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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:10 pm

Hello,

Sorry for the grammar of this message I'm French and even if I could make illusion on speech when I wrote...

Ok The main point :

I work as computer scientist in a small society in the north of France and three day ago by boss receive this mail and ask me to look about it :

De : Kevin Ban [mailto:[email protected]]
Envoyé : lundi 22 décembre 2008 08:45
À : Laurent JEANNEAU
Objet : TOLARTOIS Enquiry

Dear TOLARTOIS ,

We are a domain name register center in Asia. We have something important need to confirm with you. On the Dec 21,2008, We received an application formally,one company which self-styled " TOLARTOIS Development Co.,Ltd. " wanted to register " tolartois " as their asia-pacific domain names and Internet brand. After our initial examination, we found that this application issue involved your company name and 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,

Senior Consulting Director
________________________________________
Internet Brand Safety & Justice Dept.
Asia Internet Network Information Center
Asia Pacific NameBrand Solutions Ltd (Branch Office)
Tel: +86-10101-75620-6698 ext.602 (Mon–Fri,9am to 6:30pm,GMT+8 )
Mail:[email protected]

After small research I realize it was a Scam and I did'nt responde to this. During my search I found this site and I like your work. I would like to do such thing but I'm not sure I could so I post the mail here. If somebody whant to work on it, I'd like helping him or at least follow the case.

Sorry again for my grammar and my vocabulary. I'm sure it's awfull.

Sincerely

Elric White (or Hellric)

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Hi Hellric, welcome to the eater, I have moved this here from the surplus section.

This type of email is doing the rounds amongst people who buy and sell domains, and also people who own domains registered to their companies.

They tend to originate from China, the premise is that they contact companies, saying other people are wanting to buy domain names that include the companies trading name/trademark, which will be the .asia domain name version of the companies name, and would you like to buy those domains before we sell them to the other people.

Not really worth baiting them, but by posting the email here, it will be indexed by Google to warn other who do a search and find it here and elsewhere on the internet.

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:30 pm

Ok I'm happy to help.

I'm french as I said and actually I've got not a lot of work so if you want help for scam in french I'd please to help.... put a lot of "help" in this three sentence I'v got a lack of vocabulary...

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Hi Hellric,

Feel free to stick around and learn the finer points of baiting scammers. We do have some members from France, and also French Canadian's as well, so you wont be alone.

One of our French members also runs a French language baiting site and forum which might also be of interest to you, that can be found here:

http://jeromegrancher.blogspot.com

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:58 pm

Hellric, welcome to Eater! Very Happy

ScamPatroller has covered things nicely, so I just want to say that your English is just fine - a whole lot better than the English the scammers use. Wink

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:31 pm

Welcome Hellric,
language is no problem here, when I got here, to have fun, be useful and learn how to type English, I must have been terrible and as I'm still looking for the right words it hasn't improved much, but I had my fun Laughing

Never any complaints about my spelling though, just gentle hints that it should be different, just helpful people here, no worries.
As said^ above^ I never knew Jerome had his own version and I'm now over there to have a look at it.
Hope to see you around later.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:27 am

Hello Hellric, welcome onboard!

If you feel better in French we'd be glad to welcome you into our French-speaking community:
http://forum.croque-escrocs.fr

See you!