Asian Domain name Scammers

Here’s another one, from whom we recently received one of these scam emails about domain names:

cnnet.hk

You asked about similar domain name scams and I received this email in July:

From: luby.hu [mailto:luby.hu @ anwins-china.com.cn]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:42 PM
To: xxxxxxx
Subject: XXXXXX Inc. Registration notice

Jul 25 2008
AquaStar Inc.
Domain name&Internet keyword

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are Beijing Anwins Network Service Co., Ltd which is the domain name register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “xxxxxxxx” as their domain name and Internet keyword on July 24, 2008.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.

Kind Regards,

Luby.hu

Tel: +86-10-62667430(ext.8010)
Fax +86-10-62968871
Email: Luby.hu @ anwins-china.com.cn
Beijing Anwins Network Service Co.,Ltd
Website: anwins.com

Yes - we too received the email from westnet.hk.cn
Glad your site posts these comments to prevent this type of scam.
Thanks from a local in Fife

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are Beijing ALG Network Information 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 “ vårt_företagsnamn ” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Oct 3, 2008.Since through the 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,

Dan Lau

Registration Comissioner

Tel/fax: +86-10-82797446

Email: dan.lau @alg-tech.com
Beijing ALG Network Information Technology Co., Ltd

Chooke now has a variant: chooke.cn - received one from them on Monday.

Also, not a week before, I received one from 87global.hk.

My co-worker who manages the Webmaster (received 87global) and Hostmaster (received Chooke) e-mail accounts has had me report them to IC3.gov.

Thanks for posting about this! I just received this email from chooke:

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Dear webcompanyname:

We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China. I have something need to confirm with you.

We have received an application formally, one company named “Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names(webcompanyname.asia, webcompanyname.hk etc.), and the Internet keyword (webcompanyname) on the internet Feb 06, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.

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

Kind Regards,

Hairry Zhu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email: Hairry.zhu @ chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website: chooke.com.cn

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hairry.zhu
2009-02-06
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Just received this email today! Glad I did a bit of research instead!

Dear ****:
We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
We have received an application formally,one company named “Tengfeng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names( *******.com.cn *****.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword (*****) on the internet Feb26, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Kind Regards,
Tingle.liu
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email:tingle.liu@ chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website:chooke.com.cn

Really glad I found your website comments = Here’s an email I received -

To whom it may concern 2009-3-15

We are a domain name registration service company in Asia,

Last week we received a formal application submited by Mr. John Zhou who wanted to use the keyword “*****-**********” to register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn /.com.cn /.net.cn/.hk/ .asia/ domain names.

After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration are same as your domain name and trademark. We aren’t sure whether you have any relation with him. Because these domain names would produce possible dispute, now we have hold down his registration, but if we do not get your company’s an reply in the next 5 working days, we will approve his application

In order to handle this issue better, Please contact us by Fax ,Telephone or Email as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely

Tina

Checking Department

Tel: 86 513 8532 2060
Fax: 86 513 8532 2065
Email:Tina @ ntwifinetwork.com
Website: ntwifinetwork.com

Mail No.:849260

We received exact same email, as above, only the domain name changed.

Tel: 86 513 8532 2060 Fax: 86 513 8532 2065
Email:margaret @ ntwifinetwork.com Website: ntwifinetwork.com

They are apparently having a field day with this.

I received a similar email from one of the same phone numbers above but with a different web address:

Dear Sir/Madam 2009-4-8
Last week we received a formal application submited by Yadu Investment Co.,Ltd. which wanted to use the keyword……..
Yours sincerely Sunny
Checking Department
Tel: 86 513 8532 2060
Fax: 86 513 8532 2065
Email:Sunny @ tech-wifi.com
Website: tech-wifi.com

Glad I found you - similar email received as Peter with same phone numbers but with different email address and web address. Dear Sir/Madam…… last week we received a formal application submited by Yadu Investment Co.,Ltd. Yours sincerely Tina Checking Department Tel: 86 513 8532 2060 Fax: 86 513 8532 2065 Email:Tina @ js-wifi.cn Website: js-wifi.cn Mail No.:1419819

