Anyone Shed A Little Insight On This.........

[GoGetta]

Hi Warriors,

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Ok, I need a little info and advice from you guys!

One of my offline clients contacted me today via email asking if an email they had recieved was a scam!

Now I don't want to post the email here but the email was basically an IMPORTANT NOTICE from what looked like a domain registration company.

The Subject Line:

Domain Notification: (My Clients Name) This is your Final Notice of Domain Notification

Now the email basically read out that the domain name in question needs registering to avoid any problems with customers finding you on the web. It was obviously a scare tactic and they were charging:

$75 for 1 year Registration!

The email was sent from a donotreply@ email address. I have URL'd the email domain and it has brought up one of those information.com type of pages.

Now this looks like a company searching the web and scaring people into buying domains at a high price. Has anyone else recieved one of these or has any offliners recieved one of these for clients in the past?

I have never had an email and its the first I have heard about it!

Any info?

GoGetta

[KEY]

you are correct that it is an elaborate scam.

just a program that surfs the net...hits a site and then run a domain search for other variants of the domain (net, org, etc) and if available? pulls an email from the site and sends the type of mail you are writing about. "your business is in danger...blah...blah"

even if you feel that your client may need the other 'sister' domains? just go buy them at whatever registrar you use.

KEY

[GoGetta]

Just what I thought KEY!

Thanks for that,

GoGetta

[Vince Runza Online]

I get direct mail pieces offering the same kind of "service". This must be profitable for these guys to do. Postage and mailing fees far outstrip the cost of spam...

[The Copy Nazi]

Originally Posted by GoGetta

Hi Warriors,

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Ok, I need a little info and advice from you guys!

One of my offline clients contacted me today via email asking if an email they had recieved was a scam!

Now I don't want to post the email here but the email was basically an IMPORTANT NOTICE from what looked like a domain registration company.

The Subject Line:

Domain Notification: (My Clients Name) This is your Final Notice of Domain Notification

Now the email basically read out that the domain name in question needs registering to avoid any problems with customers finding you on the web. It was obviously a scare tactic and they were charging:

$75 for 1 year Registration!

The email was sent from a donotreply@ email address. I have URL'd the email domain and it has brought up one of those information.com type of pages.

Now this looks like a company searching the web and scaring people into buying domains at a high price. Has anyone else recieved one of these or has any offliners recieved one of these for clients in the past?

I have never had an email and its the first I have heard about it!

Any info?

GoGetta

The other scam to be aware of is the Domain Name Appraisal Scam They send an email like this one -

From: Harrison [management@phreaker.net] Hello,
We’ve have visited several online auctions. We are very interested in your domain name.
Just email me your price and we will consider it.
Of course, domain reselling is not a main direction of our business (we develop software). But domain aftermarket is hot now, so we are always interested in domain names.
Looking forward to do business with you. Regards,
Anthony Harrison
COO
PDS Consulting

More on it here at my blog Welcome to Wallyworld