Oh deary me. Seems I’m the latest one to get hit with the china domain name scam. Haven’t heard of it? Oh, this is a cool one. You don’t have to take my word for it, it’s been going on all over the place.
You see, this nice domain name registrar company in China has noticed that one of their customers is trying to register YOUR domain! And, to make things even worse, they are trying to register your Intellectual Property Rights as well! Well, this gosh by golly good ol Chinese Domain Name Registrar has decided to do the right thing and contact you so you can avoid this whole mess! They will allow you to head off this nefarious domainer at the pass and register the domains with them on your behalf.
What a cool company huh? They’ll be happy to send you a list of all the domain names this international terrorist mastermind has given them to register, along with their special “you almost got robbed but we are here to save you” rates so they can register it for you!
Wow, bestweb-service.net is great ain’t they.
It works like this. They start going through the Internets, and find your domain. How? How’d you find this site? They just did, trust me on this one. Then they check of possible combination’s of your domain name, but ending in different tld’s, that are available, then hit you with a scary letter that sounds like this
Dear CEO&Principal,
We are a professional Internet consultant organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.
On Nov 26, 2008, we received an application formally, one company named “SUSNES Holdings Ltd.” wanted to applied for the Internet brand “badassdomain.com” and some domain names through our body.
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword and internet brand is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned SUSNES Holdings Ltd to register these domain names through us or not? Or is SUSNES Holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? Currently, we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please let the principal make a confirmation with me by telephone or email ASAP.
Best Regards,
Lydia
Auditing Department (HK)
Tel: 00852-95660496
00852-95660489
Fax: 00852-82261011
Mail: lydia@bestweb-service.org
Web: http://www.bestweb-service.net
Wow, how nice, so I took the bait to see what would happen, and I sent them this.
Lydia,
I have owned “badassdomain.com”, net and org since 2005-10-16, and have registered the brand as a Trade name. So What exactly are you blathering about?
I have no idea who is SUSNES Holdings Ltd, they are not my business partners in any way, shape or form. Wait, are those the guys I see hanging out at the local gin joint with a couple of hookers, a crack pipe, and a donkey with questionable underwear? I mean, I don’t frequent these kind of establishments, but those fuckers owe me money.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any further questions.
Thank you.
Mr. Rumblepup
CEO&Principle&SuperHeavyweightChampionOfTheWorld
“badassdomain.com”
To which Lydia quickly and kindly responds:
Dear Mr. Rumblepup,
Have a nice Thanksgiving Day! Thank you for your reply. If you have no relationship with them. According to our working experience, there are 2 possibilities:1.SUSNES company is a domain name investment company, they want to register these names before you and sell back to you to gain profits;2.It may be a commercial method, SUSNES company is consigned by your competitor to register, they are trying to replicate your idea and let your customers feel confusion.
We knew your company has registered the domain name “badassdomain.com” and own the intellectual property, this is why we informed you. But now SUSNES company do not want to register your trademark or domain name “badassdomain.com”, they wanted to apply for other domain names and internet brand you have not registered yet.
Following are all the domain names and internet brand which are submitted by SUSNES company:
1. Domain name
badassdomain.cn
badassdomain.com.cn
badassdomain.net.cn
badassdomain.org.cn
badassdomain.asia
badassdomain.hk
badassdomain.tw
badassdomain.biz
2. Internet brand
badassdomainBecause domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So SUSNES company has right to register it. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to stop their application. I think you must know some cases about the domain names grabbed by the third party,we also won’t want to see similar things happen.
As the company whose trademarks relate to the applied domain names, you will get the priority to register these domain names and internet brand. If you think these domian names are important to your company,we can send you a dispute application form and help you to register these domains within dispute period, this is a way to prevent domain name from grabbing. Of course, each company has their own idea. If you don’t think their registration will confuse your clients and harm your profits, you can give up. In order to proceed next step work better, please give me your decision as soon as possible.
Best regards,
..
Now, you have to understand that at this point, it’s 4AM in the morning and I’m feeling a wee bit wicked. I mean, this is just entertainment at this point, so I respond on more time.
