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domain name dispute
Can anyone please clarify if this email I posted below is? Our domain name is registered but someone would like to use our domain brand name.
"Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks)
Dear President,
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 11,2013 that a company which self-styled "QC Intl Ltd" were applying to register "spectruminc" as their Brand Name and some domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, 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 you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for "QC Intl Ltd".Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Can this be a spam?
Thanks in advance.
"Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks)
Dear President,
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 11,2013 that a company which self-styled "QC Intl Ltd" were applying to register "spectruminc" as their Brand Name and some domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, 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 you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for "QC Intl Ltd".Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Can this be a spam?
Thanks in advance.
No....but what actually the spam message say?
ASKER
It's posted. Below is the message. the sender's extension is ".des-registry.org"
"Urgent notice about dispute domain registration
Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks)
Dear President,
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 11,2013 that a company which self-styled "QC Intl Ltd" were applying to register "spectruminc" as their Brand Name and some domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, 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 you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for "QC Intl Ltd".Looking forward to your prompt reply."
"Urgent notice about dispute domain registration
Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks)
Dear President,
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 11,2013 that a company which self-styled "QC Intl Ltd" were applying to register "spectruminc" as their Brand Name and some domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, 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 you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for "QC Intl Ltd".Looking forward to your prompt reply."
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More information about this hoax from 3 good pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_scams
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/domain-name-application-scam.shtml
http://www.welivesecurity.com/2012/07/24/asia-domain-name-scams-still-going-strong/
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"We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China" fraud scam hoax
It will search for pages which contain that full and exact double-quoted sentence and which ALSO contain ANY or ALL of the words fraud, scam, and hoax.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_scams
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/domain-name-application-scam.shtml
http://www.welivesecurity.com/2012/07/24/asia-domain-name-scams-still-going-strong/
Probably the best way to refine a google search is to pick out a sentence that is quite unique, either because of bad spelling/grammar or uncommon word combinations, and double-quote that sentence in your google search. That way it will try to find pages that have the exact same sentence, inclusive of misspelled words, in the order given. For example, if you enter this search:
"We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China" fraud scam hoax
It will search for pages which contain that full and exact double-quoted sentence and which ALSO contain ANY or ALL of the words fraud, scam, and hoax.
This is also a good way to check when an Experts-Exchange "expert" has copied and pasted somebody else's entire web page content here in a comment without providing a link to the original page out of carelessness, or while wrongly pretending that it is their own material (example) ;-) It works particularly well where the double-quoted phrase or sentence contains a spelling mistake.