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2. I got one but note the email address is hk-nsc.org.cn bu the real Hong Kong domaion registration company is hknsc.org.hk !! as follows from Received: (qmail 9923 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2008 13:44:54 +1100
   Received: from hk2.cn4e.com (210.17.246.143)
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   Received: from mail.mail12.cn4e.com (mail.mail12.cn4e.com [210.51.187.184])
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   for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:21:47 +0800 (HKT)
   Received: from mail.mail12.cn4e.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
   by mail.mail12.cn4e.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F038C1C8
   for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:21:28 +0800 (CST)
   Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:21:57 +0800
   From: “linda.yang”
   To: “xx”
   Subject: YOUR DOMAIN NAME (navigategmp)’SCURRENT SITUATION
   Message-ID:
   X-mailer: Foxmail 6, 14, 103, 24 [cn]
   Disposition-Notification-To: “linda.yang”
   Mime-Version: 1.0
   Content-Type: multipart/related;
   boundary=”=====002_Dragon431803154543_=====”;
   type=”multipart/alternative”
   Dear Sir and Madam,
   We are a domain name registration organization in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with the domain names’ conflicts of company in Asia regions. We received a formal application from a company that is applying to register some domain names with the keyword “xxx” and register it as their internet keyword on December 24, 2008. After investigation, we found that it is the same as your company name and trademark, so we inform you of this issue. In order to find out if it could affect you or not, we still have not confirm the third company yet. And if you think the domains are important and would like to protect them by registering ahead, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
   Best Regards,
   Linda.yang
   Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited
   Address: 19/F., First Block, New World Bldg.,
   No.18 Quen Middle Road,
   Zhonghuan,
   Hong Kong
   Tel: +852-31757931 (ext8024)
   Fax: +852- 31757932
   Email: linda.yang@hk-nsc.org.cn
   website: http://www.hknsc.hk

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4. Chuckle – I’m glad I checked into this because I just recently got one myself.

   Thanks.

5. Recently recived one myslf from jackey.zhuang@hongkongnet.org

   Is it an organisation (hongkongnet.org) listed / registered in HongKong ? Does someone have details of this organisation ?

6. @Anuj:

   The street address in their domain registration is fake / incomplete. They use a HK phone number but their WHOIS claims they’re based in Beijing. They probably don’t really want anyone to know where they’re based.

   http://whois.domaintools.com/hongkongnet.org

7. Thank you for writing about this! I also received one from andy@asiaton.cn.
   More people should know about this!

8. Here is mine.

   Dear Sir/Madam,
   We are Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited which is the domain name register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “xxxxxx” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Jan 9, 2009. Since after our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark, so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon. Thanks for your co-operation and support.
   Best Regards,

   Leo.Wang
   Tel: +852-31757931(ext.8015)
   Fax: +852-31757932
   Email:leo.wang@hk-net.hk
   Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited
   Website: http://www.hknsc.hk

9. Glad to see this post – I received one this morning and was quite concerned. It came from andy.liu@hknetwork.hk

10. Good post. Same as Mark I got an email from andy.liu@hknetwork.hk

    I googled “hong kong network service company limited we received a formal application from a company who is applying to register” and found this helpful post.

    What a bunch of cheap-shot, low grade spammers!

11. Here is another one:

    ====
    Dear Sir/Madam,

    We are one of the domain name registration centers in Asia.Now we have something urgent to confirm with your company.

    On the February 1, 2009, we received a application from Panorama Bearing Investment Co.,Ltd.,to register “xxxxxxxxx” as their Internet Brand and Asian Pacific domain names. Because this involves the intellectual property of your company’s name,patents,trademarks,and copyright, so we inform you of this.If you consider these domain names and Internet Brand are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, please contact us soon.Thank you.

    I am waiting for your urgent reply,
    Kind Regards,

    Joseph Tu

    —————————————

    Asia Channel Limited

    Tel: +86-571-86727080 (Mon–Fri,9am to 6:30pm,GMT+8)

    Fax: +86-571-28926277(24Hour) Mail: Joseph.tu@asiachannel.com.cn
    ====

12. And another example:

    ====
    (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please transfer to the right person/department. Thank you.)

    Dear CEO,

    First of all, I think you must have a nice day!

