Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Domain registration scam - scaremongering tactics

If you should receive an email, of the following form, please please disregard this. It is simply a scam - to scare you into registering domains with them. There are several registrars in Asia using this technique at the moment.

Of course, should you wish to broaden your portfolio of names, and register your name in additional ccTLD's (country code top level domain) then we'd be happy to assist with this. But the following example is purely scaremongering.

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(This is very urgent, Please forward this to your CEO.)

Dear CEO,
We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china, and we have something about the domain names to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Sep 21, 2010, one company which self-styled "'fictitious company' Co.Ltd" were applying to register"'yourdomainname" as Network Brand and following domain names:
'yourdomainname'.asia
'yourdomainname'.cn
'yourdomainname'.co.in
'yourdomainname'.com.cn
'yourdomainname'.com.hk
'yourdomainname'.com.tw
'yourdomainname'.hk
'yourdomainname'.in
'yourdomainname'.net.cn
'yourdomainname'.org.cn
'yourdomainname'.tw
After our futher checking, we found the brand names were similar to your company's. Please confirm that whether your company has authorized that company to register these domain names.Please reply us within 7 workdays. If you didn't reply us within the specified time,we will finish the registration for "/**/'fictitious company' /**/Co.Ltd", we are looking forward to your reply,so that we can handle this issue better. /*

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