Just an update guys, here is what Greer, Burns & Crain Ltd. sent me this email today. I love the fact they claim no involvement in the seizure of my funds and claim I was not "named as a party in the case and your email address is not listed anywhere in the case". Really? Then why did Paypal say I should contact Greer, Burns, & Crain as shown below when Paypal email me. And why the hell was my funds seized? I love the 2nd last paragraph of their email where they try to wash their hands of this by saying they are not liable for this for "by the actions independently taken by PayPal."
Right, Paypal on their own decided to seize my funds and give it to your client right?
From:
"Attorney" <[email protected]>
To:
"'Nikki F'" <[email protected]>
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Dear Nikki:
We represent Oakley, Inc. in a lawsuit against Chinese based counterfeiters.
We confirm that you were not named as a party in the case and your email
address is not listed anywhere in the case. As such, we are unsure why
PayPal restrained your account, as we did not instruct them to do so.
Our firm and our client had no involvement in the actions that led to your
inclusion in the PayPal freeze, other than to obtain a proper injunction
against counterfeiting entities. Your PayPal account was limited due
PayPal?s internal (and unknown to us) linking procedure. Any claim for
damages needs to be with PayPal, not our client (and certainly not with
GBC). You were never named as a defendant in the case and only received
emails from us because PayPal told us that they had linked your client?s
account to an actual counterfeiter in our case. Every action that GBC took
was proper and in compliance with the law.
Oakley's reliance on PayPal is reasonable under the circumstances, because
Oakley faces massive challenges in shutting down Chinese based counterfeit
websites. Chinese based counterfeiters go to great lengths to conceal their
identities and often use multiple fictitious names and addresses to register
and operate their massive network of Internet stores. In just the last 12
months Oakley has shut down over 6,500 counterfeit websites. Many of the
names and addresses used to register the website Internet stores are
incomplete, contain randomly typed letters, or fail to include cities or
states. Other domain names use privacy services that conceal the owners?
identity and contact information. They constantly create new Internet
stores using new fictitious names and addresses, including stealing
identities from their US based customers. In addition, they hijack
legitimate websites, email account and PayPal accounts, then use them to
facilitate the sale of counterfeit products. We have run across each of
these types of behavior over the past year in pursuing Chinese
counterfeiters on behalf of our clients.
For these reasons, there is no liability that attaches to our firm or our
client by the actions independently taken by PayPal.
In any case, we have contacted PayPal to request that they remove any
restriction placed on your account. Generally this process takes about one
business day. We will follow up with you once PayPal confirms that the
restraint has been lifted.
Sincerely,
Greer, Burns & Crain Ltd.