    We , a registrar organization in China, have something to check with you. We received an application today. One company called “Tuble Trading Co. LTD” is applying for “##############” as internet brand and following Asian/.CN domain names to use.
    ##############.asia
    ##############.cn
    ##############.com.cn
    ##############.com.hk
    ##############.com.tw
    ##############.hk
    ##############.in
    ##############.net.cn
    ##############.org.cn
    ##############.tw
    After checking, we found the keyword of these domain names and internet brand is as same as your company’s, so we need to check this with your company. 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 ” Tuble Trading Co. LTD” unconditionally.

    Best Regards

    Tom: Lead Checker

    T: 0086-21-5271-5980

    F: 0086-21-5271-5978

    http://www.publicdomain.org.cn

    2009-01-14
    ====

13. And another from last November:

    ====
    Nov 25, 2008

    Domain name & Internet keyword

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    We are Beijing AUG Networks Technology Co., Ltd which is the domain name and internet keyword registration service company in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “ ############## ” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Nov 24, 2008.Since through our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark so we inform you in no time. If you consider the domain name and internet keyword are important to your company and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon.

    Kind Regards,

    Jhon Lee

    Registration Comissioner

    Tel/fax:+86-10-82797446

    Email: jhon.lee@augnetworks.cn

    Website: http://www.augnetworks.cn

    ====

14. And another:

    ====
    Subject: Notice of disputing domain name in China

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

    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 November 7th, 2008, One company which self-styled “Jick Soft Inc.” is applying to register “##############” as internet brand and domain names as below :

    ##############.asia
    ##############.cn
    ##############.com.cn
    ##############.com.hk
    ##############.com.tw
    ##############.hk
    ##############.in
    ##############.net.cn
    ##############.org.cn
    ##############.tw

    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand being applied for registration is as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”Jick Soft Inc.” as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.

    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 “Jick Soft Inc”.

    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    —————————————

    Thomas Song
    Senior Consultant
    Tel: +0085-2-3178-1989 Fax: +0085-2-3175-8227
    Website: http://www.registry-china.org.cn
    Address:5/F,Max share Centre,373 King’s Road North Point, Hongkong
    ====

15. Hi, thanks for your very useful website. I received this scam too, exactly like the Hong Kong examples above. I recently registered my company’s trade mark in a European country, so this Hong Kong email by someone called Leo Wang looked quite serious first. Apparently they use European trade mark databases as their source? Or is it a pure coincidence? Fortunately I am rather suspicious and the first thing I did, was using Google with a fragment of the scam mail. That brought me to your site (and several others). Thank God that there are websites like this, informing us about this nasty type of fraude.
    THANKS!

16. Got another one today:

    ====
    (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/department. Thank you)

    Dear CEO,

    We , a registrar organization in China, have something to check with you. We received an application on Feb 26th. One company called “Repeate Investment Co. LTD ” is applying for “yourdomainname” as internet brand and following Asian/.CN domain names to use.
    yourdomainname.asia
    yourdomainname.com.hk
    yourdomainname.com.tw
    yourdomainname.hk
    yourdomainname.in
    yourdomainname.net.cn
    yourdomainname.org.cn
    yourdomainname.tw
    After checking, we found the internet brand and keyword of these domain names are as same as your company’s, so we need to check this with your company.
    If the aforesaid company is your subsidiary company or your business partner, please DO NOT 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 ” Repeate Trading Co. LTD ” unconditionally.

    Best Regards,

    Bary Zou
    Lead Checker
    Tel: +86-21-37529318
    Fax: +86-21-37529316
    website: http://www.china-publicdomain.net.cn
    2009-02-27
    ====

17. Second time we received one:

    Dear Sir/Madam,
    We are Hong Kong Network service Company Limited, a domain name registration center in Asia.
    On Mar 03, we received an application from another company for the domain names “yourdomain” , but later we found your company is their original owner and this may involve your company name or trademark and this may cause confusion between your products and others’ , and bring about negtive effect on your company.Therefore we decided to inform you of this and check out your attitude toward this matter. We would appreciate if you can spare some precious time to settle this issue.
    Thank you for your cooperation and looking forwards to your early reply.

