The Chinese be tryin’ to stealz my domainz.

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3cho.

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Seriously though, this morning I got a “very urgent” e-mail from Elvis Wang in china (see below) stating that some company was going to register our brand in all (or a lot of) the Asian domain suffixes.

Has anyone ever run into this before? My first thought is it’s a scammer trying to get me to register the domains, and my second thought is that it’s some fucking camper trying to leverage them (I’m looking at you wickedfire….).

Thoughts?

---------E-mail-----------
[FONT=&quot](It's very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, Thanks)

Dear CEO/Principal,

This is Elvis Wang---Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in china. have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on June 23th, 2011, one company which self-styled "Tendiy Company" were applying to register "corvalliscustom" as Network Brand and following domain names:
" corvalliscustom.asia
corvalliscustom.cn
corvalliscustom.co.in
corvalliscustom.com.cn
corvalliscustom.com.hk
corvalliscustom.com.tw
corvalliscustom.hk
corvalliscustom.in
corvalliscustom.net.cn
corvalliscustom.org.cn
corvalliscustom.tw"
After our initial checking, we found that the brand name applied for registration are as same as your company[/FONT]’[FONT=&quot]s name and brand, 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 your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can't get any information from yours over 7 workdays, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by "Tendiy Company" .
Thanks for your cooperation. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Best Regards,[/FONT]



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fishing for domain registrations...[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]part of me wants to fuck with this guy, but all in all it's probably not worth my time..

[FONT=&quot]
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Thank you very much for your confirmation. I'm afraid I can not provide you any contact information about "Tendiy Company" company, this is privacy question involved, hope [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]you to understand. At present the most important thing is whether you need to register those domain names to protect your intellectual property rather than what the [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]company is.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]as soon as receiving the application of "Tendiy Company" company , we checked and found "corvalliscustom" is your company's registered trademark. that's why we sent [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]email to you. As a professional registrar we don't hope the domains will be registered without your awareness. but you should know that the domain names registeration [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]is open in the world, "Tendiy Company" company also has the right to apply for the available domain names. you only own the preferential rights to register them.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If you think "Tendiy Company" company application will effect your benefit, we can help your company dispute their application and then register them under your own name. pls let [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]us know soon, or else we think it as your waiver. In that time we don't bear any responsibility, Because we had informed you.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]
have a nice day.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Best Regards,[/FONT]
 
Dude I got a similar e-mail about one of my sites last week, this was my reply and never heard back not sure what happened.


Hi,

Yes, they are my distributor and partner. We also specialize in distributing mustard snacks. Have you seen our new website Mustard Snack - Ideal for quick snack for lunch :) ? Please let us know if you would like to order any mustard snacks.

Looking forward to your reply,

Thanks.
 
m0rtal's response was awesome^^ I've gotten a few of these emails as well but I just ignored 'em. I bet some people fall for them I guess.
 
Everyone will try to steal anything worth money, not just domains...
It's just sad through when a scam is so obvious that people still fall for it enough..
...the reason they are still spamming is because they have a certain sucess %.
 
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