Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2600-1002026898-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 02 Oct 2001 05:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12487 invoked by uid 510); 2 Oct 2001 12:48:26 -0000 Received: from n2.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.52) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 12:48:26 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2600-1002026898-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by n2.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Oct 2001 12:48:18 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 2 Oct 2001 12:48:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 83825 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 12:48:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 2 Oct 2001 12:48:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 12:48:13 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id FAA03053 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:48:02 -0700 Message-Id: <200110021248.FAA03053@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:48:02 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:FTC.Shuts.Down.Thousands.of.Deceptive.Web.Sites] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FTC Shuts Down Thousands of Deceptive Web Sites Reuters, 10/1/2001 <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011001/wr/tech_internet_scams_dc_1.html">http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011001/wr/tech_internet_scams_dc_1.html> A U.S. court shut down thousands of Web sites after it determined that they diverted Web surfers and held them captive while bombarding them with ads for pornography and gambling, the U.S. government said on Monday. According to the Federal Trade Commission, John Zuccarini, of Andalusia, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, operated more than 5,500 Web sites that diverted Web surfers from their intended destinations and exposed them to pop-up ads. Zuccarini did not immediately respond to calls for comment. Zuccarini registered many misspellings of popular sites, such as www.cartoonnetwork.com, the FTC said, in a bid to draw traffic from sloppy typists. Visitors to his sites often could not leave, as the ``back'' button on their Web browsers would be rigged to trigger more pop-up ads. ``After one FTC staff member closed out of 32 separate windows, leaving just two windows on the task bar, he selected the 'back' button, only to watch as the same seven windows that initiated the blitz erupted on his screen, and the cybertrap began anew,'' the FTC said in its complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. The scheme is especially harmful to children or employees who may put their jobs at risk when they inadvertently call up pornographic or gambling-related material, the FTC said. The district court has ordered Zuccarini to take his sites offline, the FTC said, while the case continues. But as of early Monday afternoon, at least one site registered to Zuccarini, www.annakurnikova.com, was still functional. Zuccarini had registered 41 variations on the name of pop star Britney Spears, the FTC said. In its court action, the FTC is seeking to get Zuccarini to return the estimated $800,000 to $1 million he earns in advertising revenues. According to the FTC, Zuccarini has been sued at least 63 times in the last two years by trademark owners, celebrities or others seeking to recover variants of their Internet domain names. He has lost 53 of those suits and been forced to return nearly 200 domain names, the FTC said. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Pinpoint the right security solution for your company- Learn how to add 128- bit encryption and to authenticate your web site with VeriSign's FREE guide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yQix2C/33_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : 2001-12-31 20:59:53 PST