Beware of the DMCA scam to get free links

Perhaps you have received or will receive one of these following emails:

Examples of mail on this DMCA scam

Dear owner of https://housseniawriting.com/,

You are receiving this legal infringement notice from Nationwide
Legal Trademark Department due to the unauthorized usage of our client’s
picture.

The use of this image: https://i.imgur.com/sTD9ZCq.png on this page
: https://housseniawriting.com/ is fine, as long as our client
(immediate.net) is fully credited.

The credit must appear under the image or the footer of the page and
be clickable to https://immediate.net/ within 5 working days. We
await your response to confirm this has been completed, removing the image
does not resolve the case.

Failure to do so in this time frame, will result in legal case (No.
82263) proceeding under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s Section 512(c)
(“DMCA”) for past and or current usage.

Past usage of the image can be seen in the records on Wayback Machine
(https://web.archive.org) – a permanent public archive of the web, which
will be called upon as evidence in this case.

This email serves as the required official notice.

Regards

Alicia Weber
Trademark Attorney

Nationwide Legal
401 Congress Ave. #1540,
Austin, TX 78701

alicia@nation-law.info
www.nation-law.info

Or, the following email is similar, it’s just that they will take another image and another page from your site.

Dear owner of https://actualite.housseniawriting.com/technologie/2017/06/20/oui-le-surface-laptop-est-vraiment-une-grosse-merde/22357/,

You are receiving this legal infringement notice from Nationwide
Legal Trademark Department due to the unauthorized usage of our client’s
picture.

The use of this image: https://i.imgur.com/wmB0Yhn.png on this page
: https://actualite.housseniawriting.com/technologie/2017/06/20/oui-le-surface-laptop-est-vraiment-une-grosse-merde/22357/
is fine, as long as our client (Quantum Ai) is fully credited.

The credit must appear under the image or the footer of the page and
be clickable to https://quantumaitrading.net/ within 5 working
days. We await your response to confirm this has been completed, removing
the image does not resolve the case.

Failure to do so in this time frame, will result in legal case (No.
82263) proceeding under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s Section 512(c)
(“DMCA”) for past and or current usage.

Past usage of the image can be seen in the records on Wayback Machine
(https://web.archive.org) – a permanent public archive of the web, which
will be called upon as evidence in this case.

This email serves as the required official notice.

Regards

Alicia Weber
Trademark Attorney

Nationwide Legal
401 Congress Ave. #1540,
Austin, TX 78701

alicia@nation-law.info
www.nation-law.info

Don’t fall for the trap, it’s a scam

So when spammers don”t get free links to boost their sites which stink of shit, they use threats. As bloggers are often poor and afraid of the slightest legal action or sanction, there are some who risk making these links.

Already, a DMCA complaint never uses generic contact emails or a site that has barely existed for a few months, which is the case for the alleged legal firm cited in the email. Then a real DMCA complaint won’t ask you for credit, but to remove the image or article.

And finally with the advent of AI today, if it’s a real complaint, you can just delete the image, if it’s problematic, and make AI images that are automatically in the public domain. What’s interesting is that this isn’t the first time, because we had something similar, but in the form of comments in 2022. We had a sons of a bitch who commented on one of your articles asking you to do a link on his shit otherwise he would take you to court.

Remember that the first case of spam in history was done by lawyers and legal firms. They have been crooks, are crooks and will continue to be crooks.