Snapdeal continues its strong fight against cybercriminals and has secured a Delhi High Court order that has resulted in nearly 1200 fraudulent links being removed from Twitter.
In its petition filed, Snapdeal had asked for necessary action to be taken against scamsters, who were running fraudulent schemes on Twitter and were misusing the name of Snapdeal. Snapdeal had submitted that such misrepresentation is fraudulent and intended to deceive the unsuspecting general public into believing that they are dealing with the Snapdeal company.
Various entities that are in no way associated with Snapdeal had established URLs/links accessible through Twitter and sought to represent that they are the official twitter handles of Snapdeal. These were in violation of the copyright and registered trademarks of Snapdeal.
As part of the schemes, Scamsters used handles to display certain telephone numbers claiming these numbers to be that of Snapdeal’s customer care service. Unsuspecting individuals who called these numbers were then sought to be enticed with rewards like cars and other such offers and led to make deposits in accounts controlled by the scamsters in order to claim such rewards.
Snapdeal, therefore, sought an order directing Twitter to block access to the enumerated URLs/links.
Based on the complaint filed by Snapdeal, the Delhi High Court directed Twitter to remove nearly 1200 such web links. The court’s interim order came in a suit filed by Snapdeal. In the suit, Snapdeal has also impleaded various unidentified defendants who are the owners of the aforesaid URLs/links.
In December 2018, Snapdeal had secured a similar order from the Delhi High Court that directed the freezing of nearly 500 bank accounts used by scamsters to receive funds.
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