To Whom It may Concern, iThreat Cyber Group, Inc (“ICG”) has been engaged to help our client, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, to address a series of posts on Backpage and other websites including Google's Google Project Hosting, relating to advertisements offering illegal services using Hyatt Hotels and Resorts locations and brand name.
The posters falsely state, impersonate or otherwise misrepresent their identities and/or associations including, but not limited to, the use of a pseudonyms, or misrepresenting their current or previous locations and agency names, or affiliations with the Hyatt hotel or entity, past or present. Investigation efforts, which included identification of the posters and undercover operations, revealed the posters have no direct or indirect association to Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. ICG called the phone numbers included in listings. These phone calls confirmed that the individuals in the enumerated posts are offering sexual services in exchange for cash. Furthermore, ICG was able to confirm that these individuals are not located or based from Hyatt locations, nor are the phone numbers listed or individuals are linked to an employee of Hyatt. During the course of our investigation, ICG was able to find and confirm that a great majority of the posts originated from a singular entity or agency. The offending posts claim or use "Hotel Hyatt Regency EsℭOℛts" or "Grand Hyatt Santacruz East Escorts" or "Hyatt Regency Andheri ! Mumbai Escorts" or "Hyatt Regency Mumbai" and other similar branding to advertise sexual services of women in exchange of monies, usually around 15000.00 Rupees. To date, the list of active offending posts is as follows: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=96989 ICG requests that the above mentioned URL be disabled or redacted immediately based on violation of Google Project Hosting: User Content and Conduct Policy which states that users can not misuse services for: 1. Sexually Explicit Material: Do not post content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. Do not post content that drives traffic to commercial pornography sites. 4. Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior: Do not use our products to impersonate other people. 6. Intellectual Property: Don't infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and other proprietary rights. For more information or to file a DMCA request, please visit our copyright procedures Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=ts.cs&ts=1114905. 7. Illegal Activities: Don't use our products to engage in illegal activities or to promote dangerous and illegal acts. ICG requests that these posts, enumerated below, be disabled immediately, based on a violation of Google Project Hosting: User Content and Conduct Policy, which indicates that Google responds to notices of alleged trademark and copyright infringement, and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The offender and account holder is found using Hyatt Hotels and Resorts brand and name in the reported post, which is in violation of Google's Terms of Use: 6. Intellectual Property: Don't infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and other proprietary rights. For more information or to file a DMCA request, please visit our copyright procedures Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=ts.cs&ts=1114905. Attempts to report the above posts for removal via the Google report function for 'Sexually Explicit Material' has yielded no success. Please advise if you have any questions or concerns regarding this request. You may reach us at helpd...@icginc.com for further information or clarification. Our number is 609-806-5000 and our mailing address is iThreat Cyber Group, Inc. P.O. Box 3599 Princeton, NJ 08543-3599. Thank you for any cooperation in this matter. Best, ICG Investigative Staff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code-hosting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code-hosting@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
