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 arrived from the IP address 218.188.65.53, allocated to “Hutchison Global Communications” in Hong Kong. Many 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 business’s trademark. However, here as elsewhere, a good rule of thumb is Roger Ebert’s 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 does not 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!
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.
So, this type of email that I get about 6 times a week from several different Chinese Agencies claiming to be “looking after my best interest and the interest of my Internet Brand and domain name,” are actually trying to get me to buy other domain names associated with my company name that I don’t already own? Oh for God’s Sake!!
My original theory was that actual Chinese Companies were trying to HiJack the traffic of their direct US competitors that already enjoy good web position by buying up domain names that said US Competitor hadn’t already purchased; causing brand confusion. Guess I was wrong (or just paranoid; since my industry’s biggest headache is CHINA!)
We receive over 20 such emails per day!
Yeah. This stuff is out of control. Does anyone really make money with these approaches? I’m amazes that they are still used.
I receive domain kiting e-mail form China:
“Hi,
Here you are informed of an expiration of the domain registration. Only because there was no reply from you, we have to confirm the original applicant and register to them in the following days. Any additional information you need to know, let us know.
Best Regards,
Michael
2008-07-31
________________________________________
michael.huang
________________________________________
From: michael.huang [mailto:michael.huang@erimart-domains.cn]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:56 AM
To: tedb
Subject: Freightpath Domain name & Internet keyword
July 21, 2008
Freightpath
Domain name & Internet keyword
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are Beijing Erimart Network Service Co, Ltd which is the domain name register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “freightpath” as their domain name and Internet keyword on July 20, 2008.Since after our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark, so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon. Thanks for your co-operation and support.
Kind Regards,
Michael Huang
Tel: +86-10-62961631-8019
Fax: +86-10-82780671
Email:michael.huang@erimart-domains.cn
michael.huang@erimart-domains.com.cn
Beijing Erimart Network Service Co, Ltd
http://www.erimart.com
2008-07-21
________________________________________
michael.huang
Received a “Joy” letter … it seems that they want money to register our domain name in China? I saw the same shake-down in India a few years ago. Caused only minor difficulties for a short time.
We won’t spend a dime on this type of activity.
I have been receiving emails from joy@registryid.cn with this exact same message for a couple weeks now. My work email has been getting flooded with warnings from “Joy” letting me know that I am going to lose the rights to our company name if I don’t act now. I had a feeling this was bogus so I started doing some investigating — these have apparently been going around for a couple years now and are a complete scam. I tried looking up the company “Joy” said is trying to register our name and it is nowhere to be found via the internet — I guess a large China based investment firm hasn’t yet gotten itself a website :) Do not respond, if you receive one of these.
Another variation.
Dear Sir/Madam,
We, Beijing Himense Technology Co.,Ltd , a domain name register organization in China . We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “xxx My Domain xxx” as their domain name and Internet keyword on August 20, 2008. Since after our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark, so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first. Please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the their application unconditionally.
Kind Regards,
Dream
Auditing Department
Tel:+86-10-81128599
Fax:+86-10-81493938
Email:Dream@himense.cn
Beijing HimenseTechnology Co.,Ltd
http://www.himense.cn
I have gotten 3 or 4 of these over the last year or so. This is my default response:
Dear scammer,
During my auditing procedure I found out you are a scammer.
I am CC’ing jiandu@cnnic.cn and haze.chan@bj-hk.com as mentioned here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=543474
http://www.bj-hk.org.cn/en/content_list_en.asp?ArtID=444
…so they can take any necessary action.
Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited Scam
http://www.hknsc.hk
Yep, sounds like they’ve gone offshore …
We are Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited which is the domain name ///snip///
Kind Regards,
Cena Fang
Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited
Tel: +852-31757930 (ext8028)
Fax: +852-31757932
Email: cena.fang@hk-nsc.hk.cn
website: http://www.hknsc.hk
Thisi is what I just received, googled it and found this blog :-)
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Dear Sir/Madam,
We are Hong Kong Network Service company Limited which is the domain name register center in Asia. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “andrea’s domain” as their domain name and Internet keyword on
Oct 9, 2008. Because this involves your company name or trade mark so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon.