    Kind Regards,

    Kim Yang

    2009-03-04
    ________________________________________

    Tel: +852-31757930（8016）
    Fax: +852-31757932
    Email:kim.yang@hongkongnet.org
    Hong Kong Network Service Company Limited
    website:www.hknsc.hk

18. I got one too, yet another name:
    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 March 9, 2009, One company which self-styled “Osmanthus Technology, Inc” are applying to register xx as internet brand and domain names as below :
    xx

    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us as soon as possible.
    In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is ten days. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Osmanthus Technology, Inc”.

    Best Regards,

    ——————————————————————————–

    John Wang
    Senior consultant
    ( Tel: +0085-2-3178-1989 ( Fax: +0085-2-3175-8227
    Website:http://www.87-global.asia
    Address: UnitA,5/F,Max share Centre,373 King’s Road North Point, Hongkong

19. @Torsten – yep, got the exact same one as you on the same day too!

    THANKS for posting this thread!!

20. Joe,

    We just received a scam letter, too. (see below) My question is this: What can you do about it? Is there a Chinese government effort to clean these people up?

    From: Henry Wang [mailto:henry.wang@fw-chinadnr.org]
    Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:25 PM
    To: mtoplansky
    Subject: Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights Dispute in China
    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
    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 March 24th, 2009, One company which self-styled “Indian MranSystems Inc.” are applying to register “corestrategies” as internet brand and CN domain names as below :
    corestrategies.asia
    corestrategies.cn
    corestrategies.com.cn
    corestrategies.com.hk
    corestrategies.com.tw
    corestrategies.hk
    corestrategies.in
    corestrategies.net.cn
    corestrategies.org.cn
    corestrategies.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”Indian MranSystems Inc”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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”Indian MranSystems Inc.”
    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,
    ________________________________________
    Henry Wang
    Senior Consultant
     Tel: +0086-21-37529318  Fax: +0086-21-37529316
    Website: http://www.fw-chinadnr.net.cn
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

21. Hello Marshall,

    the sad fact is that international online scams in general are a low priority for law enforcement in most countries, and this scam will rank low amongst other scams.

    As general rule, the police will not seriously get involved in international online scams unless the damages run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    Scammers who defraud only people outside the country where they are based usually face little risk of arrest. This is not only true for scammers in China, but also in Europe, where say Nigerian scammers based in the Netherlands will refer Dutch victims to colleagues based in Spain, the UK or Nigeria (and vice versa), to make sure the police is always in another country.

    To be a bit cynical, police officers stand a better chance of getting promoted if they concentrate on cases where both the criminal and the victim are based in the same country as the officers and the courts. If they have too many cases to handle already, why should they concentrate on cases that do not directly affect their fellow countrymen?

    In the case of the registration scams, it’s not even that obvious that laws have been broken. Yes, they’re liars, swindlers, who are doing something highly unethical, but how can you or I *prove* that the third party they claim is after “our” domain names doesn’t actually exist?

    It’s not like we were placing an order for 100 cell phones, pay for them and then not receiving them. When even that kind of openly criminal scam barely gets prosecuted, what hope is there with scams like these? Not much.

    While there is a lot to be done to clean up internet related services in China (including numerous international spam gangs using Chinese servers as hubs of their criminal botnets), relatively small scale scams like this one are not going to be at the top of anyone’s list.

22. thanks for this post,I just got one too from mhenry.wang@registry-china.org.cn

23. Thank you all ever so kindly, I just copied and pasted comments from this blog in a return email to the return addressee.

    Judy Johnson DDS
    http://www.dentalvisits.com

24. I just received one of these from Henry Wang today:

    ———- Forwarded message ———-
    From: Henry Wang
    Date: 2009/4/16
    Subject: Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights Dispute in China
    To: mail

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
    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 April 15th, 2009, One company which self-styled “Indian LaserSystems Inc.” are applying to register “xxx” as internet brand and CN domain names as below :
    xxx.asia
    xxx.cn
    xxx.com.cn
    xxx.com.hk
    xxx.com.tw
    xxx.hk
    xxx.in
    xxx.net.cn
    xxxorg.cn
    xxx.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”Indian LaserSystems Inc”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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”Indian LaserSystems Inc.”
    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,
    ________________________________
    Henry Wang
    Senior Consultant
    ( Tel: +0086-21-37529318 ( Fax: +0086-21-37529316
    Website: http://www.fw-chinadnr.net.cn
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