I received an email from “SUNNY” as well. I’m so sad to see that he/she was demoted from being an “Attorney at law of Legal Department” (Quincy blog 2-16-09) to working in the “Checking Department”. (Before I found KenKai) I responded to SUNNY’S email and it came back undeliverable. Went to the website listed and got the general contact email address — emailed again and got the same negative response. I thought — well it is in China maybe they are having connection issues — so I faxed my response to Sunny yesterday. The fax was successful and I received another email response today from Sunny.

FIRST RECEIVED EMAIL FROM SUNNY WAS THE SATANDARD YADA-YADA-YADA:
Dear Sir/Madam: 2009-4-28
We are a domain name registration service company in Asia, Last week we received a formal application submited by Yadu Investment Co. Ltd………… Yours sincerely Sunny, Checking Department, Tel: 86 513 8532 2060 Fax: 86 513 8532 2065 Email :sunny @ ntwifinetwork.com Website: ntwifinetwork.com Mail No.:1219822

SECOND RECEIVED REQUEST FROM SUNNY:
Dear Mike,
Thanks for your fax. As far as we know, Yadu Investment Co.,Ltd want to apply for the following names and internet brand …….. You would know domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So Yadu Investment Co.,Ltd has right to register it. If you think his registration will confuse your clients and harm your profits, we can send an application document to you and help you protect these domains within our approving period. This is a better way to prevent domain name dispute. If you think his application will not affect your company, you can give up, we will finish his registration. Hope get your decision as soon as possible so that we can handle the next step. Best regards,
Your Sincerely Sunny

HOPE THIS HELPS WHOEVER READS IT. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE.
Thanks Mike, please excuse the editing of the emails to you, I have left in all the relevant parts. BM

I received this today:
Dear Manager: We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is …blah, blah……..A formal application here dated on May.6th,2009 from HANHONG Investment company requested ….blah, blah, blah…….. please let the someone who is responsible for this matter to contact us as soon as possible.Thank you! Best regards! Bray Wu IT Department Manager
Tel:+86-021-6296 2950 Fax:+86-021-6296 1557 web:ygregistry.cn

here is another one.ygregistry.cn

Recently received this email with comments. Have you heard of this potential scammer?
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Greg, it certainly has nothing to do with the subject of the post - Asian domain name scams - but I read the emails that you attached, but it simply appears to be someone trying to place an order with you - a chap by the name of Dave Bills? If he is trying to place an order with you, I can’t see where the scam comes into play? It may be a wind-up or a time-waster, but I would suggest that you request payment up front, that way you’ll know if he’s a timewaster or not - but I don’t understand how he can be scamming you if he is trying to place an order with you? I haven’t printed the emails as if he is a genuine customer, you’d be guilty of breaking data protection laws by posting your correspondance, in full, on here. BM

another one: www.ygregistry.cn this is the original e-mail:

Dear Manager: We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China. On August.3rd,2009, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name blah, blah, blah……… John Oversea marketing manager Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950 Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557 web: ygregistry.cn

Another one to add to the list…

Dear CEO,
We are the department which is in charge of registering Internet intellectual property of Asia. I have something need to confirm with you. On Augst 24, 2009,We have received an application formally, One company named “huaxia Investment (china) Co., Ltd” apply to register…… blah, blah, blah…… please transfer this email to appropriate dept. Thanks for your cooperation. Best Regards, Peter Gong HK CNBC IT CO., Limted Tel:+86-797-2108060 Web:hkcnbc.org.cn

We receved this:

