March 2004 - Volume 4, Issue 2

Dear Webmaster,

I work for a company called ***** that is in the internet services business. Our legal counsel has brought to our attention that someone is cyber-jacking your website using our corporate content as a lure.

According to our legal firm, this activity (called "cyber-jacking") is illegal, and we are currently in the process of investigating the individuals behind this activity. A key component of a cyber-jacking is to involve an unrelated site that allows individuals to make free postings. These cyber-jackers have posted one of our press releases on your website to act as a lure in the search engines, and then are following it with additional postings that direct people to their other ventures (which on your site include the posting of links to pornographic material).

You can see these postings at http://mcel.pacificu.edu/cgi-bin/webbbs/h450/h450.pl?read=249

You may not have noticed our initial email to you about this – sent to you 1 week ago.

As you are an innocent victim in this web ring – we want to give you the opportunity to take this down prior to contacting the search engines – ie: Google which could harm your search engine rankings.

(1) as a copyright infringement, see this page:
http://www.google.com/dmca.html
(2) and as a spam incident, see this page:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

As our press release posting and the other spam postings on your website have nothing to do with the nature or mission of your site, we would appreciate it if you could have all of these postings removed from your site as soon as possible. If you like, we can monitor your site to watch for any reoccurrence of this activity and inform you where appropriate.

Signed ******

March 2004 - Volume 4, Issue 2

March 2004

Volume 4, Issue 2

Berglund Paper

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