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The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service have seized 17 domains that were part of a defrauding scheme. US law enforcement has investigated the activity of the scammers since February 2021, after the FBI’s IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) rec...
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November 15, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, domain seized, domain seizure
A new phishing campaign utilizes SMS messages, sent from scammers that want you to believe there’s a problem with a package delivery. The SMS message states more or less the following: [Postal Service] Your package is on hold due to incomplete ad...
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August 25, 2022 DomainGang
.us domains, Domain Crime, domain scam, NameSilo, SMS phishing, sms SCAM
Generic, exact match domains are often called “long tail” domains due to their length. In the case of FactoryHandbag.com, the domain is an exact match .com of “factory handbag” and that’s intentional. Google is generous to...
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August 11, 2022 DomainGang
counterfeit goods, Domain Crime, factory handbag, FactoryHandbag.com, seized by ice, Seized domains
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged 11 individuals for their roles in creating and promoting Forsage, a fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme that raised more than $300 million, defrauding millions of retail investors worldwide. A...
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August 1, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Forsage, Forsage scam, Forsage.io, Ponzi cheme, SEC, SEV
An ongoing spam campaign is using the domain name HannahBenson.com, alongside the alias “Hannah Benson.” The spammer targets domain registrants with “similar domains” to the ones being peddled. So far, nothing new about using a ...
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July 20, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain scammer, domain spammer, HannahBenson.com, scammer, Spam
On August 6, 2019, the Sonoma Valley Hospital went into red alert. Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospital’s communications director, noted at the time that SVH.com, their prestigious three letter .com domain and hospital acronym, had been “ma...
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July 2, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, sonoma valley hospital, stolen domains, SVH.com
Since 1998, the domain name TulipBulbs.com was used by the Messelaar Bulb Company in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The specialty flower grower of the “finest quality topsize flower bulbs, imported from Holland” was founded in 1969 and operated it...
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June 30, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, Escrow.com, Messelaar Bulb Company, Pieter Messelaar, tulip bulbs, TulipBulbs.com
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has seized Simp3.com, a domain used to pirate music at a grand scale. Registered in 2015, Simp3.com provided downloads of mp3 music as seen in this capture from 2019: The domain was seized along with the assoc...
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June 23, 2022 DomainGang
CoroUrbano.com, CoroUrbanos.com, Domain Crime, Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, Pautamp3.com, Seized domains, Simp3.com
The FBI has shut down the SNNDOB Marketplace and seized its associated domain names. The illicit marketplace made an estimated $19 million dollars by selling the personal data of about 24 million US citizens, according to the Justice Department. The ac...
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June 8, 2022 DomainGang
doj, Domain Crime, SNNDOB Marketplace, SSNDOB, SSNDOB Marketplace
The domain F45.com was auctioned off on DropCatch last week, as a deleted domain, closing at $49,544 dollars. F45.com has an interesting past, as it was stolen from photographer, Rolfe Horn in late 2015, by serial domain thief Oleksandar Sapoval. Now, ...
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May 30, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Crime, F45 Training, f45.com, Oleksandar Sapoval, Rolfe Horn, stolen domain f45.com