Bello Jamal,

I am glad you can contact me in time.
The several questions below I should explain to you:
1.The China govertment let us inform the owner before finishing the registration. In fact, we do not want to do this.
2.If you have no relationship with Geitg Holdings , according to our working experience, there are 2 possibilities. Geitg holdings is a domain name investment company, they want to register these names before you and sell back to you to gain
profits; or It may be a commercial method, Geitg Holding consigned by your competitor to register, they are trying
to replicate your idea and let your customers feel confusion.
Because domain name takes open registration (this is international domain name registration principle), Geitg Holdings has right to register it. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to stop their application.
This is also the reason we informed you this issue. I think you must know some cases about the domain names grabbed by third party, and also frequently happens internationally, we also don’t hope that there will be some infringement on the interests of your company in the future.
In another word, I would like to know if you think their registration will confuse your clients and harm your honor and profits.
In order to deal with this issue better, please make a confirmation with me as soon as possible, so that we can have a have a further discussion. Waiting for you reply.
The following is the domain names and internet trademark which Geitg wants to register: blah blah blah…..
Best Regards, Eric Chen 发件人： Travel & Culture Services 发送时间： 2009-09-06 20:57:14
收件人： eric 抄送：主题： Re: Internet Copyright of travel-culture(To Principal).

Dear Eric,
We do not have any relation to this company. We are copyright owners of domain travel-culture.com and the Company name “Travel & Culture Services is registerred in Pakistan as Sole Proprietership and name registerred with registrar of companies Karachi. Jamal P.S. We do not require any other services from you for registerring our Domain.
Date sent:     Sun, 6 Sep 2009 20:14:52 +0800

From:          ”eric”
Send reply to: eric dnrcenter.hk
To:            ”info”
Subject:       Internet Copyright of travel-culture(To Principal).

Dear President&CEO,
 
We are an organization specified at dealing with domain name dispute and registration in Asia. We have something important on intellectual property right need to confirm with your company.
 
On September 5, 2009, we received an application formally, one company named “Geitg Holdings Ltd” applied for the brand keyword ” Blah blah, blah….. Best Regards! Eric Chen

Here is another company:

cnsknet.cn

But I am not getting what is the scam? They were telling me someone is registering other versions of my domain and wanting to trademark it? Isn’t it a good idea to get the other domains? Is there such a thing as an internet trademark?

It’s a scam because they are lying to you Julie - Nobody is trying to buy these domains and why would you need them anyway - if your website is already established and firing on the search engines and is well optimised, they will never overtake a .com with mickey-mouse asian domain names. See http://www.kenkai.com/seo-blog-article-192.htm for answer on the internet trademark. Have a great weekend, BM

Hello, here’s the details of one more…

From: John
Sub: notice protect internet trademark intellectual property safeguard
Blah, blah blah….. (same old tosh!)
John Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950 Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557 web: webregistry.org.cn

I received one from from Angela @ ygurl.cn Company: YIGUAN(CHINA)IT Co.,Ltd. Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950 Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557 web: ygurl.cn

A Chinese Investment firm want to buy domains with the name of a small town chess club in the U.S.?? Sure… Dumb spammer-scammers.

just wanted to leave you another one…
china-dnsnet.org

Hello, we got one in the inbox today - looks like ygurl.cn needs to be added to the list up top. Thanks for your help in exposing as many scammers as possible! Thanks Sam, the email you attached is identical to other sent above, ( and to one sent to another reader, Lorraine from dollshousestore.com), so I hope you don’t mind that I edited your post. Have a fine day. BM

Pleased I found this site.
I have just reveived one from “Angela” too. The only difference is it refers to the HUAXING Investment company rather than HAITONG in Freddie’s email. I will just ignore it.

I just got one of those, but I checked Google first and found this site, very useful ;P

I got this email today ( Sat. 28th,2009) it seems to follow the same routine as the others on this thread. It came from:
Andy Oversea marketing manager Company: YIGUAN(CHINA)IT Co.,Ltd Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950 Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
web: ygurl.cn

Well, they’re still going in 2010! Happy New Year to them - NOT.

I received emails from someone at skdmrc.org along the lines of many previous reports - beware!