25. we just received one too from Henry Wang, almost exactly like the one above. Maybe someone should phone Henry…

26. And another one (I’ve replaced the domain name of the recipient with YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME):

    ====
    (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/department. Thank you)

    Dear CEO,
    We , a registration organization in China, We formally received an application on May.5th,named “Robert Investment Co. Ltd” from America,Applying for “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME” as internet brand and following Asian/.CN domain names to use.
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.asia
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.tw
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.net.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.org.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.tw
    And told us that the economy of United States is very seriously now, so they want to run a new company in China, want to develop in Asia area, therefore, want to register these domain names and using.
    After our initial checking, we found the internet brand 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 DO NOT 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 “Robert Investment Co. Ltd” unconditionally.

    Best Regards,
    John Yang
    Senior Director
    Tel? +0086-551-3650216
    Fax?+0086-551-3650762
    http://www.tuojing-china.cn
    2009-05-06
    ====

27. Thanks for this. I received an email from hknsc.hk. first thing this morning. Initially I dismissed it as a scam but got a bit worried when I saw their quantcast rating and wondered if they are were actually a large and legitimate company. Typed in hknsc scare in Google and found the posts to your site which seem to indicate they are just out to scare domain owners in to registering useless domain names. I suppose they could actually build their whole business on this – considering how many poeple worldwide will respond to them. The company they allege to be in pursuit of our domain name has “zero” presence on the Net. Thanks for the information.

28. Received on 11 May 2009:

    ====
    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is very urgent.)
    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 May 11. 2009, One company which self-styled “Banas Industrial Co.,Ltd” are applying to register “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME” as Internet Brand and Domain Names as below :
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.asia
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.tw
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.net.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.org.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this “Banas Industrial Co.,Ltd” as the same company, there is no need reply to us, We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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 “Banas Industrial Co.,Ltd”.
    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,
    Tony Hong (Mr)
    senior consultant
    T: +0086-21-375 293 18
    F: +0086-21-375 293 16
    Website: http://www.fwo-cdnr.org.cn
    Postal Code: 200063
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District, Shanghai
    2009-05-11

    ——————————————————————————–

    tony.hong
    ====

29. Received March 16:

    ====

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

    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 March 16, 2009, One Japan company called “Path soft investment Corp” are applying to register (YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME) as internet brand name and domain names as below (YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.net.cn YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.org.cn YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.asia YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.mobi YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.hk YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.cc YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.tw YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.tel etc.).

    After our initial checking, we found the internet 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 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 “Path soft investment Corp” unconditionally.

    We would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Best Regards,

    Kevin Wu
    Senior Director
    TEL: +86 21 69929440
    Fax: +86 21 69929447
    Website:www.qepeng.org.cn
    Address:Room 902,8th,nong 1518,Jinyuan 1st Road,Jiading District, Shanghai city.

30. Received March 18:
    ====
    (If you are NOT CEO, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks.)

    Dear CEO ,

    We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china. we have something need to confirm with you. we formally received an applicationon on March 16, 2009. one company which called “Felit Trading Ltd” are applying to register “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME” as internet brand and following Domains:
    “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.asia
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.tw
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.net.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.org.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.tw”
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. these days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. if your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, please contact us as soon as possible.
    In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit is 7 workdays. if your company files no reply within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Felit Trading Ltd”.

    Best Regards,

    Peter Wong
    Senior consultant
    Tel: 0086-021-37529318
    Fax: 0086-021-37529316
    Web: http://www.fw-chinadnr.org.cn
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai
    ====

31. Received on 2008-05-13:
    ====
    Received: from mailbox-us-s-6d.mailhostingserver.com
    (mailbox-us-s-6e.mailhostingserver.com [67.15.184.195]) by MY.MAIL.HOST
    (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2838840A836 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009
    23:36:43 -0400 (EDT)
    Received: from bdbf9dea54df4f5 (unknown [61.172.83.98]) (Authenticated
    sender: chars@worldwidesolution.org) by mailbox-us-s-6d.mailhostingserver.com
    (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 833D564E0755; Wed, 13 May 2009 03:36:41 +0000 (GMT)
    Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:36:36 +0800
    From: “Chars Lau”
    To:
    Subject: YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME dispute of domain name
    Message-ID: <200905131136351568524@worldwidesolution.org>
    X-mailer: Foxmail 6, 10, 201, 20 [cn]
    Disposition-Notification-To: “Chars Lau”
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=”=====002_Dragon664231308684_=====”; type=”multipart/alternative”

