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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Joe H on March 16, 2009, 01:15:48 pm

Title: E-Mail - scam?
Post by: Joe H on March 16, 2009, 01:15:48 pm

I got an email this morning - dont know if its genuine or not.
Any one had anything similar?  Is it a scam do you know?
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To whom it may concern               2009-3-16
We are a domain name registration service company in Asia,

Last week we received a formal application submited by Mr. John Zhou who wanted to use the keyword  "warringtoncarpetcleaning" to  register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn /.com.cn /.net.cn/.hk/ .asia/ domain names.

After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration  are same as your  domain name and trademark. We aren’t sure whether you have any relation with him. Because these domain names would produce possible dispute, now we have hold down his registration, but if we do not get your company’s an reply in the next 5 working days, we will approve his application

In order to handle this issue better, Please contact us by Fax ,Telephone or Email as soon as possible.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Joy

Checking Department

Tel:   86 513 8532 2060
Fax:  86 513 8532 2065
Email:joy@ntwifinetwork.com
Website: www.ntwifinetwork.com

Mail No.:852226

Title: Re: E-Mail - scam?
Post by: Doug Holloway on March 16, 2009, 01:29:45 pm

Hi Joe

I got the same thing for one of my sites.

Websites are on a first come first served basis, so why anyone would want to notify anyone else is beyond me, obvious scam.

Cheers

Dpog

Title: Re: E-Mail - scam?
Post by: derek west on March 16, 2009, 01:35:36 pm

i think there trying to get you to buy the other extensions, thats all, wouldn't worry about it joe. he's not applied (if at all) for .com or .co.uk just all the other useless ones that won't concern you, just trying to worry you in to buying other extensions to cut down competition.
thanks but no thanks is your answer.
derek

Title: Re: E-Mail - scam?
Post by: John Kelly on March 16, 2009, 02:47:34 pm

This is common and absolutely disgraceful. They normally tell you someone is trying to register domain names in your trading name but with a different web extension than you are using. They do it hoping you will then buy up those other domain extensions before someone else does. Happened to us a while ago and they were a UK company. Scum.

Title: Re: E-Mail - scam?
Post by: carpet_care on March 16, 2009, 07:15:05 pm

I,ve had it happen to me 3 times over the last 5 years they ring up saying you have mellingcarpetcare .co.uk we have a company here who wants to register .com and .net in your arear.

  I seen through it straight away the first time luckily enough and just said oh very good, they said why are you not bothered about stopping them and I saidno dont get much off the internet anyway which I didnt at the time.


Infact the first time was about 6 or 7 years ago and nobody has registered with them names yet .


 As has been said just a scam to get you to think I better pay to stop this when nothing was happening in the first place.



   Scum Bags >:(




 Regards Andy Locke.