.cn/.asia Domain Name Scam
Written by Jevgeni Kabanov on September 29, 2009 – 11:28 amWe just received an email offering us to register a domain name ahead of competition. First I took it to be the real deal, and replied, but luckily before actually doing anything I did a search in the internet. Ladies and Gentlemen, I almost was a scam victim :)
However now that I know this is a scam, I just might to try and turn the tables on the scammer. If I succeed to do anything fun, I’ll be sure to let you know :D
The letter is verbatim below to serve as a warning to those even less careful than me:
(If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Sep 28, 2009, One Japan company called Seed soft investment Corp” are applying to register(zeroturnaround) as internet brand name and domain names as below (zeroturnaround.net.cn zeroturnaround.org.cn zeroturnaround.mobi zeroturnaround.asia zeroturnaround.in zeroturnaround.hk zeroturnaround.cc zeroturnaround.tw in etc.).
After our initial checking, we found the internet brand name and these domain names being applied are as same as your company’s, so we need to get the confirmation from your company. If the aforesaid company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 10 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by Seed soft investment Corp” unconditionally.
We would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Kevin Wu
Senior Director
TEL: +86 21 69929440
Fax: +86 21 69929447
Website:www.govqipeng.org.cn
Address:Room 902,8th,nong 1518,Jinyuan 1st Road,Jiading District, Shanghai city.
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September 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am
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September 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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September 30th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Guys – thanks – we just got the same message verbatim.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
We got the same email, nearly verbatim. Do let us know how it turns out. We have been “talking” to Kevin as well; let’s see where that one goes.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:53 pm
@WebSketch
I tried to get him to send us a letter, but he never got back.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I got the same letter from same people, after discovering they are scam I decided to have some fun with them, I told them that I would like to purchase all domains for 20 years and they now waiting for 7900$ dollars from me which will never arrive…I just want to brew some excitement among them.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
@Jacob Cool! Keep us posted on how it goes….
January 27th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
We received the same but now “Kevin” is “Jake”