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Originally posted by KRL
The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday passed by voice vote a bill that would boost prison time for scammers who register Web sites under false pretenses. Sponsored by Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) and now heading to the Senate, would up jail time by seven years for identity thieves who "knowingly falsely register a domain name."
Online investigators have found a potpourri of clearly fraudulent information entered in Web site registration records, ranging from bogus 555-555-5555 phone numbers to street addresses that rival "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?" in adolescent-level humor.
According to Smith, up to ten percent of the Internet's 30 million domain names may be registered under false identities.
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good god. that is incredible.