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Message Subject Um, why is believeinmermaids.com seized by DHS???
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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It's not real, sweetie. It's just an ad campaign for the Animal Planet series. The website is part of the ad. Most movie makers do that, now. Like when The Dark Knight, and Blair Witch came out.
 Quoting: It' an Ad Campaign 13176070


it's against the law to use the DHS seal if you're not the DHS

I doubt discovery (the discovery channel) would do that
 Quoting: ^TrInItY^


I thought that was true for TSA? I never saw anything about DHS...
 Quoting: Laura Bow


I would assume that IMPERSONATING a government official by using official seals of ANY government department without proper authorization would be criminal and is likely to be a FELONY / Indictable offence.

DISCOVERY Channel's legal department would be completely aware of the laws regarding impersonation and would 100% never allow it.

A government department would certainly have the Justice Dept prosecute any offenders using their seal within the timeframe allotted by the statute of limitations.

Is it fake by that criteria?
Certainly not.

Web source code means absolutely nothing as to whether or not a seizure is "real" or is a case of impersonation.

DHS and ICE would likely have several variations of their notice which would function differently according to their needs for each environment that they encounter.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1673157



This image, likely the source for the one in question is in the public domain, so people can do with it whatever they like:

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
 
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