Lydia,
I’m sorry, but I can’t understand a fuckin’ thing you have written. Not only does this read like the wacky information you find on those Chinese Herbal Tea Diet Pills, like “the state of obesity is the fact of being too fat” (Ha, that one always gets me) but it’s also so incredibly eyeball socket grating as well.
I mean, what does ‘Thank you for your reply. If you have no relationship with them.‘ supposed to mean? Are you thanking me for my reply as long as I don’t have a relationship with them, because if I do, then to hell with me?
‘According to our working experience’. Wow, your working experience actually SPEAKS to you? Mine hasn’t spoken to me since I went to work for Siegfried & Roy all those years ago, but that’s another story.
‘they are trying to replicate your idea and let your customers feel confusion.‘ Oh yeah? Well what if my customers are not allowed to feel confusion huh? I mean, I know the Chinese State pretty much controls everything over there, but over here in the US, the only people who control anything are the ones with the big tanks.
‘they wanted to apply for other domain names and internet brand you have not registered yet’ OHHH, is that all? Go ahead and let them have those domains. I’m good with that, cause none of my customers are in China, and you know, I own the .com and everybody knows that there are those Chinese Malware Sites and all.
‘As the company whose trademarks relate to the applied domain names, you will get the priority to register these domain names and internet brand.’ Now your just trying to make my head spin.
‘If you don’t think their registration will confuse your clients and harm your profits, you can give up.‘ NEVER, NEVER will I give up. Don’t you understand, that this is my calling in life?
‘In order to proceed next step work better, please give me your decision as soon as possible.’ I mean really, What the Holy Hopin Horseshit is that? Does that mean you want my next step better work, or are you warning me about a hole in the floor, and to be carefull where I work? Or is that step? What, do you think people in America can’t walk or something?
Ok, since you said please…here’s my decision.
Go away and take a course in ‘Using your brain to think – The Curly Method‘ and see if we can get some better communication going.
Yours Truly
CEO&Principle&SuperDeluxeHamburger
badassdomian.com
I haven’t exactly gotten a call back yet.
Thanks for writing this, it gave me a good laugh!! I got the same email today. I loved your answers!
Oh hey, I got some strange E-mail today and did a little search on Google and one thing lead to another and HERE AM I.
😀 Here’s what I got……..
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Dear goldfries:
We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
We have received an application formally,one company named “Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names(www.goldfries.cn http://www.goldfries.com.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(goldfries) on the internet November 28, 2008. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Kind Regards,
Hairry Zhu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website: http://www.chooke.com.cn
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The one that I thought to be damn funny was……….Hairry Zhu. haha. Hi Hair-ry. Zhu could be translated to pig in Chinese. 😛
I got the same letter from mr Hairry Zhu. Here it reads below:
Dear Lock It Up Safe (www.lockitupsafe.com)
Thanks for your letter.According to our investigation, Shengteng company is a domain name investment company.They must want to get some profits from registering your company’s domain names.As domain name registrar,we are obligated to inform the matter with you.If you think these domain names are useful for your company or it will take some bad effect after being grabbed, we can help your company dispute these domain names back and register for your company,you can assist us, and operate according to the following procedures:
1.Fill in the application form which contains the cost of registration, send the form back.
2.We will cancel the registration of the third party after receiving your application form.And we will help you to register these domain names and internet keyword(Internet brand) under the name of your company.
3.We will send an invoice to you.
4.We will finish your registration completely after receiving the payment. And send the certificates to you within 15 workdays.
Attached you will find the application form, pls check,you can choose domains you need. Wishing to confirm your decision, If you have any questions, pls feel free to contact us.
Kind Regards,
Hairry Zhu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website: http://www.chooke.com.cn
What a scam.. I googled them and found a bunch of scam warnings like the one posted below.. take a look
http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-name-scams
Ahaha that was funny 😀
some have no doubts about which methods they can use to make money ^^
That was way too funny but I bet they still don’t get it.
