Re: [ga] Court Shuts Down '.Usa' Internet Address Scam

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Danny and all assembly members,

  I smell Nuestar's influence here...  I never had a problem
with .USA domain names resolving...

  The full complaint in PDF format can be found here:
 http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/03/tldcmp.pdf
The FTC press report is here:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/03/tld.htm
Please read this carefully and completely.

The Temporary restoring order for this situation is here:
 http://www.ftc.gov/os/2002/03/tldtro.pdf

The  (FTC File No. 012 3237) - This is the file number for this action.

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=685908
>
> Excerpt:
>
> A U.S. court shut down a Web site that capitalized on post-September 11
> patriotic fervor to sell fake Internet domain names with suffixes such as
> ".usa" and ".brit," the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
>
> A variety of defendants based in the U.S. and the United Kingdom launched an
> aggressive junk e-mail campaign that urged Internet users to sign up for the
> star-spangled addresses after the hijacking attacks of Sept. 11, the FTC
> said.
>
> The messages linked to a Web site, (http://www.dotusa.com), that urged users
> to reserve addresses such as www.surfin.usa that did not work, the FTC said.
>
> "These spam scammers conned consumers in two ways. They sent deceptive spam,
> and they sold worthless Web addresses from their Web sites," said J. Howard
> Beales, head of the FTC's consumer-protection division, in a statement.
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