GoDaddy.com Fake Escrow Website robs people of money and property customescrow.com Scottsdale Arizona

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I am not sure what your grudge is with Godaddy, but it sure seems personal.

Now if you know of all this illegal activity actually going on, what REAL authorities have you reported it too?

"In other words, we won't investigate and suggest you go fly a kite. And one would need to spend lots of money to get that injuction from a court."

Or you could take the advice given to you in the paragraph prior to this one and report it to law enforcement, whose job it IS to investigate.

George, If you hire a computer and let a keystroke malware program infiltrate your operating system do you blame the hire company for having your bank accounts drained? If you are silly enough to fall for a Nigerian Scam do you expect Godaddy to reimburse you because your ISP used godaddy to register their domain name.

Surely you should take some responsibility for your own actions. You have to look at everything on the web as suspect until proved otherwise. The fake escrow companies stand out like the proverbial. If they have a nice website and state that they have been in business for years you simply do a whois and see how long the domain name has been registered. Usually it is less than a week so you know it is dodgy.

Godaddy is a registrar only, the same as you have thousands of different registrars in the USA. Godaddy is a target because they are the biggest and thus they have more criminals buying domain names from them than any other registrar. Similarly they have more honest operators than any other registrar. Please explain why they owe you money? Did you pay them any money? Do you expect them to nurse you through every online transaction you do and reimburse you if make a foolish mistake. This is the 21st century, times have changed and there are more scammers out there than ever before but from my personal experience neither Godaddy or it's CEO Bob Parsons are straight as a gunbarrel. Please be fair to all concerned - you are way wrong in this complaint.

i am sorry you are not allowed to see the evidence here because the editors, for their own good reasons delete the http links. i was expert in escrow fraud after one week. its easy. They put up a fake site get a few victims, use the same site with just a different name to do it again. Over and over year after year. Its exactly like the bank saying its just too hard to tell which are fake checks so we just cash them all.

This is the indictment:

Bob Parsons, GoDaddy, has failed to use any reasonable, ordinary care to prevent these crimes from taking place. If my credit card is used to order expensive goods, the goods must be delivered to my billing address or a mail sent to my billing address asking me to confirm the order. This is reasonable care. Bob has failed to do anything like this in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. This is so he can brag about millions of names registered. But how many were fraud ? Will Bob return this stolen money ?

George, I understand that you bear a huge grudge against godaddy.com but surely you can understand that they can't pull down a website on your or mine or anybody elses sayso. They would spend all their time in court defending claims for massive compensation. Are you aware that most people who use godaddy.com as their registrar don't host their domains with them? None of my domains are hosted by godaddy even though I am more than happy to use them as my registrar of choice and have done for years.

If you see what you suspect to be a fraudulent website notify the appropriate authorities in your country - not the registrar of the domain name. The registrar will abide by any court order but certainly can not take action based on a complaint by joe citizen.

There are further complainst against registrars hiding the domain name owners details. I don't hide any of mine but there have been times when I have felt like it because spammers use the whois service to capture your details and sell these details on. To this day I still have to wade through an average of 600 emails per day of which 30 are probably genuine. I would be justified in hiding my details for each of my domains.

Instead of devoting your time to a lost cause i.e. bringing godaddy.com to their knees, get a better understanding of the good they are doing for your economy. I am a proud Aussie but godaddy.com has received a substantial amount of money from me over the years which is injected straight into your local economy, providing jobs for Americans.

Godaddy.com does not support fraud or criminals or any other lawbreakers or lawbreaking. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place and cannot set themselves up as judge, jury and executioner in our cyber world - think about it!

All i have asked GoDaddy to do is ordinary care. This is actually required by icann, but not enforced. My bank does not cash checks drawn on my account without reading them. GoDaddy has not replied in years to any sugestions about how to better protect the public from fraud. Godaddy has no reply for to this complaint even though made sure the top level people were aware. When fake financial sites are found, abuse@godaddy.com replies that they cannot judge these things, even when obvious. Arrogance deserves an answer. GoDaddy ( and other registrars )will allow anybody to pretend to be me or you and commit any number of financial crimes.

Go read the victim stories - like the lady was trying to sell a watch at online auction to help pay for cancer treatment for her son. The money was stolen in part because any criminal can pretend to be a bank, shipping company or escrow service. Instead of charging a criminal $9 to register, charge them $9.50 and send me a mail asking if really am at this address and have really asked to have ten different imaginary bank websites. See, its that easy. But GoDaddy is arrogant - don't try to tell them what to do. just read the IPO and you will find it doesn't sound like a good investment anyway. (((ROR REDACTED LINK FOR SECURITY PURPOSES)))

CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

Hi George, I thought I might throw in my two cents worth even though you won't want to hear it. Godaddy.com is close to being the largest registrar in the world. Over the past 5 years I have registered many hundreds of dot com domains through them and even though I sold the web development arm of my business I still retain Godaddy.com as my registrar of choice for about 40 domains I own.

I want you to think about what you are asking godaddy to do. Anybody who wants to cripple their online opposition would simply have to lodge a complaint with godaddy.com and if you had your way godaddy would pull the plug on the website immediately and that would be that. Godaddy charges $8.95 to register a dot com domain for 12 months so their profit per domain would be a few dollars. You are asking them to employ their own private police force to investigate what would be in most instances frivolous complaints. They are a registrar for goodness sake. The police or FBI or other government bodies are trained to investigate fraud and law breaking of any sort.

