In October 2001, the Federal Trade Commission charged John Zuccarini for both Pagejacking and Mousetrapping. Zuccarini employed more than 5,500 copycat Wed addresses to redirect surfers from their intended Internet destinations. Once they were in one of his made sites they would be mousetrapped and their screen would be covered with adult-oriented ads, such as Internet gambling and pornography. Zuccarini had several variations for many popular children's sites. If the child had accidentlly spelled the domain wrong or inverted a term then they were sent to his "adult" sites. Since they could not escape the undesired Web site because they were in a mousetrap, windows after windows would pop up with the same URL on it. One FTC staff member closed out 32 seperate windows, leaving just two windows on the taskl bar. Once he selected the back button seven new windows opened with the bad URL, he watched the whole thing start over again. The FTC alleged that such practices were unfair and deceptive and in violation of federal law. The court order prohibits Zuccarini from: redirecting or obstructing consumers on the Internet in connection with the advertising, promoting, offering for sale, selling, or providing any goods or services on the Internet, the World Wide Web or any Web page or Web site; and launching the Web sites of others without their permission. The defendant will be required to give up $1,897,166 in ill-gotten gains. The court also ordered certain bookkeeping and record-keeping requirements to allow the FTC to monitor the defendant's compliance with the court's order.
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