Dear Steve Street,

Based on your company having no relationship with them, we have suggested they should choose another name to avoid this conflict but they persist with using this name as CN domain names (.cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn) and internet keyword on the internet. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company and register it to promote his company.
According to the domain name registration international principle: The domain names and internet keyword which applied based on the international principle are opened to companies as well as individuals. Any companies or individuals have rights to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Because your company haven’t registered this name as CN domains and internet keyword on the internet, anyone can obtain them by registration. However, in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner has priority to make this registration in our audit period.
If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these CN domain names (.cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us .

Kind regards

Stephen Liu

ygitltd.com

Another spam!!!!

I am so glad I found this website and all the example emails. The email I received this morning is exactly the same as some of the ones already posted. I searched for my company name for .cn and .hk.cn and they are already taken. Glad I am not going to go through with this. Thank you for your posts. It was from ygnetwork.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 in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.
On Mar 3,2010, we received an application formally. One company named “CHC company” wanted to applied for the Network Keyword “XXXXXXX ” and some domain names through our body.
Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that these domain names and Network Keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign CHC company to register these domain names and Network 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 CHC company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and Network Keyword.
I want to confirm that are you the corporate representative of this company? If you do, I will feedback some problems to you; if you do not, please send my words to your company’s corporate representative or lawyer. We need your answer of force adeffect. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
Eric
Auditing Department
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tel: 00852-81359178
Fax: 00852-81359278
Email: Eric @ ansl.hk
Website: ansl.hk

Hi all, thank you for your information, I have recently receive a similar email from Karl @ansl.hk:

From： Karl
Sent： 2010-03-12 09:11:26
Recipient： singapore
Cc：
Theme： About “memstar” Internet Domain Name Disputes—To Webmaster & CEO

Dear Manager,I’m sorry to disturb you so abrupt. 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 March 11. 2010, we received an application formally. One company named “Vicuve International Inc” wanted to applied for the network Keyword “memstar” and some domain names through our body. Now we are handling with the registration of find that the keyword of these domain names and network keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign Vicuve company to register these domain names and network 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 Vicuve company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and network Keyword.
I want to confirm that are you the corporate representative of this company? If you do, I will feedback some problems to you; if you do not, please send my words to your company’s coprorate representative. We need your answer of force adeffect. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Waiting for your prompt reply! Best Regards, Karl Auditing Department
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Hongkong Headquarter (: Tel: 00852-8135-9178 Ê: Fax: 00852-8135-9278 *: Email: Karl@ ansl.hk :: Web: .ansl.hk

Got the same email like Vivian from karl@ansl.hk. The email were like these below
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From: Karl [Karl@ ansl.hk]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 2:58 PM
To: enquiry
Subject: Re: About “tiongwoon” Internet URL—To Webmaster & CEO
Dear Principal,

I am sorry this is the last time I inform you. If no response from your company, No matter you consigned Vicuve company to register domain names or not, we will complete their registration.

Best Regards,

Karl
Auditing Department
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Hongkong Headquarter
: Tel: 00852-8135-9178
: Fax: 00852-8135-9278
: Email: Karl@ ansl.hk
: Web: ansl.hk
This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail including any enclosures. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly prohibited.
________________________________________
Karl

2010-03-29
________________________________________
From： Karl
Sent： 2010-03-24 11:38:10
Recipient： enquiry
Cc：
Theme： Re: About “tiongwoon” Internet URL—To Webmaster & CEO

Dear Principal,

I sent you an email on *** (HK time). Please confirm whether you have consigned “Vicuve International, Inc” to register some domain names and network keyword via our company. If you have consigned them to register, we will immediately complete their registration. If you did not consign them to register, please let me know.

Looking forward to your soon reply.

Best Regards,

Karl
Auditing Department
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2010-03-24
________________________________________
From： Karl
Sent： 2010-03-22 10:38:47
Recipient： enquiry
Cc：
Theme： About “tiongwoon” Internet URL—To Webmaster & CEO

Dear Principal,

I’m sorry to disturb you so abrupt. 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 March 19. 2010, we received an application formally. One company named “Vicuve International Inc” wanted to applied for the network Keyword “tiongwoon” and some domain names through our body.