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO or your legal department, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

    Dear CEO ,

    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 May 13th, 2009, we received an application formally, one person named “Peter Alldis” wanted to applied for the Internet brand “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME” 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 “Peter Alldis” to register these domain names through us or not? Or is “Peter Alldis” 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.
    In addition, I must state that we have time limited for one person or one company’s registration. It is just 15 days. If your company files doesn’t resent within the time limited. We will unconditionally authorized the application of “Peter Alldis”.Thank you for your cooperate.

    Best Regards,
    Chars
    Registration Commissioner

    Mail:chars@worldwidesolution.org
    Web:www.worldwidesolution.org

32. We have had two e-mials..an ‘introduction’ and then a second, more detailed message of ‘intent’ listing the seven domains that this ‘company’ was intending to register’on behalf of their ‘client’ .

    Ours was another one generated using hk-nsc.org but this person openly gives his web address as ‘www.hknsc.hk’ a legitimate looking company that actually shows its true e-mail contact is ‘info@hknsc.hk’

    Our ‘contact’ is a Henry William.
    However, his command of the English Language is not quite all that one might expect from someone with such an Anglo Saxon name……I wonder whether he has Charles, James and George as middle names…….

    Dear Sir or Madam,

    We are a domain name registration center in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On May 11,2009 we received a formal application from a local company who is applying to register several domains, using “surestartresources ”as the Internet keyword. After investigation,we find that you are the original user of the keyword. Such similar domain cases may involve your trademark and company name,and may cause website confusion and conflicts. For a responsible attitude, we inform you here and ask for your opinion. If you don’t mind,we will finish registration for the third company.

    Look forward to your reply.

    Thanks

    Kind Regards,
    Henry

    Tel: +852-31757930 ext.8106
    Fax:+852-31757932
    Email:william.henry@hk-nsc.org
    Website:www.hknsc.hk

    Sorry Henry but, thanks to this blog, you have been outed. Many thanks to everyone who has bothered to feedback the scamformation!

33. (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
    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 May 18th, 2009, One company which self-styled “Kbudes Holding Inc.” are applying to register “customdesign” as internet brand and CN domain names as below :
    customdesignsource.asia
    customdesignsource.cn
    customdesignsource.com.cn
    customdesignsource.com.hk
    customdesignsource.com.tw
    customdesignsource.hk
    customdesignsource.in
    customdesignsource.net.cn
    customdesignsource.org.cn
    customdesignsource.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”Kbudes Holding Inc”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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”Kbudes Holding Inc.”
    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,
    ________________________________________
    Henry Wang
    Senior Consultant
     Tel: +0086-21-37529318  Fax: +0086-21-37529316
    Email:henry.wang@fwo-cdnr.net.cn
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

    Got another one of these. Just a few weeks back, I was contacted by another “company” because of the same reason.

    Well thanks to this blog post, Henry has been kicked to the curb… Again…

34. Received: from Admin-PC (unknown [58.41.95.24])
    (Authenticated sender: johnson@ygregistrar.org.cn)
    by mx3.chinaemail.cn (Postfix) with ESMTP id B598171D58C
    for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 14:53:52 +0800 (CST)
    Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:53:59 +0800
    From: “johnson”
    ====
    Dear Manager

    We are Chinese domain name registration company, an Service organization of Internet in China .

    We received Aidexing(HK) Group Ltd’s request of registration on May.13, This company applied to register Internet brand( YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME ) and the related CN(China) domain names through our company .

    Whether this is your branch? If like that, we will finish this company’s application. If this company is not your partner or distributor in China, hope you can contact us in time so that we can deal with this matter better.

    Have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact us, we will do our best to help you.

    Best regards!

