Legit or Spam?
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- mg33
Need your help with an email I received to my band's web site. This is the email:
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Subject: Brand name of theatlanticdivide
To CEO: Brand name of theatlanticdivide
Dear CEO,
We are the domain name register organization in Asia, which mainly deal with international company's network resource in Asia. Now we have something important need to confirm with your company.
Today we received an formal application from YU-Online (Hongkong) Investment company.Now they are applying to register "theatlanticdivide" as internet brand keyword and CN domain names through us.After our examination, we found that the keywords and domain names being applied are the same as your company's name and trade name.We have several days to deal with this matter. If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other purpose to get these domain names. Now we have notfinish the registration for YU-online company yet.In order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.Yours sincerely,
http://www.cbss.cn/
(came with all contact info - international phone, skype phone, email, fax, mobile)
--------------------------------...Anyone know what to make of this? Gotten anything like this before?
- TheBlueOne0
Fuck off.
- ukit0
The Chinese are taking over
- inhaler970
bogus. i say..
- Iggyboo0
You know what you need to speak with an attorney and someone who handles .com selling immediately. I suspect if you handle this correctly and it turns out to be legit the .com is worth 50k maybe more.
- But it just as well could be fraud. Just something to note. Chinese legit or fraudalent emails will be poorly written in english.Iggyboo
- detritus0
I'd think 'So?' would be my only appropriate answer, were I in your shoes.
- Jaline0
Looks fake. But contact them?
- ian0
Maybe it actually came from Camelot, I hear that over there they eat spam-a-lot.
- flashbender0
bogus.
DCMA provides protection against that anyway, but I don't know if that protection extends worldwide or not.
- Iggyboo0
If he owns the .com they cannot take it.. they have to buy it. He just has to not sign anything. But he should contact an attorney who knows more about this sort of thing.
- mg330
I need to make sure I check my expiration for sure. I think it's in August. I always forget.
- TheBlueOne0
Why does that cbss.cn site have a link to download a "domain dispute application"? Sounds like some shady business to me...
- I just bought a bunch of adwords and paid search results for 'The BlueOne" that point to meatspin.comflashbender
- BTW don't click meatspin.com (like anyone should need to be told that)flashbender
- AAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!!jawks
- Awesome.TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
My friend's email server just got hacked the other day and some guy in China tried to steal all his domains. Took him two days to work it all out with Network Solutions. Chinese hackers are fucksticks.
- oozie0
Welcome to vist our homepage.
- mg330
WTF - look how fast my post appeared in a Google search...
- chawkeat0
Today i have received the same email.
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To CEO: Brand name of addgadget
Dear CEO,
We are Shanghai CBSS Information Technology Co., Ltd, a domain name register organization in Shanghai, China. Now we have something urgent need to confirm with your company.
Today we received an formal application from YU-online (Hongkong) Investment company.Now they are applying to register "addgadget" as internet brand keyword and CN domain names through us，which regarding your company's name or trademark. In order to prevent the 3rd party from utilizing the relative domain names on purpose , we hope to get your confirmation about the domain name’s registration.
Waiting for your prompt reply or calling directly.
- jevad0
This has nothing to do with me - before anyone asks...
- ribit0
Its a scam, or at least 'very aggressive marketing':
http://www.legitiname.com/articl…
http://successfulsoftware.net/20…