As a long time the German justice not exactly covered itself with glory when it comes to criminal prosecution and thus the only truly effective elimination of subscription traps went, it seems there to have woken up and there mitlerweile.
How it for several weeks, a vibration through the subscription traps scene, which will probably be a reason why the known Mahnanwalt Olaf tank suddenly the urging of unjustified claims ceased and major fraudulent sites like Top -of-Software.de obviously not interested in new "customers" were. The advertising of many such sites on warez sites, Stream Hoster and Google Ads in any case was set instantaneously.
mid-December 2010 came the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court concluded that the fraudulent sites rated to the so-called Frankfurt gyro are professional securities fraud (pdf ) and now also made the Hamburg justice seriously, and took two subscription traps operator in jail is said to have been
Those arrested are the leaders of online Downloaden.de which 99downloads.de formerly also for the subscription trap responsible. As was typical at
subscription traps set up a network of companies over straw men. The most famous of these is probably Michael Bardenhagen been his, on several TV shows, such as file and c't TV reported.
At Mr. Bardenhagen is, according to a TV report a debt truck driver assigned to this form (his own words) at first unaware of the practices and knew with promises that everything was perfectly legal, its name for several companies and domain registrations against a amount of money was made available.
The actions of the prosecutor and LKA Hamburg besides total of about 1.5 million were seized €.
were already in "ongoing operations" of the subscription traps already seized several different accounts by the authorities, what the cheaters but did not stop to continue their shady business.
POL-HH: 110207-1. Professional fraud - prosecutors and LKA execute arrest warrants and search warrants
Hamburg (ots) - time of the crime: the end of 2008
crime scenes: Hamburg and Lower Saxony
officials of the state criminal office for computer crime and copyright violations (LKA 54) together with the public prosecutor in Hamburg, two arrest warrants and enforced a total of 70 decisions. Both 27 - and 30-year-old main suspect is accused of cheating several thousand injured by so-called "pay-traps" and an overall loss of nearly 5 million € to have caused. Since mid-2009
refunded several thousand victims in lawsuits in Germany to the responsible public prosecutors because they had received bills from 60 to 80 euros for allegedly completed by them, paid subscription contracts. The notifier were sent to a large extent debt collection calls.
for setting the subscription sites on the Internet is a network of nine operating companies of labor was responsible. These companies were based in Hamburg and Lüneburg (Lower Saxony). On the website, programs were offered, in principle, free of charge or at least as a trial could be obtained. The Accused it had not been permitted by the rights holders to use these programs economically. It is suspected of copyright infringement.
The large number of reporting party stated that there was no cost to the website or this regard was deliberately concealed by the accused. Thus, there is a suspicion of commercial fraud.
DOJ's Office of Criminal Investigation led to the trace of a 27-year-old Lüneburg, together with the 30-year-old another main accused, six people had used straw as managing director. To complicate the criminal and civil claims, the companies, accounts and office space after a short time closed.
than 65,000 victims paid for reminders and debt collection claims nearly 5 million Euro to the accounts of the accused.
The raids in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Würzburg, and Lueneburg Süderlügum enforced investigators two arrest warrants and arrested nearly 1.5 million €. In addition, extensive evidence has been secured, which is yet to be evaluated. DOJ's Office of Criminal Investigation is continuing.
The two accused were arrested after they applied to a magistrate judge, the arrest warrants were issued.
Source:
http://www.presseportal.de/polizeipresse/pm/6337/1761297/polizei_hamburg
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