    Johnson Kang

    Overseas Registration Dept
    +86 21 6296 2950-Office
    +86 21 6296 1557
    +86 159 2108 1302-Cell
    Email: johnson@ygregistrar.org.cn
    Web: http://www.ygregistrar.org.cn

35. Received: from WANGWENQI (unknown [222.72.138.238])
    by mail.kwww.cn (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137DA25047D;
    Fri, 1 May 2009 18:06:28 +0800 (CST)
    Reply-To: alex.ke@tc-chinareg.org.cn
    From: “Alex Ke”
    To:
    Subject: Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights Dispute in China
    Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:52:18 +0800
    Message-Id:
    ====
    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
    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 April 29th, 2009, One company which self-styled “Malfin Holding Inc.” are applying to register “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME” as internet brand and CN domain names as below :
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.asia
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.com.tw
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.hk
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.in
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.net.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.org.cn
    YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”Malfin Holding Inc”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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”Malfin Holding Inc.”
    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    ——————————————————————————–

    Alex Ke
    Senior Consultant
    ( Tel: +0086-566-2081651 ( Fax: +0086-566-2087607
    Website: http://www.tc-chinareg.org.cn
    Address:Room407,Building No.22 Hetai Star city, Donghu Road,Guichi District,Chizhou

36. I replied to this guy, asking how much to register the domains. Their prices were reasonable, however the catch was it was a minimum 5 years registration period. If we had registered all of them for 5 years, the cost would have run to a couple of thousand dollars. He even had the hide to phone me after emailing a registration form. His accent was Chinese, but he had clearly learned his English from someone with an American accent.

    I did some quick checks and found that the website mentioned in his address block failed to work. Another tell-tale sign it was a scam is that his email domain didn’t match his website domain. I ran a Who-Is check on the website domain name and interestingly it had only been registered two weeks prior to me receiving his solicitation:

    From: David Yao [mailto:david.yao@fw-chinadnr.net]
    Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 3:36 PM
    Subject: Notice of disputing domain name in China
    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)
    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 May 13 2009, One company which self-styled “Boleh soft Corp.” are applying to register “[removed]” as internet brand and domain names as below :
    [removed].asia
    [removed].cn
    [removed].com.cn
    [removed].com.hk
    [removed].com.tw
    [removed].hk
    [removed].in
    [removed].net.cn
    [removed].org.cn
    After our initial checking, we found the internet brand 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 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 “Boleh soft Corp.” unconditionally.

    Best Regards,
    David Yao

37. Received the same scam. Thanks for this blog. Was very useful for me.

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

    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 May 20 2009, One company which self-styled “Wanker trading company” are applying to register “XXXX” as internet brand and domain names as below:

    xxxx.cn / .com.cn / .net.cn / org.cn / .hk / .tw / .com.hk / .com.tw / .asia

    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company.
    If your company and this”Wanker trading company” as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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 “Wanker trading company”.Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question.

    Best Regards,

    Eric

    Senior Consultant

    —————————————————————————————-
    Tel： 0086-21-37529318
    Fax： 0086-21-37529316

    Mail: eric.chen@fwo-cdnr.org.cn

    Address: Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

38. Hi
    i got the exact same email, it seems like they copy and paste the email to everyone ..lol…it is 101% scam !!
    ignore them !

    =========================================
    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application. One company which called ‘xxx Corp’ are applying to register .. May 25, 2009. After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us as soon as possible.
    In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 7 days. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by xxxx Corp.

    Best Regards,

    Jeff Xu
    Auditing Department
    Phone:+86-21-3752 9318
    Fax:+86-21-3752 9316
    http://www.fw-publicdomain.org.cn
    Address：Room515, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District, Shanghai, China

39. I received the exact same email.

    From: Henry Wang [mailto:henry.wang@fwo-cdnr.net.cn]
    Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:41 AM
    To: Umaidi
    Subject: Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights Dispute in China

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

    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 May 27th, 2009, One company which self-styled “KU Eastern Trading Inc.” are applying to register “XYZXYZ” as internet brand and CN domain names as below :

    XYZXYZ.asia
    XYZXYZ.com.cn
    XYZXYZ.com.hk
    XYZXYZ.com.tw
    XYZXYZ.hk
    XYZXYZ.in
    XYZXYZ.net.cn
    XYZXYZ.org.cn
    XYZXYZ.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”KU Eastern Trading Inc”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    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”KU Eastern Trading Inc.”
    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    ——————————————————————————–

    Henry Wang
    Senior Consultant
    ( Tel: +0086-21-37529318 ( Fax: +0086-21-37529316

    Email:henry.wang@fwo-cdnr.net.cn

    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

40. WOW – this is the one I got todayand I must say I thought it was real. We have a registered trademark and domain so I put the wind up them a bit with the threat of legal action for breach of trademark. Bet I don’t hear back!

