Ask HN: What is this scam and how to fight/prevent it?

[drik]

Hi,

I found out that multiple websites claim that they are owned and operated by... my own company!

All of them are webshops selling clothes/jewellery.

Obviously I have nothing to do with them but unfortunately my company now is associated with these dodgy websites... some of them use Shopify and others use a thing called Shoplazza.

It looks like many other companies are affected by this scam, just google "not a returning address" and you will see...

What's the best way to deal with this? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

[LinuxBender]

Start here [1] Also gather the IP's, domain names, registrars, AS numbers. Some of this is easier with tools like this [2]. Get screenshots. Lawyers are a last resort and won't do any discovery for you, or worse, will happily charge you to do it. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advise. Contact their ISP's, upstream ISP's if they are resellers. Keep all emotion out of the emails and state everything as facts regarding the fraud. If people start contacting you saying they were defrauded for significant amounts of money, get the FBI involved. [3]

[1] - https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/trademark-infringement...

[2] - https://bgp.he.net/

[3] - https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

[7174n6]

Credit card fraud. They will be running web skimmers and/or key loggers to capture the entered credit card data at checkout.