Domain Registration Scam
Here is a Domain Registration Scam I received this morning designed to scare you into visiting their website and registering your domain name with them. It’s all a big scam designed to play on your fear, so don’t fall for it!
brooke@publicdomain.net.cn
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please transfer to the right person/department. Thank you.)
Dear CEO,
We , a registrar organization in China, have something to check with you. We received an application on Aug. 11th. One company called “Repet Trading Co. Ltd” is applying for “[yourdomain]” as internet brand and following Asian/.CN domain names to use.
[yourdomain].cn
[yourdomain].com.cn
[yourdomain].net.cn
[yourdomain].org.cn
[yourdomain].hk
[yourdomain].tw
[yourdomain].com.tw
[yourdomain].asia
After checking, we found the internet brand and keyword of these domain names are as same as your company’s, so we need to check this with your company.
If the aforesaid company is your subsidiary company or your business partner, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by ” Repet Trading Co. Ltd ” unconditionally.
Best Regards,
Brooke Ma, senior consultant
Tel: +86-21-5914-8338
Fax: +86-21-5911-4516
Website: xd-publicdomain. org. cn
2008-08-12
I received this identical email today. Thank you for posting your experience. Google and Yahoo they have on their website
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Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application. One company which called ‘banikis corp’ are applying to register CN domain names on August 25, 2008.
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, hope to get the affirmation from your company. 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 days. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by banikis corp.
Best Regards,
Jack Chen
Senior consultant
Phone: +86-21-52715980 (Direct)
Fax: +86-21-52715978
Address：9-102, No.460, Lintan Road, Jiading District, (don’t trust)Shanghai, China
Tel： +86-21-5914-8338
Fax： +86-21-5911-4516
Postal Code： 231803
Address： No.460,Lintan Road,Jiading District,Shanghai,China
Monday-Friday：: 8:30 A.M. - 5:30 P.M
Saturday： 9:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M
The best way to reach technical support is by emailing to the technical support department, you will usually receive a response within 2 hours during business hours.