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

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

John and all assembly members,

  This is nice, but did you file an official complaint or this response with
the FTC?  While chatting with them just a few minuets ago, they
have yet to receive any "Official Complaints" on this action when
I inquired.

  We[INEGroup] are considering filing an "Official Complaint"
on this action pending a complete review..

John Palmer wrote:

> A response to the FTC's actions: www.adns.net/NEWS/2002031101.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
> To: <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:20 AM
> Subject: [ga] Court Shuts Down '.Usa' Internet Address Scam
>
> >
> 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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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup - (Over 121k members/stakeholdes strong!)
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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