FTC Busts Domain Name Scammers

coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission said today it had permanently killed the operations of a group that it said posed as domain name registrars and convinced thousands of US consumers, small businesses and non-profit organizations to pay bogus bills by leading them to believe they would lose their Web site addresses if they didn't. As with so many of these cases however, the defendants get off paying back very little compared to what they took. With today's settlement order, entered against defendants Isaac Benlolo, Kirk Mulveney, Pearl Keslassy, and 1646153 Ontario Inc., includes a suspended judgment of $4,261,876, the total amount of consumer injury caused by the illegal activities. Based on what the FTC called the inability of the settling defendants to pay, they will turn over $10,000 to satisfy the judgment."

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Re:In due time...

[Red Flayer]

And no, I'm not a Christian, but I would point out that even the Christian god is by no means always averse to killing. Remember the Egyptian firstborns in Exodus? Even I wouldn't have done that.

Exodus is Old Testament. The New Testament supercedes OT for Christians (I'm not one either) :)

Since human lives are not identical, I do not assign a fixed value. The value of the parasitic humans, who take away from rather than contribute to society, is negative, so of course a possession is worth more.

Well, now you have a whole bunch of assumptions. How can you know that someone who steals takes more from society than he gives? And is it a far stretch to say that someone who cheats on their taxes is also a thief, and thus should also be put down? How about someone who causes a car accident? Or someone who catches the flu and spreads it by not staying home while contagious?

And what about the possibility of someone who learns better ways and becomes a contributor to society? Is that impossible?