Domain name scam?

By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics and access other forums reserved for members. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today by clicking here.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:25 am

Hello there.

I just received the following suspicious email. I wasn't able to find any information regarding this, though I presume it to be a scam. If I'm correct, could someone point me in the direction of other posts on the forum handling this, or very briefly explain the usual progression? I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I start with a bait.

Also, anyone interested is welcome to it as well.

Thanks!

(My first and last name have been replaced by "firstname" and "lastname"):

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivery-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:24:38 -0500
Received: from mail.idcsea.cn (Mail.idcsea.cn [121.12.119.45])
by mx.firstname-lastname.com (node=mxus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis)
id 0MKoXI-1LXAON0tJw-000U9r for [email protected]; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:24:37 -0500
Received: from A-9871B1B5BBED4 (unknown [116.226.64.192])
by mail.idcsea.cn (Postfix - by idcsea.cn) with ESMTP id EA2E683859;
Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:24:27 +0800 (CST)
Reply-To: [email protected]
From: "jim.lee"<[email protected]>
To: "firstname"<[email protected]>
Subject: VERY URGENT--About disputing" lastname " domain in Asia.
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:24:31 +0800
Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in Asia. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Feb 10, 2009, One company which self-styled "Great network.,ltd" are applying to register " lastname " as internet brand and CN domain names as below :
www.lastname.com.hk
www.lastname.com.tw
www.lastname.hk
www.lastname.org.cn
www.lastname.tw

After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company's name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, we need you to confirm: whether Great network.,ltd is your business partner or distributor in Asia?. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us as soon as possible.
In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 7 workdays. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by that company.

Best Regards,

Jim Lee
Senior consultant
( Tel: +86-21-5271-5980 ( Fax: +86-21-5271-5978
Website:http://www.xud-china.net
Address： 11/F, Building A, Oasis Plaza, 137 Bailan Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, China

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:08 pm

Yup, total scam.

See information here: http://trusted.md/feed/items/system/2008/01/29/asia_domain_name_registration_scam

There are a couple of previous threads here in misc about it--I don't have time to search right now.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:38 pm

Dorothy wrote:

There are a couple of previous threads here in misc about it--I don't have time to search right now.

Yea, I figured there would be, but I was unable to track them down. Strangely, they don't even show up with quotes from the email.

Dorothy wrote:

See information here: http://trusted.md/feed/items/system/2008/01/29/asia_domain_name_registration_scam

Thanks! That was exactly what I was looking for. It seems that the process is more just spamming for an over-priced registrar than an actual scam. If that's so, I'd rather just leave it alone. Spammers are annoying, but not quite enough to warrant baiting or abuse.

Thanks a lot for the information!

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

Hi Jmeasn,

This was a similar one we had recently, see here:

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=155166