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Mmm…well, a few minutes wasted but problem solved :-)
Have a good day,
Andrea Diotti.
Today I received this e-mail at my companie’s address with the same message:
Van: peter [mailto:peter@registryid.cn]
Verzonden: vrijdag 10 oktober 2008 11:35
Aan: Info xxx
Onderwerp: Notice of Intellectual Property
Dear CEO:
We are a domain name registration service company in asia,which mainly deal with international company’s in Asia.We have something important need to confirm with you company.On the October 10th, 2008, we received an application formally.One company named “x Company name x” wanted to applying to register “x my domain x” as internet brand and “.CN/.ASIA” domain names.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged “x Company name x” has no trademark, Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word. we found that the keywords and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. one point need you to confirm:
whether this alleged “x Company name x” is your business partner or distributor in ASIA.
if so, we will complete their registration.These days we are dealing with it.If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept.In order to deal with this issue better,please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards
Peter Wu
Auditing Department Manager
Tel:+86-0513-8011 8536
Fax:+86-0513-8011 8539
WebSite:www.branddns.cn
Received today:
From: susan
Subject: Asia Domain Name Service Organization
Dear Manager:
We are a domain name registration service company in asia,which mainly deal with international company’s in Asia.We have something important need to confirm with you company.On the October 16th, 2008, we received an application formally.One company named “CarDon Group” wanted to applying to register “MY-Domain” as internet brand and “.CN/.ASIA” domain names.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged “CarDon Group” has no trademark, Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word. we found that the keywords and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. one point need you to confirm:
whether this alleged “CarDon Group” is your business partner or distributor in ASIA.
if so, we will complete their registration.These days we are dealing with it.If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept.In order to deal with this issue better,please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards
Susan
Auditing Department Manager
Tel:+86-0513-8011 8536
Fax:+86-0513-8011 8539
WebSite:www.shishundns.cn
only dumb people fall for these scams.
the world is a cunt, just remember that and you will do just fine
thanks for the blog. I just received the same email :0
I got it XD
From: ‘Kayla’ Sent: Tue Oct 14 3:54
To: ‘QA’ Priority: Normal
Subject: Asia Domain Name Service Organization Type: Embeded HTML/Text
Alert: The users email-address has been added to the addressbook
Dear CEO:
We are a domain name registration service company in asia,which mainly deal with international company’s in Asia.We have something important need to confirm with you company.
On the October 14th, 2008, we received an application formally.One company named “CarDon Group”wanted to applying to register “nottheblood”as internet brand and “.CN/.ASIA” domain names.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged “CarDon Group” has no trademark, Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word. we found that the keywords
and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. one point need you to confirm: whether this alleged “CarDon Group” is your business
partner or distributor in ASIA.
if so, we will complete their registration.These days we are dealing with it.If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept.In order to deal with this issue
better,please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards
Kayla
Auditing Department
Tel:+86-0513-8011 8536
Fax:+86-0513-8011 8539
WebSite:www.shishundns.cn
Same shit had me puzzled for a while! It wasn’t unitl i recieved an email 20 seconds after mailing them to say not intersted did i realise its rubbish…then shecking here of course.
I live in Japan and the time zones the same so he was either awake 24/7 or its a bot hahahaha got his reply…after the mail
reply:
Dear Steven Davies
Thanks for your prompt reply.
As far as we know, you are the owner of this name and have the http://www.Maboroshidesign.com website. But they want to apply for the following names:
Maboroshidesign.cn
Maboroshidesign.com.cn
Maboroshidesign.asia
And Internet Brand “Maboroshidesign”
We find your company have not protected these names, You know domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So this company has right to register it.
I think maybe you know some cases about the domain names grabbed by the third party,we also won’t want to see things happen like this.
Now your company is the owner of the name first, so your company enjoy the priority to register these names. If you think these domian names are important to your company and want to protect internet resources,we can send you a dispute application form and help you to register these domains within dispute period, this is the way to prevent domain name from grabbing. Of course, if you don’t think their application will affect you, you can give up, and then we will accept the third party company’s registration. Hope you can understand.
Wait for your decision and we will conduct our next step work. thank you.
Best regards.
