China seems to have staked its claim to this particular genre of junk mail (specimen abridged):
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:34:06 +0800 From: "Jessie" <Jessie@worldregistry.com.cn> To: "thor" <thor@anta.net> Subject: (SPAM) The Notice of the Intellectual Property On the Internet Hello! We are Shanghai ZhengXiao Network Technology Co.,Ltd., which is a professional domain name registration and service company in China. On 11st.Dec.,our company received Morllex Investment company's application that they want to register the "antalamp" as their Internet Keyword and CN domain name and other related domain names, but after checking we found, this name is conflict with your company's trademark , so we send you email and want to confirm with you . Please ask your responsible person or IT manager to contact me . I’m looking forward to hearing from you . Yours sincerely Jessie 2007-12-11 Jessie Jessie IT Manager Shanghai ZhengXiao Network Technology Co.,Ltd Tel:+86(0)21-6451 3605 Fax:+86(0)21-6451 3603 E-mail:Jessie@worldregistry.com.cn Website:www.worldregistry.cn
Have you noticed how messages opening with “I am” or “We are” almost invariably are junk? This specimen was received from the IP address 218.188.65.53, allocated to “Hutchison Global Communications” in Hong Kong. Lots of similar stunts have been reported elsewhere, for example on Kevin Murphy’s blog, texturbation.
“Jessie” would probably be more than happy to sell me a cn domain name in order to protect my company’s trademark. However, here as elsewhere, a good rule of thumb is the Boulder pledge:
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.
No, this story doesn’t count as forwarding. 
If you have received similar junk mail, or otherwise would like to share some information on the problem, please post a comment!
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I received one of these emails today, an exact replica of the one above. They are still doing the rounds. Beware !!!
Received an email from ‘eva@worldregistry.com.cn’ stating that
PuKai Consultants Limited wanted to register my ‘company’s domain name and the Internet Brand’.
Received an excact duplicate today.
I know, that this swindlers!
To me it is necessary to find
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Dear Manager:
We are the Shanghai ShiShun Information Technology Co.,Ltd, which is a professional Internet Domain Names Registry and Internet Service Provider in China.
On,23rd, Apr, our company receive the HOUSHIN Investment company’s application that they want to apply for “autosimsport” name as cn/asia domain names and Internet Brand names. But after our confirmation, we found this name will conflict with your company’s name, so we send you email and want to confirm with you, whether your company has relation with the case ? Now this matter we just in the middle of handling, so we need to get your company’s opinion within the following 5 days.
If you have any question, please let your company’s charger contact us directly & quickly. Thank you!
Best regards,
Joy Li
Oversea marketing manager
Shanghai ShiShun Information Technology Co.,Ltd
Tel:+86(0)21 6451 3605
Fax:+86(0)21 6451 3603
Email:joy@registryid.cn
WebSite:www.registryid.cn
Joy Li & Houshin are still busy!! We rec’d the same message as Alex, relating to our own domain name.
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