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TechCrunch says ShoeMoney sues alleged Google employee for AdWords violations

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
15 years ago2,044 views

Not sure what the real situation is, but here's a quote from
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/07/shoemoney-sues-google-employee-for-adwords-violations/

<<Beginning 4 months ago, Schoemaker began to notice a new violator, who was sending an ad for “Shoemoney” to the domain myincentivewebsite.com. Repeated attempts to contact Google and the offending parties went unanswered (as did a Cease and Desist). (...) Schoemaker got a court ordered subpoena that ordered the violator’s webhost to disclose his personal information.

With his real name in hand, Schoemaker finally managed to get in touch with the alleged violator. The defendant claimed to be unaware of any breaches of Google’s Terms of Service or the Shoemoney trademark. Schoemaker isn’t convinced, stating that “he played dumb every time and was very deceitful with his responses”. (...)

That’s when things started to get strange. A friend of Schoemaker’s discovered that the violator had a number of friends on Facebook who worked for Google’s AdWords. A cached version of his LinkedIn profile stated that he is an employee at Google working as an AdWords Account Strategist, though the title has since been removed. A call to Google’s New York office revealed that someone with his name is listed in the directory, all but confirming Schoemaker’s suspicions that he was dealing with a Google employee.>>

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