Andy Wu
Andy Wu
Dear CEO:
We are a domain name registration service company in asia,which mainly deal with international company’s in Asia.We have something important need to confirm with you company.On the October 22nd, 2008, we received an application formally.One company named “Cardon Group” wanted to applying to register “maboroshidesign” as internet brand and “.CN/.ASIA” domain names.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged “Cardon Group” has no trademark, Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word. we found that the keywords and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. one point need you to confirm:
whether this alleged “Cardon Group” is your business partner or distributor in ASIA.
if so, we will complete their registration.These days we are dealing with it.If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept.In order to deal with this issue better,please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards
*Auditing Department Manager*
Room 908,Hua Heng International Building,
No.99 TaoWu road,NanTong City.
Tel:+86-0513-8011 8536
Fax:+86-0513-8011 8539
WebSite:www.globaldns.net.cn
Yesterday I received the same email Maborishi77 got above. From the same guy, “Andy Wu” of “globaldns.net.cn”.
I replied saying I wasn’t affiliated with a “cardon group”. This morning I received the same reply that Maborishi77 got. Only it was with my domain referenced.
I didn’t respond to that one and instead did a Google search on “Cardon Group china” and found this forum. I’m glad I did. Something about this spam email smelled fishy.
Also, I went to the globaldns.net.cn website and everything looks as if it’s in Chinese. I tried Google translator, it didn’t work.
They do look like a domain registration company from what I could make of it, so I don’t know about a virus… my scanner hasn’t pick up anything… just truly bad marketing strategy on their part, spammers.
I’m not internet savvy, but paranoid. I also got a friendly note from Andy. I was confused, because there is some other stuff on the net about GlobalDNS and reverse hijacking. Thank you all for the blog – I can relax now!
Dear Manager:
We are the Network Service Co., Ltd, which is a professional Internet Domain Names Registry and Internet Service Provider in China.
On,27th, October, Our company received the HENSHENG Investment company’s application that they want to apply for “taylormanufacturing” name as cn/asia internet domain names and Internet Keyword 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,
Jerry
Oversea marketing manager
Tel: +86(0)21 6296 1557
I’ve developed the good habit of Googling every questionable email – found this blog right away – and thank you for saving me time. This is what landed in my email box this AM:
Subject:
The Confirmation Of Intellectual Property
From:
Rita Zhou
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 8:27 pm
To:
Dear Manager:
This is China Domain Name Register Company On October 28th, 2008, One person who named Mr. FeiDong apply for registering “monte-foundation” as .CN/.ASIA domain name
and Internet Brand in China to promote their company and do the promotion on the Google, Baidu and some famous search engines.
After our initial examination, we found that the Internet trademark and domain names applied for are the same with your company’s name and trademark. One point need you to confirm: whether this alleged Mr. FeiDong is your business partner or distributor in ASIA?
If like that, we will finish the person’s application. If the person is not your partner or distributor, hope you can contact us in time so that we can deal with the matter better.
Looking forward to your reply.
Rita Zhou,
——————————————————
China Domain Name Registrar:
ShiShun Ltd.
Room 908,Hua Heng International Building,
No.99 TaoWu road,NanTong City China.
Tel:+(86)0513-8011 8536
Fax:+(86)0513-8011 8539
Email:rita@cnbrand.net.cn
Web:www.cnbrand.net.cn
I have receive the similar e-mail to what many of the other posters here have received. I immediately considered it as a scam and ignored the message. I receive an second one and did a Google search and found a number of posts that are similar. This confirms the fact that this is a scam as it appears that someone wants to buy up all of the .cn domains that match legitmate .com domains. It seems that someone in China must have some pretty deep pockets to do this.
Better luck next time.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I received this message today and I even not been bothered to open it as I thought it was a spam. But my colleague forwarded to me this email and asked me to handle it.
Gooled it on web, found this blog. Confirmed my initial thought. Spam. Delete again and told my colleague that.
This is what I got:
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Dear Manager,
We are SShun Network Information Service Co., Ltd, which is an Internet names register service company in China. We have something important need to confirm with you company.On October 28th, 2008, We received a formal application from a company who is called EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company are applying to register “Electrajet ” as their dot .cn and
dot .asia suffix domain name and Internet brand keyword in China.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company has no trademark of this name. we found that the names applied for registration are as same as your company’s web address or trademark, so I sent this email to inform you. Whether this alleged EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company is your agents or whether you have authorized this company to register in China ?
