n what was described as a landmark ruling, a South Carolina federal jury has determined that a Web-hosting company is liable for a customer’s Internet site that listed fake products for sale. The jury in Columbia this week awarded nearly $800,000 in damages to California-based Cleveland Golf Co. in a first-of-its-kind trademark infringement case after determining Utah-based web-hosting firm Bright Builders Inc. and website owners Christopher Prince and Prince Distribution LLC of Charleston violated the state’s Unfair Trade Practices Act. Read Article
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I was stressed, rushing to make last-minute lodging arrangements for a three-stop writing trip to Europe, when it appeared on Craigslist: the perfect apartment for my first stop in London. A tiny studio in Notting Hill for just £45, or $73, a night. Read Article
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A US judge in Nevada froze the assets of 61 companies sued by the Federal Trade Commission as it seeks to recover about $275 million allegedly taken from consumers in online scams, the agency said. The FTC, in its complaint filed on Jan. 12 in Las Vegas, accuses the companies, known as I Works, of [...]
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Parents and children were alerted today to a Facebook scam involving fake modelling agencies. Leicestershire Police said the scam, using a number of social networking sites, appears to involve the fake agencies encouraging children to pose in their underwear. Read Article
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FOREIGN sex gangs are using Birmingham as a base to pimp children as young as 12. Child protection officers are focusing their efforts on beating the sick pervert rings in towns throughout the north. Asian gangs are believed to be heavily involved. In Leicester, police have become aware of an internet scam which involves non [...]
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Travels struggling to get home by train for the Spring Festival are being targeted by con artists claiming to be railway staff with a stash of tickets for sale. To reassure wary members of the public, the online adverts say that payment can be made on receipt of tickets. But city railway police warn that [...]
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Thousands of Twitter users are believed to have been hit with malicious links tied to a rogue anti-virus scam circulating the micro-blog service. The scam is spreading through malicious links abusing the goo.gl URL shortening service. According to Kaspersky Lab, the malicious links redirect users to different domains with a ‘m28sx.html’ page. That HTML page [...]
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