Now we are handling with the registration of find that the keyword of these domain names and network keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign Vicuve company to register these domain names and network 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 Vicuve company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and network Keyword.

We haven’t finished the registration of Vicuve company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please give me a confirmation.

Looking forward your reply!

Best Regards,

Karl
Auditing Department
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2010-03-22

One more…
Dear Sir/Madam
I’m sorry to disturb you so abrupt. We are a domain name registration service company in Asia,
On 9th April. we received a formal application submitted by Mr. John Sun who wanted to use the keyword “xxxx” to register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn /.com.cn /.net.cn/.hk/.asia/ domain names.
After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration are same as your domain name and trademark. We aren’t sure whether you have any relation with him. Because these domain names would produce possible dispute, now we have hold down his registration, but if we do not get your company’s an reply in the next 5 working days, we will approve his application
As authorized anti-cybersquatting organization we hereby suspect Mr. John Sun is a domain investor. so we need you to attach importance to this issue.
In order to handle this issue better, Please contact us by Fax ,Telephone or Email as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely 　　　　　　　　2010-4-11
Margaret
Oversea Marketing Manager
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Room 1008,
International Building,
No.38 YueLong road,NanTong City
Tel:+86(513)85330968
Fax:+86(513)80260081
Email:Margaret @volcafe.asia
Website: volcafe.asia

I have received an email from Yiguan Limited in Shanghai claiming that a company has put an application forward to register our domain name with .cn.

I have drawn a blank with both Yiguan Limited and Hanshin, the company wishing to register the name

Love your website - I’m usually able to verify the scams here. I got one this morning that I suspect is another scam, but couldn’t find it on your site. Here it is:

From: scott [mailto:scott @webworld.hk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:49 AM
To: Subject: About”xxxxxxx”intellectual property rights ( TO CEO & Principal )
Importance: High

Dear CEO & Manager,

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 April 27,2010, we received an application formally.
One company named “Dfhy Holdings Ltd “wanted to applied for the Internet Keyword “XXXXXXX”and some domain names through our body.

These days we are dealing with it. After our initial investigation, we found that these domain names and Internet Keyword applied for registration are as same as your company’s name. We hope to get the confirmation of your company because that may affect to your intellectual property on internet. I wonder whether you consigned Dfhy company to register these domain names and Internet Keyword through us? If yes, we will complete the registration on these domain names and Internet Keyword. Or you do not even know this company what so ever? Now we haven’t finished the registration of Dfhy 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,
Scott

Auditing Department
Tel: 00852-37556670 ( Direct )
Fax: 00852-37556671
Email: scott @webworld.hk
Web: webworld.hk

john@ ygnetwork.com.cn este perrito me quiere estafar

Dear cristian :

The check time will be over soon, we have not receive your reply about the domain
name and internet trademark which is regarding to ” rimisp ” yet, hope you can reply your attitude to us within 2 workdays.
If we have not received your answer yet after checking. We will be unable to continue refusing the application
that International company submits, according to our procedure, they will obtain the registered rights of these domain names. John

¿Mi español es muy pobre, pero le hizo acaba de llamar este tipo un pequeño perro? Gracias para tomar tiempo de dejar su comentario - tiene un día fino. BM

From what I have read here this looks very similar and I’m glad I came across it. I’ll be passing it onto local authorities to investigate.

My Dad received this email and luckily he has not engaged with them in any way except to say no he will not give up his domain name. These scammers pick their targets well! They most likely know older less tech savvy people will take the bait.

Below are details of both emails:

ORIGINAL EMAIL

Subject: notice protect– internet trademark intellectual property safeguard
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:29:29 +0800
From: “John”
To:

Dear Manager:

We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.
On May.6th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” XXXXXXX ” as their Internet Keyword and ” XXXXXX .cn “、” XXXXXXX .com.cn ” 、” XXXXXXX .asia ” 、” XXXXXXX .hk “domain names etc..,It is China and ASIA and HongKong domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!

