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."
Thats step 1 (Score:5, Insightful)
Choose your target (Score:4, Insightful)
Ignore legal threats (Score:4, Insightful)
"I'll see you in court then" is the only sensible response.
Re:Choose your target (Score:4, Insightful)
"Gee, lawyers are bloodsucking villains who will stop at nothing to win, I better just hand over the domain instead of fighting them in court. They're a LAWyer, after all, they must know the law!"
Reminds me of how a scientist seems much more trustworthy to the public if they're wearing a lab coat.
Re:Ignore legal threats (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Ignore legal threats (Score:3, Insightful)
It's about time (Score:3, Insightful)
This sort of thing deserves closer policing. It is a drain on the time of registrars and registrants alike to have to deal with these sorts of charlatans.