The Asian domain-name extortion scam
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The Asian domain-name extortion scam
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Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#2I got one of these pretty recently. Like all cold calls that feel out of the blue, I googled up an extract of it and tossed in the trash after realizing that it was a (fairly well-worded) scam.
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#3If it was a courtesy email it would of been written in Engrish.
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#4I got one of these pretty recently. Like all cold calls that feel out of the blue, I googled up an extract of it and tossed in the trash after realizing that it was a (fairly well-worded) scam.
Ditto.
They were actually pretty persistent too.
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#5At Scribd we get about one of these per day now. Almost everyone has fallen for it once. As scam emails go, it is very clever, and routinely fools tech-savvy people who would never go for a 419 scam. Good of Marco to point it out.
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#6I get these on behalf of my clients all the time. Don't know of anyone who's fallen for it - if clients get it, they tend to ask me first before dealing with it.
It's the internet. It's always a scam. (TM)
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#7Is this a scam or do you actually get the domain names? If you get what they are selling you, then it's just unsolicited advertising, which is not really a scam.
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#8Is this a scam or do you actually get the domain names? If you get what they are selling you, then it's just unsolicited advertising, which is not really a scam.
The fact that they are claiming that a fictitious someone else is trying to buy the names in order to convince you to act quickly is what makes it a scam.
Re: The Asian domain-name extortion scam
#9My co-founder got one of these emails about 12 months ago. Even the opening email sounds pretty scammy, and quick googling shows they send out loads of these, so I shot it down. It must be worth their time if they're still doing it years later.
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#10These scams are partly enabled by the fact that the domain system has so many suffixes. It was predictable. One solution is to remove the suffixes. Yes there'd be pain migrating/collapsing to that but there is clearly pain now when we don't.