangerous and almost certainly illegal thing to do.
However, I was thinking about suggesting that he post the URL here so that people here in slashdot could take a look at the site and get some ideas about what to do about the ...
...oh, wait.
network solutions sales rep, is that you?
Create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track their IP address.
Done.
It worked!
The money has to get to these people somehow. Follow it, and you find the crook.
Exactly, good advice!
Like girlintraining states, you only need to hack to the Visa merchant account to know what bank account it belongs to, then hack the bank to know who is the owner of that account and get his bank statements to know what is being done with it. After you furiously raid the persons home you discover the old lady is a money mule and has wired the money overseas. Now you only need to take a flight to Kazakhstan and go talk with the local banks about it, just to find out that some alcoholic cashed it out for $10 and gave it to some man he doesn't remember.
As always, great tip, girlintraining.
> A few recommendations...
a) Read the article.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Try to close your Slashdot account, for example.
Bastard. now I've got to re-register.
archive.org - just has to look alike, doesn't have to act alike
password resets via email, though PayPal is quite a stretch.
You seem to make good points on the rest.
Publish the link to the site on Slashdot (and don't forget to mention it has some free pr0n). The site will die within minutes, after the first 10 million slashdotters visit it.
This would be funny if you posted as an Anonymous Coward.
might as well contact James Bond directly.
In Soviet Russia, site clones YOU!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."