The one time you might *want* to contact a bank ...

[meagain]

Spotted this. Went here in a vain attempt to report. Could not get anywhere.

 

Methinks a pot-shot email to abuse-at-cbonline as well as the hosts of the website is in order. It is generally accepted that abuse@ should go to a human - anyone operating a site where it does not should be taken out and shot.

[Rich44]

Yipes if anyone was to fall for that they should be taken out and shot with the site admin for not having abuse@ emails read.

 

For .UK domains there should be a form at Nominet to fill in to have the domain pulled really, in fact I dont know why the Gov dont change the law to make it illegal to register derivations of bank names, we already have cybersquatting regulations so Clydesdale could easily get that domain pulled and transferred to their ownership too.

 

Mind by linking to the site if the creator has half a brain they'll see the logfile and see this thread so hopefully they might then pull their own site.

 

You also get in touch with this site

 

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), combating child abuse images and criminal material online

[rosysparkle]

I phoned Clydesdale bank to see if they were aware of this website but they sounded completely clueless. I pointed out that there was nowhere on their site to report phishing emails or this fake site but I don't think they knew what I meant.

[Rich44]

Thats very worrying in this day and age, may well be worth reporting them to the banking ombudsman as well

[ScarletPimpernel]

Quite the worst implemented and most obvious [problem] banking site I've ever seen. I mean, there's no mention of 'admin fees' or penalty charges anywhere...

[meagain]

This may also have unintended consequences. The preferred weapon in the corporate suppression armoury is the trademark infringement lawsuit. If someone says "XYZ bank are thieves", it leaves them open to a libel claim. If on the other hand they say "We believe XYZ bank are thieves", they are making a legitimate statement of personal belief. As a result, XYZ instead sues for trademark infringement. In general, if XYZ fails to protect its trademark, such a case will fail, so by allowing someone to use the CB logo in such a way, CB are effectively shooting themselves in the foot.

 

While I remember, mail to abuse@sitehost did bounce (I have duly reported them to RFC-Ignorant.org Home for what it's worth). I will not be reporting them to the IWF, however, since its very existence makes me sick to the stomach, let alone its methods.

[chocolatte]

Quite the worst implemented and most obvious [problem] banking site I've ever seen. I mean, there's no mention of 'admin fees' or penalty charges anywhere...

 

So funny, yet so right! LMAO

[389shell]

That is one quality website! I thought I had forgotton to put my glasses on everything was that blurred, is it a word template do you think? lol

[delboytrotter]

I was almost going to open an account with them, i doubt they could rip me of more than my current bank.

 

HA HA

[ICY]

Love the £965 setup fee, i spat my beer all over the screen of my laptop laughing at that pmsl

[meagain]

Sssshh! The real banks might hear you, thinking it's a genuine idea to replace their steep penalties!

[Rich44]

Whats wrong with the IWF? Not heard anything specific about it and seeing as theyre the only organisation even attempting to collect information (something the police would do well to realise).

[meagain]

What's wrong with IWF? Everything. They have this whole "We are the Internet Police and we are always right" demeanour about them. As far as I am aware they don't deal with fraud, only "child abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK" (as obscenely ugly as Word/FrontPage design might be), which is generally defined as "whoever's annoyed us today". I know someone who got on the wrong end of Cleanfeed - it's not pleasant.

 

Their operation is roughly along these lines:

 

1. Someone tells them you're a filthy stinking paedophile.

2. They blacklist your Web site. Suddenly your site is inaccessible from most UK ISPs.

3. You pin it down to Cleanfeed, and ask IWF to take you off the list. IWF say they'd love to help, but as far as they're concerned, you're a filthy stinking paedophile - case closed. PS - there is no blacklist.

4. You write to IWF again, pointing out that you definitely aren't hosting anything indecent, as they'd know if they would go and look. They ignore this - after all, you're a filthy stinking paedophile. You're also still not on the blacklist, because there is no blacklist.

5. You try once more to point out to them that "Hot Tots" is actually the brand name you use to sell goods to mothers of young children. They get sick and tired of having the same filthy stinking paedophile (i.e. you) emailing them to get their filthy stinking child porn site (i.e. your work-safe, entirely-devoid-from-pornograpy, business site) taken off the top secret blacklist which they keep reminding you does not exist.

6. You file requests under Data Protection and Freedom of Information. They say they can't release the information in the former because you are a filthy stinking paedophile who should be in prison already, and they refuse your request in the latter on the grounds that it would adversely affect the administration of justice (i.e. their attempt to prosecute you for being a filthy stinking paedophile).

 

7. ???

 

8. PROFIT! (i.e. your site is visible to the UK and most of Europe again)

 

Nobody has quite figured out what step 7 is yet.

[basil the birman]

Post 13 - Ha ha ha sooo funny I nearly wet myself:lol::lol:

[elsinore]

Love the £965 setup fee, i spat my beer all over the screen of my laptop laughing at that pmsl

 

Hah! Peanuts! The business account set-up fee is £1400 !!

 

Els

[Rich44]

Wow thats pretty nasty although I thought it was common knowledge that such a blacklist exists as its been reported in the media numerous times

 

In fact theres an article here that proves there is a list

BT puts block on child porn sites | UK News | The Observer

[meagain]

Wow thats pretty nasty although I thought it was common knowledge that such a blacklist exists as its been reported in the media numerous times

 

Utterly confused as to what brought on this reply ...

[Rich44]

I thought it was common knowledge that there was a blacklist so seems pretty stupid for them to then deny that there is on as i've read about it on numerous occasions in various places

[stroke a badger]

In case anybody is interested.

 

Whois.Net

 

Something tells me this the website in question may not be genuine (Well there are other indicators) :o

[ukiainib]

send a e-mail to Affordable Web Hosting with MyCFHost.com as they are the ones who are hosting the site

[meagain]

send a e-mail to Affordable Web Hosting with MyCFHost.com as they are the ones who are hosting the site

 

While I remember, mail to abuse@sitehost did bounce ...

 

[meagain]

I thought it was common knowledge that there was a blacklist so seems pretty stupid for them to then deny that there is on as i've read about it on numerous occasions in various places

 

Stupid? Remember we are talking about those holier-than-thou sunshine-from-the-Daily-Mail's-elbow moral crusaders the IWF here. When they let the stupidity of something get in the way of them doing it, wake me up - it's likely a sign of the apocalypse.

[ukiainib]

Haa Haa Haa, silly ole me, I must remeber to do it the proper way in the future, and use the numpty abuse email address.

[meagain]

Aye. A document called RFC 2142 sets out standards for email addresses that should accept mail, which will often be the only way for someone to reach you if you are running a domain of your own. After all, if your email address is on a Web site, what happens if it goes down?

 

Anyway, as I said, I already tried emailing them, and it bounced (returned undelivered).

[ukiainib]

Sorry, your correct emailing mycfhost.com is no good, but if you use a combination of tracert and whois, youll get a better idea on who to send the emails to. Dispite all the whois bits pointing to a location in Arazona, it is infect in India, myhsphere.biz