Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Domain name fraud: Hoax email to solicit business from .com owners

If you recieve an email information you that someone had made application for registration of domain name similar to your .com domain name.

It is a hoax email to solicit more business for the owner of .com domain name. They want you to register under different domains such as .asia .in .org net. and so on.

Sample of hoax email

From: Dr. ABC
Date: 9/23/2008 9:29:19 AM
To:
Subject: XXX Enquiry

Dear XXX,

We are one of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution (DNDR) Committee members authorized by ANIC(Asia Internet Network Information Center).

Now we have something urgent on intellectual property need to confirm with your company.

On the Sep 22, 2008, we received an application from one person from China Intellectual Property Protection Agency (Taiwan) Corporation named “Roger L. Forbes” who wants to register the “XXX” as Internet Brand,TradeMark Domain and Asia Pacific domains. Considering these domains and internet brand would involve the intellectual property of your company’s name,patents,trademarks,and copyright, and in order to avoid confusion between them, so we inform you urgently. If you considered these domains and internet brand are important to you and there was necessary to protect them by registering them first, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.

Thank you for you cooperation.

I am waiting for your urgent reply,
Kind Regards,
Dr. ABC
Chief Law Officer,Senior Consulting Director

Internet Brand Justice & Safety Dept.
ABC xxx xxx Ltd (Branch Office)
Help Dispute Tel: ..........(Mon–Fri,9am to 6:30pm,GMT+8)

1 comment:

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