House ups prison time for Domain fraudsters
The US House of Representatives this week passed a bill that would boost prison time for scammers who register websites under false pretences.
The US House of Representatives this week passed a bill that would boost prison time for scammers who register websites under false pretences.
Sponsored by Lamar Smith (R-Tex) and now heading to the Senate, would up jail time by seven years for identity thieves who “knowingly falsely register a domain name”, reports iTNews.
Online investigators have found a potpourri of clearly fraudulent information entered in website registration records, ranging from bogus 555-555-5555 phone numbers to ‘humorous’ street addresses.
According to Smith, up to 10 percent of the internet’s 30 million domain names may be registered under false identities.
Phishing scammers are most likely to use false info to register domain names, since they build sites with the intent of defrauding consumers, and then quickly abandon those domains. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, for instance, has pegged the average lifespan of a phishing site at just 2.25 days.
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