Sometimes your threats work

So, if you go back and read my last entry, you'll see that my wifes store (our store really) was dupped for another site who setup a mirror of our site, changed part of the name (and domain) and was somehow selling false products and causing customers to call US and email US. The site is finally down! You'll see nothing at http://www.psp-shop.com/ that looks like my site, as a matter of fact, it doens't look like anything-it's gone.

So, what did i do? I started by doing a "whois" check to see if the person that registered the domain left their records public, which they did. So, like a typical spammer, I took that e-mail contact and fired off a threatening letter telling them the problem and that legal action was to follow. I then received an e-mail:

I have found that this site was replicated by our webmaster, this site was created as fake to support our clients who refer to this domain.
Nothing was selling on this site. sorry for this, we have redo this site.

Apparently the e-mail sounded as if they used my site template for their design (not the first time someone has taken a website design template to work off of) but the fact that I had real people contacting me and telling me they bought something from that exact website he said "was not seling anything" is beyond me.

End result, site is offline, good riddence. Glad I didn't have to find a second measure of attack.

Oddly enough, their webhost provider, iWeb, didn't get back to me at all when I sent them an email at their website "abuse" address. Go figure.

Posted by codemonkey on Thu Sep 11, 2008 @ 12:50 am EDT | 7 Comments