Teriss on Twitter
got these the past couple of days:
From: tingle.liu [mailto:tingle.liu@chooke.com.cn]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:49 PM
To: sales
Subject:xxxxxxxx for domain name
Dear xxxxxxxx
We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
We have received an application formally,one company named “Tengfeng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names(www.xxxxxxxxx.com.cn http://www.xxxxxxxx.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(xxxxxx) on the internet Feb25, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Kind Regards,
Tingle.liu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email:tingle.liu@chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website:www.chooke.com.cn
2nd email i received
Dear xxxxxxx ,
You must know Domain name takes open registration(Unrestricted), this is international domain name registration rule. So everyone has right to register them(available domains). As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application. So inform your company to protect your interest. But as the
company whose trademarks relate to the applied domains, you will get the priority to register these domain names.
If you have business in asia or you want to develop business in asia in the near future, so I think these domain names are very important for you! Of course,
each company has their own idea. If you don’t think their application will affect your company, you can give up, we will finish their registration. But if you think
these domain names are useful for your company, we can send an application form to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only
way to prevent domain name grab. Pls let us know your decision soon, so that we can handle the next step.
Thanks for writing this. I received exactly the same email two days ago and got the exactly same reply that you get. I searched on the net and landed on your site. Now I’ll just reply them with a link of your site to them. 😉
Classic, excellent post, I wonder what other ways we can waste their time even more, we keep getting these emails to our directors on our website and it is a right pain in the a**e.
Got another one today from: Star Zhu star.zhu@skbyte.com, titled “Urgent Trademark Confirmation. ( TO CEO )”
I tempted to ask them for a full written proposal with payment details just to wind them up !
Hmmm……. today i got the same
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We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
We have received an application formally,one company named “Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names(www.kakasab.com.cn http://www.kakasab.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(kakasab) on the internet April 09, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Kind Regards,
Hairry Zhu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website: http://www.chooke.com.cn
Dealt with them today, here’s mine:
Wow, that’s scary. I need to secure those domains ASAP. And I don’t want to stop there.
Would I be able to have you register additional “blueskyheart” domains in addition to the list you provided? I was thinking of a few, such as:
blueskyheartYouDirtyLittleScammer.cn
blueskyheartYouveBeenAVeryNaughtyGirl.tw
blueskyheartNoGoAway.hk
blueskyheartAndThinkAboutYourKarma.in
I would be willing to pay one hundred and eleventy billion dollars for securing the rights to these domains. I hope you don’t mind Swiss frankfurters, as most of my fortune is tied up in groucho marks.
Please just tell me where I can send my money, it’s burning a hole in my fanny pack!
Spank you very much,
Layne Karkrooch Esq.
And a quick update:
On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Meryl wrote:
Layne,
According to your reply, we know your choice. So we will finish the registration of Ruty Holdings Ltd ASAP. If there are some conflicts on the internet with Ruty Holdings Ltd in future, we will not be involved with it. In addition, I am very thank you for your cooperation for our work. Have a nice day!
Best Regards
Meryl Yue
____________
Dear Meryl,
OK, I hear you…you drive a hard bargain. I’ll make it TWO hundred and eleventy billion smackeroos and I’ll throw in Thailand. (You guys still want that, right?)
Bestiality Yours,
Loyne Kangaroo
@blueskyguy – now that’s just comedy. I’ll pitch in another 6 billion worth of snickers wrappers AND send then one of the Japanese islands they tried to knab when ol Kublia was the chief, and they just HAVE to go for that one.
Rumblepup –
So sorry to trouble you! You very smart! Me, also. Please notice my professional internet services do not sell domain names. It very creative. It pays good for my family and pig. I persuade people not so smart to buy their own domain names with international suffixes. You be very surprised how smart you are as most people are not so smart. This is good business. My operations are now international! If you like, apply on line and you can work from home and make 5,000 American dollars a week! My businesses have need for intellectual like you. Please consider employment. If you achieve goals (I believe you will) , I happy to make you partner!
Best Regards!
Hairry Zhu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website: http://www.chooke.com.cn
I today received one of these spams and answered as below.
