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website owners are found by an automatic searching of the WHOIS database and sent automatically generated letters. while the solicitation does say that it is a solicitation and is not a bill, it mentions several times to "please Remit payment on or before DATE". due to this and other various characteristics, this is misrepresented as a bill and has fooled hundreds of website owners into paying because they thought that their website would be shut down if they did not.

the companies website, www.icls.net , is listed to Michelle Doyle in San Jose, California but has post office boxes in Chicago , New York and has various payments sent to offices in the Netherlands and Zaire . It has been under investigation, and is currently, by the US Postal Inspection Service .