Facebook sues Mumbai-based firm for domain name fraud

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against 12 domain names registered by India-based proxy service Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd, to prevent fraud and stop the malicious use of the company and product names.

The proxy domain names were designed to deceive people by impersonating its family of apps, like: facebook-verify-inc.com, instagramhjack.com and videocall-whatsapp.com.

The lawsuit against the Mumbai-based company has been filed in Virginia, Facebook said in a statement late Monday.