Australian Duo Fined AU$2.3M Over Nominet Domain Scam
John Leyden writes in The Register:
A pair of fraudsters who made millions using a domain registration scam have been ordered to pay AU$2.3m (£980,000) by an Australian court. Brad Norrish and Chesley Rafferty conned victims into stumping up non-existent fees under the threat that they risked losing their domain names unless they paid up.
The duo used data from domain name registrar Nominet to produce authentic-looking notices that lent credibility to the trick, the Australian reports. Up to 50,000 UK website owners were targeted in the scam. Nominet was forced to take the extreme step of disabling its publicly available database as a result of the scam.
posted by Fergie @ 1/03/2006 09:07:00 AM
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