Today we are dealing with it, In order to deal with this issue better, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me by phone or email within five workdays. If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
James Zhou
SShun Network Information Service Co., Ltd
( Tel: +86 0513 8011 8536
4 Fax: +86 0513 8011 8539
, Email: james@sshun.net.cn
+ Address:Hua Heng International Building ,No. 99 TaoWu road , NanTong China.
Website: http://www.sshun.net.cn
Below is the email we received this morning. After a brief search, I found this forum. If they ever needed to get in touch with an American company legitimately, they have given themselves an up-hill battle.
Dear Manager,
We are SShun Network Information Service Co., Ltd, which is an domain name service company in China. We have something important need to confirm with you company. On October 29th, 2008, We received a formal application from a company who is called EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company are applying to register “momentum18″ as their .CN /.ASIA suffix internet domain name and Internet brand in China.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company has no trademark of this name. we found that the names applied for registration are as same as your company’s web address or trademark, so I sent this email to inform you. Whether this alleged EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company is your agents or whether you have authorized this company to register in China ?
Today we are dealing with it, In order to deal with this issue better, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me by phone or email within three workdays. If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Jimmy Zhou
SShun Network Information Service Co., Ltd
( Tel: +86 0513 8011 8536
4 Fax: +86 0513 8011 8539
, Email: jimmy@globaldns.org.cn
+ Address:Hua Heng International Building ,No. 99 TaoWu road , NanTong China.
Website: http://www.globaldns.net.cn
To whom it may concern,
I am writing from HKZC Intellectual Property Rights Protection Center. For your record, China Trademark Office has received an Application for Registration from MeiAo Investment Co,.Ltd claiming the “canamuranium” as its trademark, domain and internet brand names in China. According to Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, we blocked their application as “Reapply Occupied International Trademarks and Domains”. However, they made some adjustments and claimed Review of Refused Trademarks and Domains. According to their claim, they can waive the trade mark but reserve the rights to turn to overseas registrars if they cannot obtain these domains in China. In order to depress this implied reverse passing-off, we monitored Chinese trademarks and all domains they are applying for as preservation. Different from trademarks, domain registration is following first come first serve in China.
Please confirm in reply if you have business in Chinese market so that we can consider the possibility of releasing these trademarks to the applicant. Also confirm in return if you need to register these domains in China under your name with priority we offer or just leave these domains to the mentioned third party.
Dunne Tang
Intellectual Property Rights Attorney
Beijing HKZC Intellectual Property Rights Protection Center.
Beijing HKZC Network Science and Technology Co,.Ltd
NON-PROFIT Intellectual Property Rights Protection Center.and Anti Cyber Squatting Center in China
Tel: +86-10-82772510
+86-10-82771675
Fax: +86-10-82771640
Email: dunne@bj-hkzc.com.cn
Http://www.bj-hk.com
Confidentiality Statement:
The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error please be advised of your obligation to immediately notify sender of the
error in transmission, and to destroy all associated documentation.
reply
Thank you for your comments! Please keep them coming; this really helps those who are at risk for the scam.
Just as a note, I cc’d globaldns.net.cn
and abused them.
dunno its friday, i needed to vent and it felt could.
Also might block em locally.
From: Jimmy
To: *************
Date: Wednesday 08:26:31 pm
Spam Status: Spamassassin -5% probability of being spam.
Full report: No
Dear Manager,
We are SShun Network Information Service Co., Ltd, which is an domain name service company in China. We have something important need to confirm with you company.On October 28th, 2008, We received a formal application from a company who is called EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company are applying to register “glassandcolawyers” as their .CN /.ASIA suffix internet domain name and Internet brand in China.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company has no trademark of this name. we found that the names applied for registration are as same as your company’s web address or trademark, so I sent this email to inform you. Whether this alleged EIFEDA Investment Adviser Company is your agents or whether you have authorized this company to register in China ?
