scheme. Panels have categorically held that use of a domain name for illegal activity (e.g., phishing, impersonation, or other types of fraud) can never...domain name to perpetrate fraud constitutes bad faith (WIPO Overview 3.0 at section 3.4). That fraud was the intention of the Respondent upon registration...
2023-03-29 - Case Details
Name is identical to Complainant’s ORBITRAP mark and has been activated to perpetrate financial fraud on Complainant’s customers. Complainant also...means by which to perpetrate fraud against Complainant’s customers. Complainant states it has no affiliation with Respondent or the bogus Domain Name...
2023-03-27 - Case Details
of a committing fraud. The fact that the other Domain Name merely resolve to the Complainant’s websites does not prevent a finding of bad faith, given...impersonate the Complainant (by the use of the META Mark and logo) for the purpose of engaging in an advance fee fraud scheme, requesting payment in exchange...
2022-08-16 - Case Details
been used since registration; contending that the Domain Name has been used to perpetuate fraud against a named customer of a subsidiary of TK Elevator...GmbH. The Complainants provide a detailed explanation of how this alleged fraud was perpetuated and support those claims by evidence in the form of...
2022-09-06 - Case Details
perpetuating a fraud on investors. The use of the Domain Name in order to perpetrate a fraud does not and never could confer a right or legitimate interest on...Domain Name has been used to perpetuate a fraud by passing off as the Complainant and purporting to offer investment services. Such use is prima facie...
2022-05-06 - Case Details
scheme. The Complainant says that these activities constitute identity fraud, wire fraud, and theft, and as such, cannot be considered legitimate...activities constitute, in the United States at least, identity fraud, wire fraud, and theft, and such illegal activities under the Policy, cannot be considered...
2023-08-16 - Case Details
official website of the Complainant. In addition, the disputed domain name was used to perpetrate a fraud, offering products to consumers pretending to be...access/hacking, impersonation/passing off, or other types of fraud) can never confer rights or legitimate interests on a respondent. WIPO Overview 3.0...
2023-07-13 - Case Details
financial fraud. 5. Parties’ Contentions A. Complainant The Complainant contends that the disputed domain name is nearly identical to its CUMMINS trademark...appear associated or affiliated with the Complainant and commit a financial fraud is clear evidence of bad faith. The Complainant requests that the...
2023-05-04 - Case Details
United States District Court for the District of Nevada. In this action Respondent asserts claims for fraud, tortuous interference with business...similarity with Complainant’s registered mark. Rights or Legitimate Interests. Respondent obtained the Domain Name by fraud. According to the Complaint and the...
2005-10-21 - Case Details
WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2013-1248 WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION AlgaeCal Inc. v. AlgaeCal Fraud Case No...The Respondent is AlgaeCal Fraud of St. Michael, Barbados. 2. The Domain Name and Registrar The disputed domain name is registered with Internet.bs Corp...
2013-09-23 - Case Details
domain name with the intention of taking advantage of the Complainant’s reputation and using it to commit a fraud. According to the Complainant, the...the fraud. Such circumstances have in the past been found to constitute evidence of registration and use of a disputed domain name in bad faith. In...
2011-11-11 - Case Details
offers. For example, the domain name has been listed on various domain blacklists and was denounced on a forum thread on an anti-fraud website. The email...provided screen-shots of anti-fraud websites, which include the text of emails sent from these addresses. It appears to the Panel that the Respondent’s goal...
2014-02-04 - Case Details
or has been permitted to be used for the purposes of fraudulently impersonating the Complainant to commit “advanced fee fraud”. The Complainant has...no circumstances in which the appropriation of a third party’s mark within a domain name for the purposes of fraud could be considered a bona fide use...
2013-02-15 - Case Details
Respondent in connection with a credit card fraud scheme involving a business, “Petmart”, which directly competes with the Complainant under a confusingly...Respondent’s use of the disputed domain name in connection with a credit card fraud scheme does not constitute a bona fide sale of goods or services nor a...
2019-04-10 - Case Details
Respondent to specifically target potential customers of Complainant as part of an illegal phishing and check fraud scheme. While the Respondent’s targeting of...that use of a domain name for illegal activity—including the impersonation of the complainant and other types of fraud—can never confer rights or...
2023-11-14 - Case Details
furtherance of a fraud scheme. 1 The Complainant states that it became aware of the Domain Name in June 2009 while investigating online fraud complaints. The...online fraud schemes characterized as “advance fee fraud”, “419 scams”, or “Nigerian” or “West African” fraud schemes. (The appellation “419 scams” is...
2009-09-23 - Case Details
are equivalent existing email accounts under in order to send fraud emails to Complainant's international customers/resellers. Finally, Complainant...suggests that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith since the fraud emails sent by Respondent to Complainant's customers...
2014-10-20 - Case Details
referred to as the "SAVILLS Marks"). The disputed domain name was registered on October 18, 2015, and has been used in connection with fraud emails, in which...unknown to the victims, the Respondent was not entitled or willing to provide, i.e ., rental fraud. The Complainant argues that by sending such emails the...
2016-07-06 - Case Details
used email addresses associated with the disputed domain name for the purposes of committing fraud. Finally the Complainant states that the Respondent...Complainant and to attempt to commit fraud. B. Respondent The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant’s contentions as outlined in the amended Complaint and...
2016-06-01 - Case Details
Respondent; and that he agrees with Complainant's request for relief based upon Respondent's fraud in the registration process. 6. Discussion and Findings A...identity theft scheme and fraud upon Complainant and its vendors, by sending emails using the Disputed Domain Name and purporting to be from Complainant...
2016-01-20 - Case Details