Domain Name Scam...

[StarLab]

Greetings...

Over the last couple days, 2 of my clients received the following emails from a company in Asia claiming a someone is trying to register other extension variations of their domain name.

Below is a copy of those emails. (I have snipped my clients info for privacy reasons)

----- Original Message -----
From: Andy.Wang
To: [Snip!]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Snip! (Domain name)]-Intellectual property rights (TO CEO)


Dear CEO,

We are the domain name registration organization in Asia, which mainly deal with international company's in Asia. We have something important need to confirm with your company.

On the May 5, 2008, we received an application formally. One company named "Getriches International Holdings Ltd" wanted to register following Domain names:
[domain snipped].asia
[domain snipped].cn
[domain snipped].com.cn
[domain snipped].com.hk
[domain snipped].com.tw
[domain snipped].hk
[domain snipped].net.cn
[domain snipped].tw
Internet trademark:
[domain snipped]
through our body.

After our initial examination, we found that the Internet trademark and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company's name and trademark. We don't know whether you have any relation with them. These days we are dealing with it. Now we have not finished the registration of Getriches International Holdings Ltd yet, If we do not get your company's reply in the next 3 workdays, we will pass the application of Getriches International Holdings Ltd directly, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
Andy Wang

Then a second email:

----- Original Message -----
From: joanna.kuang
To: [Snip!]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:10 AM
Subject: Domain Name & Internet keyword Registration


Dear [Snip!]. ,

This is Beijing Erimat Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, domain name registrant in China. A formal application dated on May 5th. from one company called Guangyuan Investment (China) Co., Ltd requested "[Snip!]" as their Chinese top-level domain name (.cn/.hk etc).and internet keyword Due to the possibility of involving your company name or trade mark, we bring this into your attention immediately in view of your priority and IPR according to the registration procedure. Please contact us for protective prior registration of those domains or learning more about it.

Kind Regards
Joanna.Kuang

An investigation revealed that this is a scam. They are trying to sell those additional domains to you with a hefty markup.

Beware!

[Skinny]

Yea I would beware . . .sounds very fishy and there are ton's of grammar errors that would lead one to believe this isn't a professional email sent out by someone legit.

I love this line:

These days we are dealing with it.

What!?

Skinny

[StarLab]

Not to mention I visited their site. The domain lookup doesn't even work. lol

[mksouthmayd]

Anytime I see something like that, I beware. I have not as yet received any messages like that for my site.

[firezz]

ya.. sounds fishy to me too