cuzality's Journal: Scandal at GmailSwap.com

Scandal at gmailswap.com
Wednesday July 14, @02:08PM Rejected

On July 5th an angry f8paul wrote a lengthy missive and posted it to gmailswap (a site set up in mid April for those with Gmail invitations to swap them for various and sundry offers) accusing Shivam Parikh of scamming gmailswappers of of dozens of Gmail invitations, and threatening retribution.

A week later, Shivam posted this response to webhostingtalk.com, explaining that he was first hacked and then came under scrutiny at RegisterFly, which suspended all the domains he had registered as part of his many swaps. Mike, a gmailswap mod, posted a link to Shivam's response on the gmailswap site in an unusual thread (for gmailswap, which normally eliminates all threads which are not directly concerning a swap offer) which has carried all Shivam's most recent communication.

The latest from Shivam: "You will get your domain control back free and full as before." No word yet on whether the domains have been restored to the gmailswappers.

Your comments desired.

Strange

[mfh]

I find it all quite strange. But you should see the problems we had at first when we started out with Gmailforthetroops.com [gmailforthetroops.com]. It was hard to get it together, but after figuring out that PHPBB did the swapping system justice, we were okay with that. Of course in our system, there are no trades because we just want to send an invite to any democratic soldier in the world, not just limited to Americans or Canadians. We've had many non-soldiers try to scam invites. I had to ban a guy yesterday for trying to get