Domain Dispute Scam
The following email attempts to sell you domain registrations of your name under different extensions. The scammer allegedly claims that someone approached them to register those domain names and now they want to give you a chance to register them instead of them.
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From: robin.lee [mailto: robin.lee@pc-idc.net]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:14 AM
To:
Subject: NETWORK BRAND AND DOMAINS OF “example” DISPUTING IN CHINA
Importance: High
(It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, Thanks)
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Robin lee—Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in china.we have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on December 03, 2010, one company which self-styled “CTMD Investment CO.,LTD” were applying to register “example” as Network Brand and following domain names:
“example.asia
example.cc
example.cn
example.com.cn
example.com.tw
example.info
example.mobi
example.tw”
After our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company’s, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for “CTMD Investment CO.,LTD”.
Best Regards,
Robin Lee
Senior Consultant
Phone: 0086-2168247379
Fax: 0086-2168247376
Postal Code:201315
Website:
Address: Room 1303,No.11,Lane 788,Xiupu Road,Nanhui District,ShangHai,China
2010-12-03
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