Dear Hairy Cunt,
Thank you for lettng me know about this and I much appleciate this useful inflammation of the haemmoroids. I must tell you that I was in China last
year as a very honorable visitor of Hong Kong Phooey himself who incidentally wished me a velly melly clistmas my bicycle you and I asked if he needed fries with
that. I had to go there because my shaved lobster had a wheel missing and needed an eyewash of bandicoot urine because the shaving soap was stinging the poor little
thing.
I am at pains to make a decision because at this moment I am teaching my kidneys to rollerskate and my toenails are currently learning to play an assortment of classic
woodwind instruments. Maybe one day we can get together for a long session of innapropriate touching and share an old delicacy from my homeland, fried water on
toast with a rich creamy topping of twice sauted crusty jism stains scraped from out of the front of a habitual masturbators underwear.
I am sure by now that you see my predicament and I am not talking about my male appendage here either. You see I was sat on the chod bin contemplating this so hard
that my bowels nearly ruptured while reading a copy of the reader’s digest. and it then became apparent to me, you know like one of those Eureka moments, you know Eureka
right?, nice guy, used to go to school with him but anyway I digress. As I was saying before you got me going on a tangent you naughty boy that I suddenly realised that I
was fiscally bereft although we may be able to work something out here, maybe you could float me a loan?
I will completely understand if you say no because afterall you don’t really know me although I do feel like I may be falling in love with you even though I have never even
experienced a homosexual thought before until you came along Hairy, you have truly touched my heart and maybe we can discuss the touching of other bodily parts as well.
Anyway I have a very close friend in Nigeria, well actually he is not so close at all as he lives several thousand miles away and we have never actually met but he is a very nice
and honest man anyway, even has a barrister working for him. He wrote to me some time ago and confided in me that his father who is the late president of a large oil company
although I am not sure how he ever made it that far if he was late all the time for board meetings etc but anyway where was I? Oh yes, sorry I became distracted thinking of you
and had to sneak off and blow my load over a topless picture of Bruce Lee and boy did that feel good, I bet he never even saw that one coming. Anyway Drippi Tampax my very
good friend from Nigeria inherited some considerable wealth recently and I am talking millions here and he searched the Internet for months for a soulmate to share his good
fortune with and boy was I pleased that he chose me, I think maybe he found out that I once gave a whole dollar to the Salvation Army mainly though because I never had any
smaller change.
I am helping Drippi to collect the money via his barrister, Barrister Yuran Idyut and we are so close to being able to claim this money and I feel sure that if you help out with just another bribe to the banking officials that we could collect this money for Drippi which would help him out, me out and you out, so how about it?
Maybe we could work something else out and if you like tubgirl maybe we could re-enact that only with me defecating in your mouth for the full price of the domains. I can tell you
this for sure though, don’t ask me to kiss you after that until you have at least brushed your teeth because I have eaten some pretty good curries this week and some very spicy
Mexican food.
Please let me know as soon as possible and I hope that this confirms everything to you.
Yours Sincerely
Armadillo Frogspawn
P.S. I hear they make some wonderful growth products in China, maybe you could get me some? I did once try viagra only in my haste I never read the directions properly where it said swallow the pill and wash it down with a glass of water, instead I sucked the pill and ended up with a stiff neck for a week for my troubles.
Anyway, lots of love to your unmentionables and I would like to impale your rectum right upto your sphincter with my engorged and throbbing manhood, I know this will appeal to you as much as it does me and I can confidently say that if the enlargement pills work that you may be able to take advantage of a special bonus that while I take you anally that I could also whiten your teeth at the same time and it will be on the inside edge which is where the whitening strips never reach. We may need to be careful during this manouevre as one slipup could lead to a brown spot and lump on the back of the neck. Please reply soonest…!!!!! Velly Velly Urgent.
—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:33 AM
Subject: Hairry.zhu@chooke.org.cn
> Dear potential idiot:
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> We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China. I have something need to confirm with you.
