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> Can you make a fraud charge stick? Probably not. I wouldn't rely on weasel-wording to keep you out of jail. Even if those people aren't technically lying, it
by jakobegger 8y ago
> Can you make a fraud charge stick? Probably not.
I wouldn't rely on weasel-wording to keep you out of jail. Even if those people aren't technically lying, it's obvious that they attempt to mislead people into paying for services they have never ordered.
- sokoloff 8y agoIn some of those cases, they're trying to convince someone into ordering a service and paying for it at the same moment. My domains have public registration, so I get a lot of these BS solicitations. (It pleases me every time I get one, because these scammers^DELentrepreneurs are losing money on each of my domains... "If your domain lapses and no one can get to your site, you could lose business or even lose the domain entirely. Renew your domain today for only $99.95!" "If you don't submit your business to Google and drop off of search results, your business could suffer. Send us $100 and we'll handle submitting your site to Google for you." Those statements are not technically wrong; these companies are soliciting to provide a service; obviously techies find the practice abhorrent and misleading, but they live in a muddy grey area where they provide some service and charge money for it.
- 0x0 8y agoHow are they losing money on each of your domains?
- sokoloff 8y agoThey're mailing me a letter, spending an envelope stuff and a stamp on a domain owner who will never convert.
- jonas21 8y agoThey usually include a business reply mail envelope too. I make sure to drop those into the mail empty so they get charged for that as well.
- 0x0 8y agoGotcha, at first I assumed we were talking emails :)
- tomschlick 8y agoThats evil and I love it. Gonna have to do that from now on.