If you have a complaint about somebody using the telephone for illegal purposes the phone company doesn't investigate, the law enforcement agencies do. The phone company is a service provider the same as a domain name registrar is. I would hate to think that godaddy had the power to do a thorough investigation of you or me or anybody else for that matter. I pay them $8.95 per domain per year and they ensure that nobody else can register my domain names - end of story!! They know nothing about my business and I don't know much about theirs. I point out that all of my domains are perfectly legal and don't contravene any laws.

I used to have an IT training school in which we taught all Microsoft products. A competitor lodged an anonymous complaint with Microsoft accusing me of not having licenced software. Microsoft wrote to me informing me that they had a complaint. I promptly faxed Microsoft my proof of licences for each computer and they apologised. It cost me time to defend myself against that action but George you are proposing to condone such vexatious actions against owners of websites. Don't get me wrong I hate the way the frauds and scammers have reduced the value of the internet but trained investigators should handle complaints, not a clerk in an office with no training.

Food for thought, I hope

Open Letter to all interested in stopping internet fraud:
Subject: Have a plan.

Many internet registrars are now hiding the registrant information. Would have no problem with this except the information is always unverified and on fraud websites it is always false. Victims of identity theft cannot know that many fraud webpage are registered in their name, perhaps using credit also in their name. This problem of unverified webpage ownship has continued for many years without any solution. It does no good at all for concerned individuals to spend their days arguing about a webpage only to have the registrars register three more identical pages with different names on different webhosts.

Proposal: All of us agree to follow this plan -

We need to all work together to convince Bob Parsons, GoDaddy, to change their policies and procedures to verify each registration. This can be done the way my online bank did it, one simple snail mail. GoDaddy can ignore me but can they ignore 100 of us ? We can give them a deadline to establish policies and procedures to protect the public.

"As a hosting provider, we cannot be expected to judge the alleged illegal activities you have mentioned. However, we are more than happy to quickly comply with any court-issued order, or official request by law enforcement (whose burden it is to determine the existence of illegal activities). We regularly work with courts and law enforcement from the local to the international level. As a result, we would recommend you seek an injunction from a court as the most efficient way to handle this situation."

Okay, so they won't. We have to all agree that there are only two sides in this war on internet fraud. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. We, the people, do not consent to be silent victims.

GoDaddy has IPO in progress. This is Initial Public Offering to investors. We need to all agree to try to make this company worthless. We can complain to the SEC and underwriters that GoDaddy is engaged in fraud and racketeering and should not be allowed to offer stock to public. We can encourage and assist all victims of identity theft related to GoDaddy websites to actually file lawsuits. We, if get organized, can file suit too, based on damages to business of all our members. We can post in all the internet forums advising investors not to buy the stock and make them aware that we are working for the stock price to go to zero. We can ask state and federal officials to begin investigations of fraud and racketeering at GoDaddy. We can ask all members of the media to do a story about internet registrars making false registrations and then hiding the information.

All interested parties can join one umbrella group to accomplish this. Lets call it the Internet Fraud Association ? If we can break the largest registrar we can say to the others, clean up or close up.

This is still a rough draft but i think you get the idea -

"You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? "Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit." A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor [can] a bad tree bear good fruit. "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. "Therefore by their fruits you will know them." Matthew 7:15-20

http://www.iinternational-shipping-cars.com/

it only takes the crooks a few days to get many victims and make lots of money but it take two months to get the fraud site off a GoDaddy Server.

http://www.shipp-auto.net/

another obvious fake but Bob Parsons and staff just can't see it. notice sent Sat Apr 29, 2006

i bet you can. time yourself. would it take you a month to close it or would you tell people to go file complints with court or government office. i am just asking GoDaddy to do what any rational, caring person would do. i wonder if Bob plays golf he's busy doing something besides setting policy for his company.

http://www.shipp-auto.net/

another obvious fake but Bob Parsons and staff just can't see it. notice sent Sat Apr 29, 2006

i bet you can. time yourself. would it take you a month to close it or would you tell people to go file complints with court or government office. i am just asking GoDaddy to do what any rational, caring person would do. i wonder if Bob plays golf he's busy doing something besides setting policy for his company.

http://www.shipp-auto.net/

another obvious fake but Bob Parsons and staff just can't see it. notice sent Sat Apr 29, 2006

i bet you can. time yourself. would it take you a month to close it or would you tell people to go file complints with court or government office. i am just asking GoDaddy to do what any rational, caring person would do. i wonder if Bob plays golf he's busy doing something besides setting policy for his company.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

notified abuse@godaddy.com more than 10 days ago about this one.

http://www.trans-shipping-inc.com/

but there they are today, pretending to be sipping comany and escrow company and anything else to get a dishonest buck. and GoDaddy allways gets his cut. can you say racket ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28crime%29

Racket is a term used to describe an illegal business, usually run as part of organized crime. Engaging in a racket is called racketeering.

it doesn't really matter if GoDaddy takes down the site in a day or a year because they will allow the same criminal to make as many sites exactly like as the criminal wants. paying with money stolen from ebay buyers and sellers.

identity theft, stolen credit cards. GoDaddy knows about all this. GoDaddy = GodFather ?

more information:

http://www.carbuyingtips.com/fraud.htm

GoDaddy.com notified of this one too, same answer.

GoDaddy also making money charging extra to hide the identity of the registrant

Bozo The Clown can use your credit card to pretend to be a bank or an escrow company and GoDaddy won't ask any questions.

http://www.trans-shipping-inc.com/

if you have lost money or property because of this, the info to sue GoDaddy is here

http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=07969287&type=CORPORATION