Is this Scam, SPAM, or Clever Marketing?

I'd say they probably want to just sell you the domains and then at a high price cos they'll say the other firm will pay x amounts. Have you checked if the other company exists? You could even call them and ask them if they want the domains.

You could always just go and buy the domains yourself (or the firm could) as they don't appear to have got them for their "client" yet, you could then email or phone them and say "thanks for the heads up, I just bought the domains at namecheap (or whatever) for $5, thanks for letting me know"

The english doesn't read right either. My 7 year old nephew is here and he spotted errors himself!

This is a scam.

If you want a .hk domain you need to go through the HKDNR organization in town here.

What would you want a .hk domain for anyway? Most surfers here speak/write Chinese and only use for .hk is for local business.

I have a .hk domain that I am now retiring after learning so much about IM the last few weeks. Have learnt why very few folk visit my site.

Just ignore these emails and delete them.

If you search this forum (or even Google), you'll see plenty of folks have received this same letter or some version of it. It's not legit.

Delete and move on.

Cheers,
Becky

I would simply ignore it and delete it... I don't believe that anything that isn't written in proper English is real... Legitimate companies hire people that know several languages fluently for correspondence and this email certainly isn't fluent proper English.

It's a scam that has been going around a lot to try to get you to register a bunch of worthless domains. Place in trashcan or spam folder.

It's a total scam, and I can prove it. Don't do anything. You'll see that the domain they say someone wants to register never gets registered. It's a scam because they are lying to you that they received a registration application. It's all a lie. Lie = scam.

Even if it wasn't, does it matter? I've had people register the .net and .org versions of my .com domains before. They disappear in a year if you refuse to buy them from them at inflated prices. Of course, someone could make a go at it if they worked hard, but most won't, and the .com is usually the one that does the bet.

I would call it scam like marketing. I got loads of them from China. I actually registered a couple of domains (through another orgainsation) before I realoised what was going on.

The questions I asked myself were:

Are these TLDs really available? Yes.
****, I better register them? Maybe
Do I really need those TLDs? No.

Now I ignore them.

Pretty sure I got one something like that once and I thought with the extensions they were offering why would I bother...

There is another way to deal with these though. Play along and give them some made up details to submit. Bogus paypal or something. They will come back with the fact that it isn't working and you apologise and give say you will fix it. Lead them on sao they think they are getting the deal but in reality you are wasting their time and possibly preventing someone else getting scammed because they are concentrating on getting your business...while all the while you are sitting back laughing at them.

Some time ago I saw some video of people that were scamming the scammers. These were bigtime scams where they were supposed to be paying the scammers thousands of dollars. So they arranged meetings, mostly in front of known public webcam street view locations and videoed them standing there waiting...and waiting etc...
Later when contacted they would apologise saying an emergency came up and they couldn't make it. They also taped phone calls and showed emails recieved. These scammers travelled overseas and spent a few weeks trying to get $x thousands of dollars and left empty handed and frustrated...serves them right.

Quite funny stuff. They never put themself in danger by actually meeting them or giving them any details apart from maybe a phone number and email address (which they already had anyway).

Scam the scammers, pretty sure if you do a search there will be stuff on there. Good for a laugh.

There probably is $10 million dollars in an account for you, if you can only help the guy secure it from his wealthy deceased uncle too.

It is totally scam. They want to get your original domain