Steps to take if you have been ripped-off by a copy-cat government website

missprice

hpuse wrote: »

Hey Pollycat, long time...how are you?

FBI, i.e the world's largest intelligence and law enforcement organisation calls people who are faking government websites 'criminals'

What me, i.e an ordinary citizen of UK was doing with post#1 was an attempt to help people who has lost money to copycat operators.
At times I had to be thick on posters who come here to support the legal existence of these copycat websites... do you now see the difference or still no difference?

Re: George Micheal's post, it does not prove anything!

The largest IA is the CIA.
FBI doesn't even rate in the top ten IAs

And still what has a USA thing have to do with UK laws?

foxtrotoscar_2

hpuse wrote: »

Hey Pollycat, long time...how are you?

FBI, i.e the world's largest intelligence and law enforcement organisation calls people who are faking government websites 'criminals'

What me, i.e an ordinary citizen of UK was doing with post#1 was an attempt to help people who has lost money to copycat operators.
At times I had to be thick on posters who come here to support the legal existence of these copycat websites... do you now see the difference or still no difference?

Re: George Micheal's post, it does not prove anything!

Yet again you are wrong it shows you incapable of understanding even simple things when it's plainly explained to you. You cannot compare what is happening in the UK with what is happening in the USA. They are two entirely different things ie they are not the same or even similar.

shaun_from_Africa

Whilst some people here like to call them 'service industry providers'
Law enforcement folks in uncle Sam's land call them criminals.

Source:http://www.mass.gov/essexda/docs/publications/alcohol-and-drugs/social-host-tagged.pdf

Serving alcohol to someone under the age of 21 is a criminal offence in the USA but it's not generally against the law in the UK.
Comparing the different laws and offences regarding alcohol in both the UK and the USA makes about as much sense as comparing what a copycat website company does in the UK to a company operating in the USA with the sole intention of stealing private data and using this for ID theft.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

hpuse wrote: »

Re: George Micheal's post, it does not prove anything!

Leave him out of it!
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/06/george-michael-arrested

Jesus, how much longer!

RichardD1970

Daughter asked me to check out about getting her a provisional driving licence.

Thought these ads had been banned and a team of engineers were working around the clock to stop these companies?




On a side note, why do I even have ads? I have Ad Blocker Plus installed!? :mad:

wealdroam

RichardD1970 wrote: »

On a side note, why do I even have ads? I have Ad Blocker Plus installed!? :mad:

Check your ABP Options. Ensure the box Allow some non-intrusive advertising is not checked.

bod1467

You might also want to try uBlock instead of ABP. (I was recently pointed to it via the Techie Stuff board and am trying it out). Seems to do the same thing as ABP and is (anecdotally) quicker (in that it seems less resource hungry).

hpuse

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Serving alcohol to someone under the age of 21 is a criminal offence in the USA but it's not generally against the law in the UK.
Comparing the different laws and offences regarding alcohol in both the UK and the USA makes about as much sense as comparing what a copycat website company does in the UK to a company operating in the USA with the sole intention of stealing private data and using this for ID theft.

Ah! Shaun here you are again...
Let me tell something...misrepresenting or disguising 'age' (akin to disguising the actual service as in copycating) to get alcohol served is also an offense in the UK if you are under 18 :rotfl:

You can be stopped, fined or arrested by police if you’re under 18 and drinking alcohol in public

Source: https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law

Pollycat

I must be confused.

The post by shaun from Africa quoted age 21 but the link provided by hpuse refers to age 18.

Doesn't sound like comparing the same thing at all.
AFAIK, nobody mentioned the legal drinking age in the UK.

shaun_from_Africa

hpuse wrote: »

Ah! Shaun here you are again...
Let me tell something...misrepresenting or disguising 'age' (akin to disguising the actual service as in copycating) to get alcohol served is also an offense in the UK if you are under 18 :rotfl:

Correct, but bearing no relevance whatsoever to the post of mine that you were commenting on.

My comment, which as usual you totally failed to address, preferring instead to attempt to change the subject which was that your comparing offences committed in the USA to the activities of copycat websites in the UK is meaningless
especially when the actions being carried out by the companies in the link that you provided are totally different to the actions being carried out by the copycat services here in the UK.

I will ask again. Why do you think that the FBI investigating companies who set up websites with the sole intention of harvesting personal information for ID theft purposes and who do not provide the service being advertised is in any way similar to service providing companies in the UK?