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> We have received an application formally,one company named “Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names(www.potentialidiot.com.cn http://www.potentialidiot.asia etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(potentialidiot) on the internet Jun 19, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
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> we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Hairry Zhu
> Tel: +86-21-62416070
> Fax: +86-21-62597835
> Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.org.cn
> Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
> website: http://www.chooke.org.cn
>
I got these two emails today:
Dear Sir/Madam:
This is the Domain Name registration organization in China. Here, we have some important thing confirm with your company .On July 22th 2009,
We received an formal application ,one company named “Huidian Investment Group” want to register “xxxxxxxx” as their CN/.ASIA domain
names and Internet Trademark on Internet .After our initial examination, we find the domain name and the Internet Trademark applied for registration
are the same with your company’s name and trademark. One point need you to confirm that whether the alleged Huidian Investment Group is your
business partner or distributor in China?
If like that ,we will finish the group’s application. If the group is not you partner, please let the someone who is responsible for this matter to contact us
as soon as possible to deal with the matter. Thank you!
Looking forward to hearing your reply!
Best regards!
Linda Xia,
Auditing Department:
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China Internet Service Provider:
YIGUAN IT CO., LTD.
Tel : 0086-021-6296 2950
Fax: 0086-021-6296 1557
Mail: linda@ygdns.org.cn
Web:www.ygdns.org.cn
and the second:
Dear Sir:
Thanks for your reply and info.
The Investment Group want to apply the following domain names:
http://www.xxxxxxxx.cn
http://www.xxxxxxxx.com.cn
http://www.xxxxxxxx.asia
and the Internet Trademark “xxxxxxxxx”
Because China domain names takes open registration, the domain name stays available, who registers it first, who owns it. So Huidian Investment Group or every other third party all
has right to register it.
According to the newly registration principle As a domain name registrar,we have right to dispute their application.So required by China government to inform your company to protect
your interest. Because your company is the owner of the name and your company enjoy a priority to register these names before othersw.As a registrar, we must get your company’s
confirmation and decision before do any action.
If you think their registration will confuse your clients and harm your profits, we can send an application form to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only
way to prevent domain name grab.If you need, we will send your company an application form to fill in and help your company remain the priority to register these names.
Best regards!
Linda.
2009-07-22
Hi,
I have received a similar e-mail. Did you apply to? I assume that they askf for money in the end.
Regards,
Mihai
Thanks for all of this. I got the same email from Mr Hermann Luo of . Just started to have my own fun with them. Almost better than party poker!!
I just got one of these letters and told the guy to go fuck himself.
I got a reply!….now I feel like this Tim guy is a real person! Ha ha ha ha!
he actually SWORE back at me. I am soooo happy now.
🙂
PS WATCH OUT FOR EWORLDDNR.HK TOO
From: Tim [mailto:Tim@eworlddnr.hk]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 2:01 PM
To: Official Domain Name Sucker
Subject: Re: RE: About “MyDomain” intellectual property rights( TO CEO&Principal )
Importance: High
I fuck you mother fuck you father fuck you all women you are a Feces residue
go dead
cao ni ma de zhazhong
Excellent, Dude! Thanks for brightening up my day! 8)
Say pardon the anonymous entry and thank you for putting this info out on the web. I just got one of these emails today myself. The email sent to me was from domain yiguanit.cn.
Pretty much the same jazz that everyone else is getting… Dear Manager: We are the domain name registration organization in China,who mainly duty for domain name and Internet Trademark registration work.
Thanks again!!!!!!! 🙂
No problemo
http://blog.southboundcustom.com/?p=37#comment-223
^ similar occurance documented by several people.
Here’s a list of .cn accredited registrars:
http://www.neustar.com.cn/buycn/index.html
Notice that Shanghai Yiguan IT Co.,Ltd. is missing from the list, as is this YGNetwork.cn.
Always beware when anyone approaches you via the Internet offering to sell you something. Always do your homework and know exactly where they are, with phone numbers, and legal authority to do something about it if they don’t follow through.
What happen? Some one set us up the bomb!
hello Gentlemen.
All your base are belong to us!
You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.
ha ha ha ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
Even though I know it is a scam, here is the message I composed to politely tell them “good luck”, you’re in for a battle. Cut and paste at will, adding your Company Name appropriately:
Please be advised that the term Company Name, Company Name Inc and other similar phrases including domain names is covered internationally under copyright and trademark laws and will be vehemently protected under all rights and obligations therein. Company Name has not granted or given rights or permission to Brand Marketing Holding Limited or any other entity to secure, pursue or be allowed use of our trademarks and copyright materials. Any use thereof will be construed as an infringement of our trademark and intellectual property and will pursued and enforced to the fullest extent of governing law in the region where the violation takes place.
