PayPal Abuse

We have suspended faceofdie.trap17.com for displaying false paypal pages and cheating members. This part of information was revealed by PayPal security officials and they contacted the server managers by email. As a part of our responsiblity and for breaching the TOS, we have suspended his account. And freezed his data.

[ A copy of the Email recieved. ]

>We have just learned that your service is being used to display false, or
>"spoofed," PayPal.com pages, in an apparent effort to steal personal and
>financial information from consumers, and defraud PayPal users.
>Specifically, it appears that an Atrivo user is sending unsolicited
>messages which misrepresent the sender as PayPal, and making false
>statements that encourage the recipient to go to a page hosted by you at
>http://faceofdie.trap17.com/secure, asking to enter personal and account
>information. The purloined information is then sent to an email account
>and, based on our investigation of similar schemes, used to steal accounts
>and commit other fraudulent acts including international credit card and
>wire fraud.
>
>This matter is urgent - we believe that consumers have been falsely
>directed to this page and may be fooled into divulging personal
>information to a criminal, if the page is not immediately disabled. We ask
>that you immediately disable the site at
>http://faceofdie.trap17.com/secure, as well as any associated email
>addresses, so that this fraudulent scheme can be stopped. We further
>request that you provide us with all contact information that you have for
>this user so that we may provide this information to the proper law
>enforcement authorities.
>
>While we believe that the above information gives your company more than a
>sufficient basis for disabling the page immediately, out of caution we
>note that your user's unauthorized reproduction of PayPal's trademark and
>copyrighted materials violates federal law, and places an independent
>legal obligation on your company to remove the offending page(s)
>immediately upon receiving notice from PayPal, the owner of the
>copyrighted materials. Accordingly, the information below serves as
>PayPal's notice of infringement pursuant to the Digital Millennium
>Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512
>©(3)(A):
>
>I, the undersigned, CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that I am the agent
>authorized to act on behalf of the owner of certain intellectual property
>rights, said owner being named PayPal, Inc. I have a good faith belief
>that the website located at URL http://faceofdie.trap17.com/secure has its
>copyright in each page of its website and associated source code. Please
>act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material or items
>claimed to be infringing.
>
>We sincerely appreciate your immediate attention to this important matter.
>We would also appreciate if you would take steps to confirm the accuracy
>of any contact information that your user may have provided to you in
>establishing the account. Should you have any accurate information that
>could assist PayPal and law enforcement in tracking this individual, we
>would greatly appreciate your assistance, as we know that you do not
>condone the use of your services for such criminal purposes.
>
>Finally, please be advised that we have referred this issue to the Federal
>Bureau of Investigation for their investigation. The F.B.I. has requested
>that we convey to you in this message their request that you preserve for
>90 days all records relating to this web site, including all associated
>accounts, computer logs, files, IP addresses, telephone numbers,
>subscriber and user records, communications, and all programs and files on
>storage media in regard to all Internet connection information, pursuant
>to 18 U.S.C. section 2703(f). While we do not act as an agent of the FBI
>in conveying this request, we do intend to fully cooperate with their
>investigation, and encourage you to do so as well.

[end of email]

We believe that members who register for free hosting account use the service in good faith and do not indulge in illegal activities. Members who breach the law will the reported to FBI for necessary prosecution.

- Regards,
OpaQue

Woah. Someone abusing a Trap17 account and breaking the law? How low can some people go?

Wow... I guess I would never hear about it... that sux... How can someone go so low to steal from people and to use a GOOD FREE web hosting like trap17.com to do it... This guy should use lycos ubbi and other that are worst than trap17... At least he has been banned and won't do it again at trap17.com (I guess)... now we can only wait to see if something is gonna happen again, I hope not!

That's scary...

jup that hurst to the trap17 community,
so if some1 is also doing something illigal... plz stop it,
or report youself in
or if some1 knows this of an other person please turn him in.

People should have some sense. Thats just stupid of someone, and I dont know who likes to cheat there members out of money. That makes me sick.

I think you need to edit this message because it's copying the site that you just posted. I know it's not a big deal and it's only copyright law, but it hurts the pagerank and reputation of trap17. Thank you for changing it! Don't offend all those people in the 1975 copyright act!

~ Dooga

and thanx 4 all

He should have know he could never fool one of the best admin teams ever, just goes to show that you guys will not tolerate any kind of illeagle/ immoral or just plain wrong stuff.

woohoo the internet is now a little bit safer thanks to the trap17 team.