Letters to the Editor

Legal threats (Part 2)

I was alerted to this story on your site - eBay in human trafficking scandal. You show 3 web sites at the bottom of the article - even though it's only the last web site that is apparently related to the story.

I own Debbie Mumm, inc. and the Debbie Mumm web site - debbiemumm.com the Debbie Mumm store. We have absolutely no connection with this story. I demand you immediately remove any mention of our web site. Your behavior is incrediby irresponsible. If this isn't pulled off your site today I will pursue legal action againt your company for this damaging action.

Your actions are completely irresponsible. Your web site's presentation is clearly confusing and you are smearing not one, but too legitimate companies.

Your site was brought to my attention by Canadian law enforcement, which finds nothing about you web site amusing. Apparently they don't get the joke either.

Name and address supplied

And it goes on.

I'm starting to wonder how many customers in Exeter these guys have.

We've now updated the page in question to make it clear that eBay and Message-in-a-bottle.co.uk are in no way associated with human trafficking. Hopefully this will help to make it more obvious to people who are unable to grasp the concept of a spoof website what we do here.

We're not entirely sure what authority Canadian law enforcement has over a British website, but we're keen to find out, so please do get them to email us.

As for smearing the name of your website, you're doing a pretty good job of that yourselves.

Saluté.

- The Editor