Idiot Posing as a Lawyer Attempts to Steal Domain Names
A Las Vegas man, who may or may not be related to the Sofa.com bandit, has pleaded guilty to plotting to steal domain names by posing as a California intellectual property lawyer. The not-so-brilliant David Scali created the email address trademarkinfringement@netzero.net in 2006 and during June and July of last year, threatened various domain owners with high dollar law suits unless they promptly handed over their domains.
In one case his scheme succeeded and where a victim turned over a domain name similar to citysearch.com. The case was investigated by the F.B.I. He has agreed to plead guilty to a wire fraud charge which can carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison, however prosecutors will only ask for a range of probation to six months in custody. Scali will face various fines and during this probation period his computer use will be monitored.
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September 13th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Damn…as they say in Greece “Stupidity can’t be found on the mountains..”
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October 4th, 2007 at 10:16 am
That’s good for him and he deserved to be in jail! I really feel sad that he has the ability to do that. He is so shameful. I wonder if there are still people like him exist…
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October 16th, 2007 at 12:40 am
He got what he deserved.
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October 17th, 2007 at 9:27 am
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February 13th, 2008 at 5:19 am
These days cyber crimes are increasing. All domainers should be very cautious of these kinds of frauds.
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September 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
first, i can’t believe the scam worked. Second, I can’t believe someone was gullible enough to fall for it. Third, I think it freaking hilarious that the scenario even occured
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January 15th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Brilliant! Ha, ha….he deserved it, and the web doesn’t deserved people like him.
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February 17th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
A real smart one he is.
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