Domain Name Scam
Just a quick note to warn our clients that there had been an increase in spam recently from companies claiming that they are contacting you to help you protect your domain name.
The email will mention that a third party wants to register a domain name similar to yours and that they are now providing you with the opportunity (how benevolent) to register lot of other domain names (yourname.org, yourname.us, yourname.eu etc). Here is a typical email we recieved very recently:
Dear Sir/Madam 2009-4-21 We are a domain name registration service company in Asia,Last week we received a formal application submited by Yadu Investment Co.,Ltd. which wanted to use the keyword “websiteni” to register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn /.com.cn /.net.cn/.hk/ .asia/ domain names. After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration are same as your domain name and trademark. We aren’t sure whether you have any relation with this company. Because these domain names would produce possible dispute, now we have hold down this registration, but if we do not get your company’s an reply in the next 5 working days, we will approve this company’s application In order to handle this issue better, Please contact us by Fax ,Telephone or Email as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely etc
The scammers win when a victim goes on to needlessly register all the extra domain names through the scammer at highly inflated prices.