Tag Archives: Scams

Skills Train High Court Victory — What does this mean for Consumer Forums?

Skills Train recently took a civil action for defam­a­tion in the High Court and suc­cess­fully obtained judge­ment against con­sumer forum hosts Digital Trends for defam­a­tion. They were awar­ded £50,000 in rela­tion to inac­cur­ate com­ments made by con­trib­ut­ors to the forum in which Skills Train were accused of run­ning scam Dis­tance Learn­ing Courses. Skills Train made a strongly worded press release, which also sug­ges­ted this decision had implic­a­tions for for­ums that host con­sumer reviews and com­ment­ary. So, are con­sumer for­ums in danger?

October 16, 2010 – 6:25 pm | By Cardiff Legal | Posted in Business Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The Price of Privacy & The Cost of Free

Most of us have prob­ably now heard of ACS:Law who were hacked by 4Chan in response to ACS’s prac­tice of mass mail­ing let­ters to alleged file sharers in the UK for illeg­ally down­load­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing Copy­right material.

October 5, 2010 – 11:24 pm | By Cardiff Legal | Posted in Business Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Business Scams and Sharp Practice

“54% of busi­nesses have been a vic­tim of fraud or online crime and a sig­ni­fic­ant 26% of busi­nesses are deterred from buy­ing and selling online because of the fear and risk of online fraud.”

May 31, 2010 – 9:14 am | By Cardiff Legal | Posted in Business Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)