Australian Duo Fined AU$2.3M Over Nominet Domain Scam

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via El Reg.

[snip]

A pair of fraudsters who made millions using a domain registration scam have been ordered to pay AU$2.3m (£980,000) by 
an Australian court. Brad Norrish and Chesley Rafferty conned victims into stumping up non-existent fees under the 
threat that they risked losing their domain names unless they paid up.

The duo used data from domain name registrar Nominet to produce authentic-looking notices that lent credibility to the 
trick, the Australian reports. Up to 50,000 UK website owners were targeted in the scam. Nominet was forced to take the 
extreme step of disabling its publicly available database as a result of the scam.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/03/domain_scam/

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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