Is this Real or a scam?

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This is an email I received, Is this a scam or real, just wondering if anyone else has ever seen this.



Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.
On October 31st 2011, We received Tianhua Ltd's application that they are registering the name " carpetdoctorinc " as their Internet Keyword and " carpetdoctorinc .cn "、" carpetdoctorinc .com.cn " 、" carpetdoctorinc .asia "domain names etc.., they are China and ASIA domain names. But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so we are sending you this email to check. According to the principle in China, your company is the owner of the trademark, In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!

Best Regards,

John
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 136615 29704
Fax: +86 216191 8697

#real #scam
  • Profile picture of the author awddude
    I've been living in China for 4 years now.

    At first glance, the email seems legitimate. They are not trying to take anything from you... the moment they are I would start getting suspicious however.

    At the moment it seems their firm seems to be doing a good thing - trying to prevent future copyright problems for their client.

    No I've never received an email like this before.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Sounds like just an inventive way to get you to register the other domains with them. If you want them I'd just register them where you regularly register them but if you don't who cares if you have the .com you won't be doing carpets in China anytime soon I guess
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    It looks like a scam to me. I think if it were legit, the company would use better translators and it would be in better English.

    I would not respond. However, the best thing to do is contact an attorney who handles such matters as international copywrites and have them look at it.
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  • Profile picture of the author awddude
    I agree with Mike - seems like a good way to get you to register with them.

    @ TopKat22 - Because the English is not 100% does not mean it's a scam. I've done deals with many international certified factories with broken English that were legitimate. The biggest brands in China, multi-billion dollar industries have English problems. Down the street from me one of the banks has a misspelled sign for example.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      I have received emails like this before. It's just a way to try to get you to buy domains or switch registrars, at a much higher price. Just ignore it.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    If you didn't ask for it, If you don't know them, it's spam.

    Lol, they've scraped your email from a whois site, most likely.
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