Best regards,

John
Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
web: ygnetwork.cn

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REPLY

Subject: notice protect– internet trademark intellectual property safeguard
Sender: John
Recipient: myDad @HisEmail.com
Date: Fri 7th May 17:29

Dear Manager:

Thanks for your prompt reply.We knew you have registered the domain name “XXXXXX.com ” and own the intellectual property, this is why we informed you.But now HAITONG Investment company wanted to apply for other cn/asia domain names and
Internet trademark Keyword you have not registered yet,like “www.XXXXXXX.cn, www.XXXXXXX. asia”. It’s china and asia domain name. You must know Domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So HAITONG Investment
company has right to register them. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application.So required by China government to inform
your company to protect your interest. But as the company whose trademarks relate to the applied domains,
you will get the priority to register these domain names.

Of course, each company has their own idea. If you don’t think their application will affect your company, you can give up,
we will finish their registration. HAITONG Investment company will become the legal owner of these domain names in the world.
You will be responsible for the loss caused by the matter yourself. But if you think these domain names are useful for your company,
we can send an application form and the price list to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only way
to prevent domain name grab. Pls let us know your decision soon, so that we can handle the next step.

Looking forward to hearing your reply.

Best regards!

John
Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
web:ygnetwork.cn

orientalnetworks.net
I received such an email and replied back once. Here is the (edited) exchange.
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From: Oriental Network [bruce @orientalnetworks.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:14 AM
To: Me
Subject: [Junk released by User action] Re: RE: mydomain dispute of domain name

Dear xxx,

Thank you for your reply.Now I confirm that Walter Hunter doesn’t belong to your company.But you must know domain name register takes openly,it is equal for everyone to register.We follow the basis”first come,first serve”so we have no right to prevent Walter Hunter’s application.Nowadays more and more cybersquatters online want to register quantities of domains,then they will take advantage of these domains to invest or occupy market,maybe they have other business purpose.Because it is related to your company’s name and trademarks so you have preferential right to register in order to prevent other guy from abusing your trademarks,this is why we informed your company.If you don’t think their application will affect your company,you can give up,we will finish their registration,Walter Hunter wants to apply the following Internet brand and domain names:
blah, blah….
If your company want to develop business in these countries and regions,we think these domain names are very important for your company! Of course,each company has their own idea.If you need to protect those domains and internet brand in view of the current trade links,we can send an application form and procedures to you and help you register these within dispute period.Pls let us know your decision soon,Because these days we will dealing with them.Thanks for your cooperation and waiting for you reply.

Best Regards,

Bruce Chan

Registration Commissioner
[cid:__0@ Foxmail.net]
Mail:bruce @orientalnetworks.net
Web:orientalnetworks.net
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发件人：Me
发送时间：2010-05-11 22:08:53
收件人：Oriental Network
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主题：RE: mydomain dispute of domain name

Dear Mr. Chan,
“mydomain” is our company identity and internet brand and Mr. Walter Hunter in not affiliated with us in any manner. Please do not authorize this particular URL registration. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Me

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From: Oriental Network [bruce @orientalnetworks.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5:45 AM
To: Jason Cohen
Subject: mydomain dispute of domain name
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 11 May,2010,we received an application formally, one person named “Walter Hunter” wanted to applied for the Internet brand “mydomain ” 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 “Walter Hunter” to register these domain names through us or not? Or is “Walter Hunter” 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 ” Walter Hunter”.
Thank you for your cooperate.
Best Regards,
Bruce Chan
Registration Commissioner
[cid:__0@ Foxmail.net]
Mail:bruce@ orientalnetworks.net
Web: orientalnetworks.net

I receive to this one:

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 in Asia.

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

On May18,2010, we received an application.

One company named “Wukph Holdings Ltd” wanted to apply for registering the
domain names related to ” XXXXX ” and Network Keyword through our
organization.

We are dealing with it. After our initial investigation, we found that
these domain names and Network Keyword applied for registration were as
same as your brand.