Please review international law pertaining to commercial use of trademarks which are harbored in domain names and their subsequent registration. You may not be familiar with the protection under international law that states that registration of a domain name which incorporates a trademark by an undesignated party is protected under “cybersquatting” laws. By registering a domain which incorporates a trademark, even if unused, it is regarded as commercial use and is a violation and is protected under international law.
Company Name will vehemently protect all of our rights and use of our trademarks and other Intellectual Property. We are represented by one of the largest and best law firms in the United States who have international offices throughout Asia and Europe and specialize in intellectual property and internet law. We also maintain private investigators in 27 countries who seek violations and violators of our intellectual property. Our history of challenging improper use of our trademarks is considerable and we will exhaust all necessary resources to protect our rights domestically and internationally.
Please be guided accordingly by not granting access or permissions to this or any other company other than Company Name. We expect and require your full cooperation in this matter and strongly urge and recommend you act accordingly to avoid being named in and having to defend legal actions against all parties in the matter.
That is an awesome response!
Thank you Darren!
Awesome reply Darren. I got the scam email this morning and yes while it appeared very scam-like, for a second I thought there could be some truth in it. After a little googling however this post by Rumblepup has confirmed it’s a scam and your legal response has made my day – thanks! 🙂
Here is another: http://www.chinatlds.org email address:china-tlds.com
Just forgot to add that company’s other relevant information:
Shanghai FWon Registry Management, Ltd.
http://www.chinatlds.org/
Tel： 0086-021-37529318
Fax： 0086-021-37529316 0086-021-37529317
Address： Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai
Billing Inquiries： billing@chinaTLDs.org
Complaints： complaints@chinaTLDs.org
Suggestions/Comments： comments@chinaTLDs.org
Service mail： info@chinaTLDs.org
here also
http://www.world-wtc.cn
http://www.webworld.hk
Telephone: 00852-37556670
Fax: 00852-37556671
Address: Unit 04,7/F,Bright Waytower,No.33 MongKok Road,Kowloon,HK.
Salve, o ricevuto anche io dalla cina la medesima mail, cosa devo fare contro questa ipotetica truffa?
cordiali saluti Ruggero Zappulla
Non fare nulla. Accertarsi che la dot com, net, org o nomi di dominio registrati.
i cant believe the balls on these guys i work for a government body in Australia and they sent this crap to us also we have had it referd to our federal Police get a real job and stop the theft of honest hard works money
Thanks for bringing this scam to light. We got hit and I admit that although it felt ‘scammie’ my heart did skip a beat. I was thisclose to calling our trademark attorney but decided to research it first. Boy, you saved me an embarrassing phone call! Thanks again!
This came to me i almost went through
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Dear Debra Cole,
Thanks for your confirmation. If your company doesn’t have any relationship with”Foart Investment co.,ltd”. According to our working experience, either they invest in domain names, just like someone registered google.cn&google.com.cn and etc to get high reward several years ago, or they do the same business as you, so to confuse your customers and get profit. Because these domain names seem to have no relation with them, that’s why we send e-mail to inform you. But as a domain name registry service organization, we have no right to reject any individual or entity to register these domain names through our body, because domain name registry is open all over the world, “who register first, who own first”. I think you also know that. But it’s our duty and responsibility to avoid this cyber squatting.
Now, what you need to consider is to see whether you need to protect these domain names. If important for, pls inform us in time, so we can apply priority to register for you, and send the dispute application form to you at the same time. Due to time is limited, if you have any question, pls contact me in time. Thanks for your cooperation.
Best Regards,
Evan Cai
Senior Consultant
God this is hilarious…. these Chinese fuckers should at least learn Engrish before sending this shit. Anyhow, mine came from http://www.china.wipo.org and sounded somewhat similar to the ones listed above. The douches didn’t want to let go, so their last email threatened to tell my boss if this nefarious Chinese company were to register the domain names suggested and then put our company in trouble. Problem is, I AM THE Boss …. lol
Anyhow, I suggested that they might get better success fucking a Chinese dog than pursueing me or my company…. haven’t gotten a reply back from them.
