
During their investigation,the officers managed to acquire luxury goods,baby carriers and many other goods from the seized websites.Many of the goods the federal law enforcement officers had acquired from the websites were shipped from outside of the United States.
Moreover,ICE announced that the websites gave their customers a type of security certificate ,in order to show the buyers that the sites were legitimate.
“The impostor sites were simply a fraud from start to finish and served no purpose other than to defraud and dupe unwary shoppers,” said ICE Director,John Morton .
Since the start of the “Operation in Our Sites” started in June 2012,The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have seized a total of 839 domain names.229 out of these 839 domain names have been forfeited to the U.S. government.
ICE hasn’t released the list of the 70 seized domain names.