    ——————————————————————————–
    From: kaeley.tang [mailto:kaeley.tang@hknsc.org]
    Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 3:23 PM
    To: info
    Subject: Your Domain name (wrinklesdayspa)’ Register notice

    Dear CEO/Manager,

    We are a domain name registration center in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On May. 28,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword “wrinklesdayspa” and register it as their internet keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, and in order to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we inform you and would like to know your ideas, if you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration, If you don’t agree the third company to register, please inform me. looking forward to your reply. thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

    Kind Regards,

    Kaeley tang

    2009-05-29

    ——————————————————————————–

    Tel: +852-31757931-8003

    Fax: +852-31757932

    Email: kaeley.tang@hknsc.org
    website: http://www.hknsc.hk

41. I got the same letter as someone did last month with the exact same text.

    Dear Manager,

    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 2009-6-16,we received an application formally,one person named “Pete Alldis” wanted to applied for the Internet brand “dfsxradio” and some domain names through our body.

    During our preliminary investigation,we found that these domain names’ keyword and internet brand is related with your trademark.I wonder whether you consigned “Pete Alldis” to register these domain names through us or not?Or is “Pete Alldis” 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.

    In addition,I must state that we have time limited for one person or one company’s registration.It is just 15 days.If your company files doesn’t resent within the time limited.We will unconditionally authorized the application of ” Pete Alldis”.

    Thank you for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    Doris Jan

    Mail:doris@worldwidesolution.org

    Web:www.worldwidesolution.org

42. we got the same mail like doris, names were exchanged:

    “Raymond Marcus”

    the mail was sent by

    Johnson LAU

    Registration Commissioner

    Mail:johnson@worldwidesolution.org
    Web: http://www.worldwidesolution.org

43. I received the same email from them. Now they even threaten us in case we don’t pay for their domain registration:

    “If you can not arrange the payment in time.We shall inform your dishonest action around world,let everyone know that your dishonest action.At least no one will doing the business in China with you.

    “We shall consider re-link those Domains to other webpage including the garbage pages.
    If your company can not transfer it in time we also has the rights to deal with those Domain names.
    “Unilateral holder can deal with register those Domain name for it’s own.

    “Declare all: The damages and dissensions due to the Domain name registration we will not bear any legal responsibility.

    Steven Han
    Senior Consultant
     Tel: +0086-021-37529318  Fax: +0086-021-37529316

    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai
    ________________________________________

44. Another example:
    ====
    From: malcolm@sknetdata.com

    Dear Principal,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right protection in Asia.

    Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

    On June 25,2009, we received an application formally.
    One company named “Computersky Investment Corp” wanted to applied for the Internet Trademark “YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME ” and some domain names from our organization.

    During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword and internet trademark is identical with your trademark.

    Meanwhile, it is in the special time of financial crisis.
    Many companies are registering and protecting their own internet intellectual property right in various methods.These days we are dealing with this case,
    I wonder whether you consigned Computersky Investment Corp to register these domain names through us? If yes, we will complete the registration on these domain names.

    Or you do not even know this company what so ever? Currently, we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already.
    In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Best Regards,
    Malcolm

    Auditing and Registration Manager
    Tel: +852-9566 0496
    Fax: +852-3019 7872
    Email: Malcolm@sknetdata.com
    Malcolm@dnrcenter.hk
    Website: http://www.asiadm.hk.cn
    ====

45. And another version of the scam, sent to the same recipient:
    ====
    From: Aaron@eworld.hk.cn

    Dear CEO & Principal,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute 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 June 1, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named “LYP International co., Inc” wanted to applied for the domain names”YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.asia,etc.” and Internet trademark “YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME” through our body.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet trademark is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign LYP company to register these domain names and internet trademark, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with LYP company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet trademark.