Don’t you just love the Internet?
I’ve been sent this one too.
Note that they mess up the company name that wants our domains and change it part way through.
Topic: Urgent: Concerning ” XXXXXXXX” Brand Name dispute.
From: mark.chen@china-tlds.net
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to your CEO, as this is urgent, thank you.)
Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in China. We have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 16, 2010, one company which called “Cape Technologies Pvt. Ltd” are applying to register “XXXXXXXX” as brand name and domain names as below :
XXXXXXXX.asia
XXXXXXXX.com.cn
XXXXXXXX.com.hk
XXXXXXXX.com.tw
XXXXXXXX.in
XXXXXXXX.tw
After our initial checking, we found the brand name and these domain names being applied are as same as your company’s, so we need to get the confirmation from your company. If the aforesaid company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please don’t reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “Beaom Investment co.,ltd” unconditionally.
Best Regards,
Mark Chen
Senior Consultant
2010-07-19
This is another scam:
Dear Manager,
We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization, mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection.
On July. 21th, 2010, we formally received an application from Hongyue International Investment Co., Ltd ,
They want to apply for registering the following domain names and Internet keyword:
Domain Name :
kalositalia.net
kalositalia.cn
kalositalia.com.cn
kalositalia.hk
kalositalia.asia
kalositalia.in
kalositalia.jp
Internet Keyword :kalositalia
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword is fully identical with your trademark. Therefore, we need to confirm with you, whether you consigned hongyue International Investment Co., Ltd to register these domain names with us or not? Or, is hongyue International Investment Co., Ltd your business partner or distributor? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names.
Currently, we have already suspended this company’s application temporarily due to the seriousness of this isuue. In order to avoid the vicious domain name grabbing, please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me via telephone or email as soon as possible. Thank you for your support to our work!
Best Regards
Asia Domain Name Registration Limited
4A, Units 20/F, Far East Consortium Bldg.,
121 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong
Vivian
Tel:+852-6517 0670
Fax:+852-3069 6940
Email: admin@login-idc.hk
http://www.world-wtc.cn
Just got nailed with these a-holes the other night. I was a bit unsettled at first. Thankfully, I started Googling and found this article! Thanks so much. Here’s what I put:
Thank you very much for your interest in my domain. I sincerely appreciate your efforts to assist me in sorting this matter out! Please reference the link below as to proceed
Revelation Interactive Information (I linked this to the article)
LOL…. deusch bags
I have got the same email this week. Very funny and fuck the unmoral business action and the people work there.
Dear Rumblepup –
Can’t believe I replied to that same scam. THEN looked up the name “Cape Technologies Pvt. Ltd” Well I just told them all I own is darkhorsepress.com and I don’t plan to merge or expand, and if the other guys want to buy up all the dot-whatevers for darkhorse press I guess I might have to give up the name. Which was simply the truth, but as I now see, actually a very good answer.
Loved your remarks.
here’s the letter I got and my boss said, HS, just pay them….lol, uh, er…I don’t think so. Interestingly enough, when I emailed them – they have been calling me from China! probably from skype….
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>> (If you are not in charge of this please transfer this urgent email to your CEO, thanks.)
