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."
Re:I knew something was fishy in his takedown requ (Score:4, Informative)
You mean Lionel Hutz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Hutz [wikipedia.org]
If you are going to impersonate someone, at least impersonate the right person.
Not necessarily jail time (Score:4, Informative)
"The plea agreement contemplates a sentence ranging from probation to six months in custody, but the sentencing judge will make the final decision as to what Scali's sentence will be."
In other words, the title of this article is very misleading.
Re:20 years or only probation? Article says both. (Score:5, Informative)
Probation more likely than 20yrs jail time (Score:4, Informative)
Fyodor [insecure.org]
Re:Not necessarily jail time (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Uh-oh (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not necessarily jail time (Score:2, Informative)
John Zuccarini [wikipedia.org] ended up serving more than a year in prison for cybersquatting, and this seems more serious to me.