I am wondering whether you consigned Wukph Holdings Ltd to register these
domain names and Network Keyword through us.
If yes, we will complete the registration on these domain names and Network
Keyword. Or you do not even know this company what so ever?

I want to confirm that you are the corporate representative of this
company.
If you are, I will feedback some problems to you; if you are not, please
forward my letter to your company’s corporate representative or webmaster.

We need your definite answer. In order to deal with this issue better,
please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Tony Wu
Auditing Department
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Hongkong Headquarter:
(: Tel: +00852-8135-9178
Ê: Fax: +00852-8135-9278
Tony @ansl.hk
www.ansl.hk

Glad I did a search on Wukph Holdings Ltd and found the scam you mentioned in website registration. Glad to have found you.

Henry

I also received the Tony Wu email as well - same wording as above.
Hongkong Headquarter:
(: Tel: +00852-8135-9178
?: Fax: +00852-8135-9278
*: Email: Tony @ansl.hk
:: Web: ansl.hk

From: Roy [mailto:Roy @ansl.hk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:42 AM
To: masy
Subject: About “masy” Internet URL—To President & IT Manager
Importance: High

Dear General Manager,

I’m sorry to disturb you so abruptly.

We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global company’s domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right’s protection in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue need to confirm with your company.

On May 24, 2010, we received an application formally. One company named “PYAPE Global Holdings, Inc .” wanted to applied for the Network Keyword “masy” and some domain names through our body.

Now we are handling this registration, and we found that the keyword of these domain names and network keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign PYAPE Holdings to register these domain names and network 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 PYAPE Holdings, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and network keyword.

We haven’t finished the registration of PYAPE Holdings 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.

Waiting for your reply ASAP.

Best Regards,

Roy Wong
Auditing Director
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Hongkong Headquarter:

(:Tel: 00852-8135-9178

Ê: Fax: 00852-8135-9278

*: Email: Roy @ansl.hk

:: Web: ansl.hk
2010-05-25

Thanks a million for this website and the heads-up!!!

I just got one exactly like Paul Harding’s directly above. Word for word except for the target’s domain name.

Enterprising sons of bitches. I have a very small niche-market site. I smelled a rat.

I googled HAITONG and see that my anti-virus program flags them in red as possibly viral, a strong disincentive to investigate that avenue further.

Thanks again.

This is what I ‘ve just received yesterday….looks professional, however suspicious….please give me your advice on this…Thank you so much…

Ignore them Sion, they are simply trying to scam you into buying domain names that are completely worthless to you. BM

Hi Everyone here’s the scam I received today myself.
Thank goodness I checked them out too. Why do we as a human race tolerate China’s blatant attempts of rip offs worldwide. Surely there must be something we can do to stop China from stealing identities? This lot aren’t after your identity, Chanty, they want your money……….. BM
Dear Manager:

We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.
On June.16th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” business-spirit ” as their Internet Keyword and ” business-spirit .cn “、” business-spirit .com.cn ” 、” business-spirit .asia “domain names etc..,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!

Best regards,

John
Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
ygnetwork.cn

Hi

Thanks for this thread as we received a similar email today and you have confirmed to me that this is just a scam. The email to us read

Dear CEO /President,

We are a domain name registrar centre in Hong Kong which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally, we have an important issue to confirm with you.

1. On the July.19, 2010 we received a formal application from a company called “abutery International Holdings Ltd” who are applying to register “XXXXXX” as domain name and internet keyword.

2. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these Domain Names and the keyword is are as same as your company’s keyword and trademark, this is why we inform you.

3. I wonder whether did you consigned “abutery International Holdings Ltd” to register these Domain Names with us? Or is “abutery International Holdings Ltd” your business partner?

4. If you do not have any relationship with this applicant, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these Domain Names and Internet Keyword.

Now we have not finished the registration of “abutery International Holdings Ltd” yet, Pls let the relevant principal make a confirmation with me ASAP.

Thanks & Regards,

janly.jiang

sent from janly.jiang@ skdmrc.org