{"id":554,"date":"2007-04-27T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=554"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:52:17","slug":"what-is-sobonito-investments-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"What is Sobonito Investments Up to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nSobonito Investments (hereafter, Sobonito), which is incorporated in Limassol, Cyprus, runs a website at imlive.com.  It&#8217;s not the content this website has that we complain about.  But it&#8217;s the way they have attempted to obtain visitors to their website.  Several days ago, an associate of Sobonito attempted to post comments with plenty of hyperlinks to hometown.aol.com free webpages, at which visitors would be redirected to imlive.com.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, Sobonito was sued by U.S. Federal Trade Commission back in 2005.  And the company settled for use of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2005\/02\/sobonito.shtm\">affiliates to advertise its Web sites and induce consumers to purchase the adult content<\/a>,&#8221; according to FTC.  But criminals never quit until they eventually end up in jail.<\/p>\n<p>MacHouse encourages other WordPress blog webmasters to join the force to file a complaint with FTC against Sobonito.  The complaint form is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/rn.ftc.gov\/pls\/dod\/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01\">FTC&#8217;s website<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nClick on the button to watch an old video showing the damage an associate of Sobonito attempted to cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/mac\/anti-spam\/imlive_com1.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/graphics\/button.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" alt=\"VTC\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nReference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/os\/caselist\/0323206\/0323206.shtm\">FTC File No. #032-3206 and Case No: 005C 580<\/a>, pursuant to Federal Trade Commission versus Sobonito Investments Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Sobonito Investments Ltd: 1 Griva Digheni St., Stavros Pittas court. 4th floor, Limassol 3030, Cyprus<br \/>\nSobonito Investments Ltd: 10800 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33161<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sobonito Investments (hereafter, Sobonito), which is incorporated in Limassol, Cyprus, runs a website at imlive.com. It&#8217;s not the content this website has that we complain about. But it&#8217;s the way they have attempted to obtain visitors to their website. Several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}