    We haven’t finished the registration of LYP company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Best Regards,
    Aaron
    Auditing Department
    __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Tel: +852-2297-9279
    Fax: +852-2297-9209
    Email: Aaron@eworld.hk.cn
    Email: Aaron.Lee@eworld.hk
    Website: http://www.eworld.hk
    2009-06-01
    ====

46. Thanks for confirming my suspicions that the email I received recently was a scam.

47. Me too…. See below.
    Thanks,
    —

    Dear CEO,

    We are one of the leading internet solutions organizations in China, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 7, one company which self-styled ” KU Eastern Trading Inc ” were applying to register “123mc” as internet brand and following Asia/ China domain names:
    123mc.asia
    123mc.cn
    123mc.com.hk
    123mc.com.tw
    123mc.hk
    123mc.in
    123mc.net.cn
    123mc.org.cn
    123mc.tw
    After our initial checking, we found the internet brand and these domain names 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 automatically finish the registration for them and link to their website. 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 ” KU Eastern Trading Inc “.

    Best Regards,

    ——————————————————————————–

    Henry Wang
    Senior Consultant
    ( Tel: +0086-21-37529318 ( Fax: +0086-21-37529316
    Email:henry.wang@fwo-cdnr.org.cn
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

48. Another one:
    ====
    Dear Principal,

    We get your email address from the Internet . It is glad to write to you with keen hope to open a business relationship with you in the future.

    We are a professional internet consultant organization in HongKong, On the july.6, 2009, we received an application formally from our client. its name is Main Road Investment Company. They want to apply for the registration of the domain name and Internet keyword “YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME” from us

    After our initial examination, we found that the brand name and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it. We need to know the comment of your company because the domain names and Internet keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet. Now we have not finished the registration of them yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Have a nice working day !

    Best regards,
    max.wong

    HongKong Net Center
    Tel: +852-3072 3948
    Fax: +852-30723949
    Email: Max.Wong@hkito.net
    Max.Wong@hkito.com
    ====

49. Thanks for posting about this scam. I received a similar email today (see below) and thought it might be real. I briefly considered registering the .asia domain name but only through my preferred registrar.

    ====

    Dear CEO & Principal,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute 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 July 13, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named “LYP International co., Inc” wanted to applied for the domain names”YOURDOMAIN.asia,etc.” and Internet keyword “YOURDOMAIN” through our body.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign LYP company to register these domain names and internet keyword, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with LYP company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

    We haven’t finished the registration of LYP company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Best Regards,
    Aaron
    Auditing Director

    _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Tel: +852-2297-9279
    Fax: +852-2297-9209
    Email:Aaron@eworlddnr.com
    Website: http://www.eworld.hk
    2009-07-13

50. eworld.hk / eworlddnr.com / eworld.hk.cn are all used with the same HK phone number for this scam.

    A lookup of the domain registrant of eworlddnr.com finds:

    ====
    Domain Name: EWORLDDNR.COM
    Registrar: TODAYNIC.COM, INC.
    Whois Server: whois.todaynic.com
    Referral URL: http://www.NOW.CN
    Name Server: NS3.01ISP.COM
    Name Server: NS4.01ISP.NET
    Status: clientTransferProhibited
    Updated Date: 08-jul-2009
    Creation Date: 08-jul-2009
    Expiration Date: 08-jul-2010

    Registrant:
    Name: LiQing
    Address: HK
    City: Hk
    Province/state: HK
    Country: CN
    Postal Code: 519000

    Administrative Contact:
    Name: LiQing
    Organization: LiQing
    Address: HK
    City: Hk
    Province/state: HK
    Country: CN
    Postal Code: 519000
    Phone: +86.8338669799
    Fax: +86.8338669799
    Email: 1domain@163.com
    ====

    This shows that
    1) the domain was registered with an incomplete postal address.
    2) the registrant is unaware that Hong Kong doesn’t use post codes. Mainland China uses six digit codes such as 519000 (the city of Zhuhai in Guangdong province), but Hong Kong does not.
    3) The domain was only registered one week ago.
    4) the listed phone number is a Chinese number, not a Hong Kong number.

    These scammers are not based in Hong Kong as they are trying to make you believe, but in mainland China. That’s where their website is hosted too.