Facebook Sues An Indian Company For Using Fake Domain Names

Anil - Jun 15, 2020

As it turned out, these domains impersonated the real services to deceive people.

An Indian company named Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd. is stuck in a legal battle against Facebook. The proxy service company has been accused of illegally using product names in Facebook’s pool of brands, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp without permission.

Indian Company 1 — Facebook filed a lawsuit to shut the malicious use of these product names.

According to a spokesperson from Facebook, the social media giant already filed a lawsuit to shut the malicious use of these product names as well as prevent fraud in advance.

At least 12 domain names related to Facebook-owned brands were registered by Compsys and as it turned out, they impersonated the real services to deceive people, such as facebook-verify-inc(dot)com, insragramhjack(dot)com, or videocall-whatsapp(dot)com, etc.

Indian Company 2 — As it turned out, these domains impersonated the real services to deceive people.

Facebook reportedly reached out to Compsys for an explanation at the start but there’s still no response from the Indian company at all.

While people are susceptible to being scammed by online fraud, Facebook stated that the lawsuit against Compsys is an inevitable process of tackling such problems. In fact, the company scans not only domain names but also apps that float on the Internet and infringe its brands on a regular basis, so it’ll be able to raise people’s awareness and keep cyber theft at bay.

This isn’t the first time Facebook takes legal actions to protect users and the company's own trademarks as a number of similar cases were also found in the past. Compsys meanwhile keeps silent about the lawsuit, although it should have shown its business transparency or something like that.