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by pbhjpbhj 6065 days ago
It's "passing off" a slightly weaker part of trademark law. They are pretending to the public that their service is that of someone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off - written from the UK perspective, it's certainly part of EU TM law too, but I don't know enough about US TM law to comment properly on this.