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Domain name spam

Posted July 24th, 2009 by peter

Several clients have been in contact with us this week enquiring about an email they received relating to their domain name.

Here is an example

Dear @ xxxxx ,

We are a domain name registration center. We have something important need to confirm with you. On the July 19th, 2009, We received an application formally, one company named ” xxxx Investment Ltd” wanted to register ” xxxx ” as their euro-american & asia-pacific domain names and Internet brand. After our initial examination, we found that this application issue involved your company name or trademark, Considering this may bring something effect to your company, so we inform you in no time.

In order to deal with this issue better, Please let the Principal contact us directly and as soon as possible if you considered these domain names and internet brand are important to you and there was necessary to protect them by registering them first.

We view your feedback very seriously and seek your kind cooperation in this matter! Thank you!

Kind regards,
Richard Davis

Senior Consulting Director

Internet Brand Security & Protection Dept.
Asia Internet Network Information Center
Brand Security Solutions Ltd (Branch Office)
Tel: +86-10101-75620-6698 ext.802 (Mon–Fri, 9am to 6:30pm,GMT+8)
Mail: Richard.Davis@BrandSecuritySolutions.com

The above all looks pretty official and believable – there is no hard sell.

We warn you that it is a rip off. The whole ideal is to sell you new domain names, normally .ch or .hk or other obscure (for us) domain names.

We strongly suggest that you do not respond and throw the email in the trash

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13 Responses to “Domain name spam”

  • Kerry Porter Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Thanks for that information-
    I haven’t had this happen yet, but I will be prepared when it does.

  • Pete Morrison Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Yes we too have received such an email

  • Tom Winand Says:
    August 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Thanks for the info I hate that and the renewal notices I get 1 month before a domain expires asking me to renew it for $30.

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  • Ellee Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Thanks for the heads up on that little scam! I haven’t received it yet, but aside from working as a mortgage broker, I also work part time as a virtual assistant and as such register domain names quite frequently.

    Ellee

  • Trelise Says:
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    This email arrived to us today, have taken your advice. Thanks.

  • Pascuale Vincitore Says:
    August 5th, 2009 at 2:08 am

    We receive the mail with spam of reference. We have follow your advice strongly suggesting that we do not respond and throw the email in the trash.
    Thank you very much.
    Pascuale
    Italy

  • Steve Green Says:
    August 11th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    Thank you. This company now seems to be targetting New Zealand companies.

  • Deanna Corbett Says:
    August 14th, 2009 at 8:57 am

    Thank you for this post. We received the same email today. Interestingly the supposed competing company name was in exactly the same format as above: “(ourbrandname) Investments Ltd”.

  • Ross Stewart Says:
    August 24th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Yep, we were targetted today and what aroused my suspicion is that for an English-sounding name, Richard Davis, there were a number of simple errors of grammar. Garbage, in fact. Then I googled the name and found this. Phew, thanks.
    Doesn’t it make you want to send a screamer back to the !@#$% !!

  • Kyle D Jan Says:
    August 25th, 2009 at 6:49 am

    Thank you for the information. It is important to know. I am sure you will stop many people from being taken advantage of. Thanks again.

  • Bakos Says:
    August 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Hi, thanks for this post. We received this solicitation today and am happy to read that this has happened before and the suggestion is to trash it.

  • Richard Good Says:
    August 29th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Thanks for the info. From the bad grammar (and the odd phone number) it looked like a scam , but it is good to be reassured.

    I Googled & found your website

  • Mike Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Thanks Pete blog and all the people who have added their comments. We received an identical email request today. Looks like NZ are next inline for these spam emails. Good to find this info on internet

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