Cybersquatter Faces Jail Time For Wire Fraud 55
coondoggie writes to mention that a Las Vegas man faces about 20 years in prison today after pleading guilty in a case where he impersonated intellectual property lawyers and tried to bully owners out of their domain names. "According to the FBI, David Scali is charged with registering an e-mail account under an alias and then sending e-mails in which he claimed to be the intellectual property lawyer. In the e-mails, which were sent in late June and early July of 2006, Scali threatened to file $100,000 trademark infringement lawsuits against the owners of various Internet website names unless they gave up their domain name registrations within two days."
I knew something was fishy in his takedown request (Score:3, Funny)
Darwin Awards - Legal Edition (Score:2, Funny)
There can be only one (Score:3, Funny)
"The" intellectual property lawyer?
It's been just one person causing all this pain?
And step 2 is... (Score:4, Funny)
And do what, indict them for impersonating themselves?
Re:Darwin Awards - Legal Edition (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Just clumsy (Score:3, Funny)
I say throw the book at him (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And step 2 is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I say throw the book at him (Score:3, Funny)
-Mike