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Another SCAM! I keep on getting these emails...

by artflair
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Hi Warriors,

Be careful and don't fall for this!

So it is the third time I'm getting an email like this:

(Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks)

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on January 17,2014 that a company which self-styled "ACBC INTERNATIONAL LTD" were applying to register "MY WEBSITE" as their Brand Name and some domain names through our firm.

Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "ACBC INTERNATIONAL LTD" Looking forward to your prompt reply.

Best Regards,

Magee Xi

I answered to the first two email saying that it wasn't me or anyone acting in my name and after a couple of days they've sent me an email back trying to sell me "MY WEBSITE" .cn (China) and others.

Another Chinese Scam

Stay Safe!

Art
#bogus #emails #scam
  • Profile picture of the author David Braybrooke
    Looks like a Spam folder read to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author TatiW3B
    Never seen those emails. Guess it's a new one. I wouldn't trust it.
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    Sales pitches from China, Nigeria and other such places gets the delete hammer pretty quick with me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
      I'd be wary of anything that comes out of China
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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    Whenever it starts out dear Sir/ Madam I can stop right there and I know its a scam who writes like that?

    Sounds like something out of the English version of the little house on the prairie
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
    Banned
    It's not new. Been around for years. They try to sell you all those junk extensions to "protect" your .com domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author dmarc
    I wouldn't reply to emails like those. That's just going to encourage more of them.

    I remember getting emails like those YEARS ago, when I had a couple of dinky personal websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author artflair
      Originally Posted by dmarc View Post

      I wouldn't reply to emails like those. That's just going to encourage more of them.

      I remember getting emails like those YEARS ago, when I had a couple of dinky personal websites.
      Sometimes I answer to these spam emails just for fun.
      There are many African 'hotties' that are sending spam messages on facebook or Nigerian millionaries wanting to send you money.
      I like to plant a seed of hope in their minds, that it will actually work for them
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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
        Originally Posted by artflair View Post

        Sometimes I answer to these spam emails just for fun.
        There are many African 'hotties' that are sending spam messages on facebook or Nigerian millionaries wanting to send you money.
        I like to plant a seed of hope in their minds, that it will actually work for them
        Yes but sadly they don't care. They send those emails out en mass to snag the most gullible members of society. The insane, the gullible, the mentally ill etc. They do not care who they con so long as they do.

        All they're interested in are the few poor people that believe it. Because you reply to them they also now know you're a real person, so they'll probably make sure you get all the spam they can find and sell your email address to all manner of spammers.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          Dear Sir/Madam,
          I would never read farther - you don't know my name and I'm not reading your spam.

          Sometimes I answer to these spam emails just for fun.
          That's crazy - what you are doing is confirming to a spammer "Yes, this is a good email address" ....and you'll be targeted by even more spammers.
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          • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
            Originally Posted by artflair View Post

            I like to plant a seed of hope in their minds, that it will actually work for them
            Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

            That's crazy - what you are doing is confirming to a spammer "Yes, this is a good email address" ....and you'll be targeted by even more spammers.
            In addition to what Kay said, why would you want to encourage spammers? Do you want to see more spam? If everyone ignored spam we'd start seeing less of it. One of the main reason it persists is because a small percentage of people don't, enabling spammers to turn a profit.
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  • Profile picture of the author wbee
    Yeah I got this email too but I just deleted it and marked it junk/phishing scam. You really have to watch out for everything these days!
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    Sometimes you can't be too smart.

    Nice interception others could have rushed at it..

    I believe every domain owner should belong to Internet marketing forums like these to enable them keep abreast with this kind of developments.

    God help us all..
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    It's common enough that this is listed in the Wikipedia article on domain scams --

    Domain name scams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    I've been getting these mails for 6-7 years at least.

    Thing is, even if someone bought yourdomain.cn, it wouldn't really affect you anyway. Your users aren't going to accidentally type "cn" instead of "com", and nobody spends $xxxx/year sitting on all the possible extensions for a domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Hey,
    Someone try to make you fool.Look like a spammer before the last date of deadline close your site temporarily.
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    I've never seen those mails before.
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    I get these all the time they are so annoying.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brady Partridge
    I keep getting emails from someone calling himself Little Girlie, who admires "most of my profile". This raises the all important question as to which parts of my profile Little Girlie doesn't like and why.

    I think Little Girlie is hoping that some of the countless millions of people whose profile he admires are pedophiles and will correspond with him in the belief that he is indeed a little girlie.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
      Originally Posted by Brady Partridge View Post

      I think Little Girlie is hoping that some of the countless millions of people whose profile he admires are pedophiles and will correspond with him in the belief that he is indeed a little girlie.
      More likely to be ordinary spam than a secret pedophile hunter who uses bulk mail to find targets. You respond to "little girlie" who sends you some pictures of a random 18 year old college girl from Google Images. When you reply again, "she" tells you that "you can see the rest of my pics and message me here, my username is BeachGirl18XX", followed by an affiliate link for a dating site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
    It's a variation of a scam that has been going on for years.

    I used to get that crap too....here's the scoop...even if someone in China really was doing business under my name, does it really affect me one way or another? Only if they tried expanding their business into the US, and there is sufficient law on the books that says they would have to change their name, and not you.
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