Combatting Brand Theft & Site Cloning

Has your brand been stolen online, or your business website or Facebook page been cloned?

This can be devastating for any business, and create significant risk to your cash flow, clients, and brand trust. It can even create legal confusion as clients don't know who they are doing business with.

While this is a difficult situation to battle, there's a lot you can do. The Internet has evolved many mechanisms and legal paths to help combat these forms of fraud.

How we Can Help

Combatting a Fraud Situation

If you have an active fraud situation occurring, our focus is on research and complaint / takedown filings around where the problem-infringements are happening.  

This might include;

• Domain TLD registrar filings
• DMCA takedowns
• Email server abuse filings
• Facebook, X, and LinkedIn abuse filings
• Filing blacklist removal requests, if needed
• Other abuse filing, depending on the affected systems

Our focus is on researching as thoroughly as possible within the time budget you want to allocate, gather evidence, and to perform the key abuse filings with technical service providers.

We will provide you with all of our research finding for you to pass to your legal team if further legal-system action is needed to protect your business.

Defensive Strategies

Larger clients usually want to go further with some defensive strategies.

This typically includes;

• Vetting email systems to ensure they cannot be easily spoofed by spammers
• Checking that trademark filings are in place
• Researching and registering "shadow" domains that reflect the brand
• Using "verified" features within social media

Important Notes

Sygnal is not a law firm and cannot directly help you with legal work or legal filings. We help firms with evidence gathering, digital investigation, and the technical aspects of abuse and fraud filings.

It's important to note that this service cannot be delivered with any guarantees of our ability to take down an offending site, or block someone from fraudulently using your brand. We can follow all of the policies and procedures in place with Google, Facebook, and domain registrars, however there is no way for us to guarantee that those businesses will take appropriate action on the fraud. Generally results are good, but you may need to use the legal system to ensure appropriate brand safety for your business.

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