A new wave of domain name scam/spam

[andyreed]

For the past few weeks, our clients have received many email messages from people claiming to be foreign domain-name registrars warning you that someone is trying to register one of your domain name trademarks overseas (in China .cn; or Germany .de; or Europe .eu; or even the United States .us), and giving you the "opportunity" to contest it.

In another version, you're warned that a guy named "Karl Fischer" is trying to register our domain name(s). We've received an identical or similar scam several times this past week.

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[nobaloney]

Yes, definitely spam; we've seen some of it this month as well. One of our more sophisticated clients was almost caught up in it. If you don't publish a newsletter for your clients in which you point out issues like this to them, perhaps now's the time to start .

Jeff