We are a digital marketing firm doing SEO for many clients. We found that an unknown competitor of ours is doing the following illegal activities:
1. He copies using web copier tool the entire website of my clients and other competitors website.
2. Buy domain name and hosting with privacy protection and upload those copied website. (He replace contact details and logo. Use a fake company logo).
3. He blocks the website in India, so that our clients are not able to detect them. They are visible via VPN when we access from India.
Purpose:
1. Capitalizing on the unique content written by us.
2. May be Using those copied sites for phishing attacks on my clients customers.
3. Using them for Black HAT SEO so that our clients website loose rankings in Google.
What kind of legal actions we can take apart from sending DMCA Takedown notice to the hosting companies.