Old website copied and brought back to life by Russians

[podwin]

I had an eCommerce web site I shut down 4 years OK, (it was rubbish), it was with a shopping cart provider based in the UK.

It has reappeared with my (old) content, name and address, but you can't buy anything.

It has a link added to it about crypto currencies, which takes you to a website under construction.

I found the company of this website, and phoned the London number and ended up speaking to a Russian (in actual Russia).

So what can I do? I don't like my company name, and address on here, and also an old brand that I killed off years ago!

The shopping cart company don't seem bothered, even though it also has their name in the footer as is often the case.

Where have they got the old content from that hasn't been on line for 4 years or more?

[TonyRPH]

podwin said:

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Where have they got the old content from that hasn't been on line for 4 years or more?

Probably from here: https://archive.org/web/

[podwin]

TonyRPH said:

Probably from here: https://archive.org/web/

I have looked at that before but it didn't cross my mind people actually downloaded whole websites from it.

[TonyRPH]

podwin said:

I have looked at that before but it didn't cross my mind people actually downloaded whole websites from it.

Interestingly enough, I rescued a HiFi hobbyist site that went offline some time back in 2003 ish by doing just that..

Said site has gone on to become quite popular and I was even contacted by the former owner to tell me what a great job I was doing.

But in your case it all sounds a little nefarious.