Is this a Domain Name scam ? - Has anyone else recieved emails like this?

Hi,

I have just recieved this strange email and I want to know if it is legit or part of some elaborate scam. Has anyone else recieved emails like this or know anything about it?

Thanks

 

Well, cant predict much from this email. You better first communicate with him but make sure to deal with them.

 

Based on the bad English and the use of only a first name signature I call Bull sh&t!

 

The name also... JUDITH? Americans and the English named that don`t use it.. Judy I might buy but, JUDITH? NAH! I smell Nigeria

 

SCAM!
If somehow it's legit, they'll keep sending the mail until you reply

 

And your call is right on the dot.

This thing's merely a solicitation. Many can argue it's a scam, but it's one that
won't isn't required to do anything.

To the OP: feel free to ignore it if you really don't need the extension or so the
letter might indicate.

 

They don't mention their organization's name nor their phone number. Ignore the email.

 

Indeed, that's smells the rats! Their approach is not professional and doesn't make much sense at all. They just are trying to get some information from you.
Ask them where their company is registered, just to see and call their "bluff"!

Beware!

 

Ignore it and work only with the issues from your own domain name registrar. You can report to the ICaNN if you would like to

 

yea.. its a simple scam to make u buy domains you will never need.. ignore these people and live your life..

 

If you use yahoo mail, bulk email may be scam

 

Agreed, its a scam, ignore it.

 

Only if registrar contacts u then u should believe in such cases i guess

 

It's a SCAM. Why? Simple, no proper name (only first name), no contact number or address.
And BTW, has anyone heard an audit on a domain name before?

 

I think if you are worried enough to ask the question it should immediatley raise a red flag and you should delete the email.

 

It's a scam. DOn't even bother replying.

They got your email from your registration.

 

I received the same email and made the reply but now I think that it's a scam.

Mail received:

 

I agree, it definitely looks like scam

 

This is nothing new and is indeed a scam to force you to buy ccTLD's. In fact I wrote about this in my blog about an year ago and you can see some of the transcripts there. And if you search Google - you should get plenty of similar emails floating around.

Best advice - do not contact back / just delete such emails.

Thx

 

Just received a virtually identical message to the one Evil quoted. It reads:

Note the common element: Peter Lin is said to be the interested party in both cases. That raises my suspicion that Peter Lin is a fictitious individual created to convince people to buy redundant .cn domain registrations through their company. The company is apparently a real Chinese domain registration company, at least they have an active website. Definitely not Nigerian. But I can imagine them eventually saying something like, well if you don't want us to sell it to this Peter Lin guy, then you'll have to buy it yourself.

The message quoted above and the message I received are both from the "Checking Department" of the same company. In both cases the individual sending the message did not provide a full name, and despite being apparently Chinese, used an Anglican first name. The one I got, the sender's signature line provided a reply e-mail as margaret(at)jsntwifi(dot)com but the message was actually sent from c(at)sntwifi(dot)com

Very glad to have found this thread; it gives me confidence in the conclusion that I can just disregard this msg.