: We've had our content copied under a different URL - why and what do we do? We have a problem. We've noticed a large amount of traffic showing up on our Google Analytics. Upon further investigation

@Pierce454

If you live in the USA, you can use online legal services (ie: www.legalzoom.com/legalforms/domain-name-cease-and-desist-letter.html) to have a "cease and desist letter" signed by a lawyer and send it to the domain registrar (NameCheap) and the phishing website email address. If you live outside the USA, you might be able to find an online legal service for your country or you would probably have to go to your local lawyers office. This way is probably the best because it tells the NameCheap that if they don't shutdown this website then they will have legal action put against them (which could cause them to be totally shutdown and have even more lawsuits).

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@Hamaas447

It looks to me like they're trying to steal your customers' login details - login attempts on the fake site are redirecting to the real site's login page.

I suggest that you should change your own login page to warn of the risk, and then see what the other party does...

BTW, you may also have some success complaining to ENOM (the registrar) rather than their reseller.

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@Radia820

Punch target-is.com into a whois search and see who controls it:


Connected to whois.enom.com
This domain has already been registered.
Displaying domain information provided by ENOM, INC.

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AboutUs: target-is.com

Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com
Contact: support@namecheap.com
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Domain name: target-is.com

Registrant Contact:
WhoisGuard
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Fax:
11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90064
US

Administrative Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (3420f536e0844f39a260eccc329e0cb8.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90064
US

Technical Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (3420f536e0844f39a260eccc329e0cb8.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90064
US

Status: Locked

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Creation date: 09 Aug 2011 21:51:00
Expiration date: 09 Aug 2012 13:51:00



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Then contact them and/or their registrar and ask what's going on.

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