Hello,

Thank you for your e-mail.

We will investigate the issue further from our end and should their be anything that violates our terms of service, swift action will be taken immediately.

Regards,

Todd - Team Leader
Abuse Department
Netfirms  Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From:   Land Rover Exchange Webmaster
Date:   Saturday, April 19, 2003  07:33 AM
To:   abuse@netfirms.com (abuse@netfirms.com); management@netfirms.com (management@netfirms.com)
Cc:   compliance@opensrs.org (compliance@opensrs.org); suggest@opensrs.org (suggest@opensrs.org)
Subject:  Probable Fraud At DEFENDERIMPORTS.COM

To Whom It May Concern:

I was able to use the member login password confirmation feature at

http://www.netfirms.com/members

to confirm that NETFIRMS.COM provides webhosting services to 
DEFENDERIMPORTS.COM. (TUCOWS, through its OpenSRS subsidiary, appears to be 
the registrar for DEFENDERIMPORTS.COM.)

Both NETFIRMS and TUCOWS should be aware that this company appears to be a 
front whose only true purpose is to engage in international wire fraud. I 
run the LANDROVEREXCHANGE.COM web site and this conclusion is made based upon the 
following interactions with DEFENDERIMPORTS.COM, including at least one 
explicit report of fraud which I received from an injured third party:

http://www.landroverexchange.com/listings/defenderimports.html

DEFENDERIMPORTS.COM claims to be a business of long standing reputation 
located in Birmingham, UK. Their only telephone contacts, however, are cell 
phone numbers and there is no reference to either their company or what 
they claim to be their physical address that I can find anywhere on the web 
(outside of their web site, that is). In addition, the ads which they 
originally placed for their company at my web site, LANDROVEREXCHANGE.COM, were placed 
using an Internet connection originating in Thailand.

Since I assume you would not allow a company to use your web hosting 
services in this way without making some effort to identify that they are 
in fact whom they say they are, please feel free to provide me with any 
information which would address and dispel the concerns raised in this 
message.

If you don't have solid evidence that these folks are legitimate, I would 
ask you to suspend their web site (and their domain registration) until 
such time as they give you evidence that you deem satisfactory. Doing so 
may help to protect innocent individuals who are likely to become victims 
of fraud if in fact this web site engaging in fraud.

Land Rover Exchange Webmaster