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Is it possible to be sued for a facebook page?
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I created a facebook page, which I never used, just created it and then I let it there be. Until today, I was going throught my mail and saw a letter from a Company with the same name. There was nothing on the envelope just the name of the company and my name, no adress. They are trying to sue me for 500,000 euros for copyright infringment. They provided no information of whom they are just an email, with a Gmail domain. I have some suspicion regarding to this first, the Gmail domain, second when I responded to them the email came back saying that the email did not exist. Third i went only and i found nothing about the company nor Its logo. Forth, I called my countries autorities regarding the name of companies and no company with such name apeared. What should i think about all of This?
I agree with my colleagues that it does sound like a scam (and not a very good one if there's no way to respond to them). It does sound bogus & you have made some attempt to track it down, but whether or not you should to do anything else is not something you can ask on a Q&A forum like this one. The answers you get here are not legal advice & you cannot rely on them.
Receiving a demand letter for 500k euro is enough to cause an Asker to get advice from an Intellectual Property attorney. Details must be reviewed. The Asker needs counsel.
Not to quibble with any of my colleagues, but the actual answer to your question is "Yes." Even if you're not using the Facebook page for commercial purposes or in a way which would directly harm the holder of a trademark, they could theoretically sue you for it under certain circumstances. (If your page has no content, this probably isn't a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue.)
That being said, I agree completely that this sounds like a scam. It wouldn't hurt anything to have an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction look at it, but I don't think you need to prepare to flee the country or anything.
It's either an ineffectual scam as no reputable firm would initiate a claim or suit in this manner (e.g., no phone numbers to reach them?) OR, someone has hit you with a malware attack.