>>
>> Dear Manager,
>>
>> We are one of the registration and solution center in China. We have an important issue to confirm with you. On August 27th, 2010, we formally received an application, one company which called "JAC Invest inc" are applying to register " shunyata " as Internet brand and Domains:
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>> shunyata.asia
>> shunyata.com.cn
>> shunyata.com.hk
>> shunyata.com.tw
>> shunyata.hk
>> shunyata.in
>> shunyata.net.cn
>> shunyata.org.cn
>> shunyata.tw
>>
>> During our preliminary investigation, we found the brand name and these domain names being applied are as same as your company’s, so we need to confirm with your company. If the aforesaid company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 10 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by "JAC Invest inc" unconditionally.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
Wow, I got one today… from tony@cdndrc.org and “john.lee” my name has been changed to “Fashion Wow Blog”, but it said:
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)
Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in China. we have something which needs to confirm with you. We formally received an application on November 3th, 2010. One company called “Ecom Financial Management, LLC” is applying to register ” theurbangent” as Brand name and domain names as below:
fashionwowblog.asia
fashionwowblog.cn
fashionwowblog.com.cn
fashionwowblog.com.hk
fashionwowblog.com.tw
fashionwowblog.hk
fashionwowblog.in
fashionwowblog.tw
After our initial checking, we found the Brand name and domain names being applied are as same as your company! So we need confirmation with your company. If the aforementioned company is your business partner or your subsidiary, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you don’t have any relationship with this company, please contact us within 5 workdays. If over the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “Ecom Financial Management, LLC ” unconditionally.
Best Regards,
Tony Cui
Senior consultant
2010-11-08
I replied, saying that I am not in relation to that website and to please reject their application.
Then they replied saying…
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your confirmation. If your company does not have any relationship with “Ecom Financial Management, LLC”, according to our work experience, either they just invest these domain names. Just like a company named Beijing national network information LLC registered google.cn & google.com.cn in 2005, and then they made lots of return from these two domain names. (Google Company failed to make a arbitration and paid 1 million USD dollars to redeem the two domain names.) Or they are just your trade, and confuse your clients to make profit. Because it seems that these domain names have no relationship with them, that’s why we send e-mail to inform you. As a domain name registration service organization, we have no right to reject any individual or entity register available domain names through us, because domain name registration is open worldwide, the policy is “ first register, first own”. I think you also know this. But it’s our duty and responsibility to avoid the registration in bad faith, so we inform you this issue in advance before the registration starts.
Now, what you need to consider is that whether these domain names are important to your company? If important to you, we will apply the priority to register for your company; meanwhile, we will send you the dispute application form and cost list. Due to time is limited, if you have any other question, pls contact with us in time. Thanks for four cooperation！
Best Regards,
Tony Cui
Senior consultant
2010-11-09
tony@cdndrc.org，tony@cdndrc.org
2010-11-09
Wow… I just got an email very similar to this and I nearly went along with it… Hard to believe this scam is still going on 2 years after this post.
Brilliant ! thanks for this. I got this scam email today. After telling him I had already registered the .cn domains with someone else he said “your action make me very sad. We havent met such kind of doing before”. Then again they probably havent met anyone with a brain either.
Here is the email scam I got today
Dear CEO ,
Good day!
We are a domain name registration organization in Asia, which mainly deal with dispute internationally and the registration of domain names all over the world. We have something important need to confirm with your company.
On the Nov. 24, 2010, we received a formal application from a company called “Elysecond Co., LTD” who are applying to register “ggrglass” as domain names.
After our initial examination, we found that domain name applied for registration are as same as your company’s trademark. We don’t know whether you have any relation with them. These days we are dealing with it.If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other purposes to register these domain names. If they are your business partner or distributor in Asia, we will automatically confirm application from your business partner after this audit procedure. Now we have not finished the registration of “Elysecond Co., LTD” yet, in order to deal with this issue better and this issue is very urgent and the time is limited.
Please contact us by email as soon as possible. Thank you for your support to our work!
Best Regards,
Sponsoring Registrar: Sk China Technology Limited
ATTN:Rice.Wan
HongKong Office
Tel:+852-95660489
Fax:+852-30696940
E-mail: rice.wan@skhkdns.com.cn
Web: http://www.China-sk.org
Here’s another set of details to add to the list from the one I got today:
‘We formally received an application from “Lioner Holdings Ltd”‘
‘Chirs
Auditing Engineer
Web: http://www.chinaonenet.net
Tel: +852-95660-103
+852-95660-489
Fax: +852-30696-940
Mail: Chirs@chinaonenet.hk.cn & Chirs@china-onenet.net‘
What idiots these people are. How about trying working for a living?
Thanks guys above for a laugh and confirming what I thought about this email being a scam.
Cheers, Mike.