Today we are dealing with it, In order to deal with this issue better, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me by phone or email within three workdays. If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept. Thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Jimmy Zhou
SShun Network Information Service Co., Ltd
( Tel: +86 0513 8011 8536
4 Fax: +86 0513 8011 8539
, Email: jimmy@globaldns.org.cn
+ Address:Hua Heng International Building ,No. 99 TaoWu road , NanTong China.
Website: http://www.globaldns.net.cn
Beijing Fridexing Technology Co., Ltd in Europe and North America to send a large number of spam, fraud cost domain name registration business, not all businesses have been deceived,
Dear (omitted domain name)
We are Beijing Fridexing Technology Co., Ltd , which is the domain name
register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is called
Yunfeitongda International Trade Company are applying to register “ XXXX ” as their domain
name and Internet keyword on XXX 23th 2008. Because this involved your company name or
trade marks so we inform you in no time. If you considered these domain names and
internet keywords are important to you and there was necessary to protect them by
registering them first, contact us soon.
Kind Regards,
XXX
Tel: +86-10-61754370
Fax: +86-10-61754370
Email: XXX@fridexing.com
Beijing Fridexing Technology Co., Ltd
http://www.fridexing.com
Aside from the poor grammar, this would seem somewhat legitimate. There is an actual website that gives the appearance of being a respectable overseas registrar. It also seems that it would be fairly harmless to respond to the email stating the domain is taken and there is no interest in selling it.
A quick who-is search on fridexing.com shows a creation date of 8/31/2008. The email just got a little more than fishy. Googling the company name came up with nothing. Hmm, what are they trying to pull?
A search on their phone number is the only thing that provided any results. http://louminatti.blogspot.com/2008/01/china-scam.html. Hah, same email, only the names have been changed.
Apparantly, they will register your domain under .cn and try to sell it back to you if you respond with any concerns over your domain name. I guess this is what happens when you get tired of writing bots that farm WoW gold for you to sell on eBay.
Beijing Senibet Network Service Co., Ltd in Europe and North America to send a large number of spam, fraud cost domain name registration business, not all businesses have been deceived,
Dear (omitted domain name)
We are Beijing Senibet Network Service Co., Ltd , which is the domain name
register center in China. We received a formal application from a company …….
Beijing Senibet Network Service Co., Ltd
Tel : +86-10-81444299
Address: XiZhiMen Street HaiDian District Beijing China
Website: http://www.senibet.com
http://www.senibet.cn
http://www.senibet.com.cn
Coming in almost a year later… Yep, it’s still going on.
Just got one today. My email was signed “Joy” instead of “Jessie,” but otherwise was word-for-word identical to the example above. Rang all my “scam” alarms instantly, and I found this page by a Google search.
Received the same type of email from Rita Zhou at China Domain Name Register Company.
I too have developed the habit of googling every questionable email (although in fairness the email from “Rita” was so unprofessionally written that “questionable” doesn’t quite do it justice).
Anyhow, just wanted to say thanks for a useful blog. Resources like this are extremely useful. Keep up the good work.
Wow, thanks for saving me. They had a web presence too but all in Chinese, so I wasn’t sure. I wish there was a way to stop them!
Here is my variation:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We, Beijing Himense Technology Co.,Ltd , a domain name register organization in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “my domain name ” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Nov 16, 2008. Since after our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark, so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first. Please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the their application unconditionally.
Kind Regards,
Toyance
Auditing Department
Tel:+86-10-81128599
Fax:+86-10-81493938
Email:toyance@himenson.cn
Beijing Himense Technology Co.,Ltd
http://www.himense.cn
The company Himenese with an impressive website and the web address http://www.himension.cn sent me the same scam emails. Thank you all for making the public aware of this.
Received today in Australia.
Thanks guys for this blog, I was just about to reply to them and thank them for their “service”. 30 seconds too close.
“Dear CEO,
We are Beijing Himense Technology Co.,Ltd, a domain name register organization in china. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register” ***website*** ” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Feb 8,2009. Because this involves your company name or trade mark so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first. Please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the their application unconditionally.
Kind Regards,
conrad
Auditing Department
Tel:+86-10-81128599
Fax:+86-10-81493938
Email:conrad@himenson.cn
Beijing Himense Technology Co.,Ltd
http://www.himense.cn“
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