Comments on: Beware of Chinese Domain Names Fraud http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/ SinoHosting.net Blog: China Hosting News, Web Hosting Promotions and more Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amy http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-21392 Amy Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:09:39 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-21392 Hello all, I was forwarded the following email (it was sent to human resources): Dear Manager We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization, mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On March. 24th, 2010, we formally received an application from KangShen Technology Limited, they applied to register the internet brand ( ourcompanyname ) and some in China and Asia's domain name. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is fully identical with your trademark. Therefore, we need to confirm with you, whether you consigned KangShen Technology Limited to register these domain names with us or not? Or, is KangShen Technology Limited your business partner or distributor? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already suspended this company's application temporarily due to the seriousness of this isuue. In order to avoid the vicious domain name grabbing, please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me via email as soon as possible. Thank you for your support to our work! Best Regards! Anne Ling Registration Department Manager Hong Kong NewName Net Service Limited Tel:+852-3069 6940 Fax:+852-3071 7730 Email:anne@trademarkdns.com Internet:www.trademarkdns.com So the scam is alive and well, with a new name. Wanted to share. Hello all,
I was forwarded the following email (it was sent to human resources):

Dear Manager
We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization, mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection.
On March. 24th, 2010, we formally received an application from KangShen Technology Limited, they applied to register the internet brand ( ourcompanyname ) and some in China and Asia’s domain name.

During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword is fully identical with your trademark. Therefore, we need to confirm with you, whether you
consigned KangShen Technology Limited to register these domain names with us or not? Or, is KangShen Technology Limited your business partner or distributor?
If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names.

Currently, we have already suspended this company’s application temporarily due to the seriousness of this isuue. In order to avoid the vicious domain name grabbing,
please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me via email as soon as possible. Thank you for your support to our work!

Best Regards!
Anne Ling

Registration Department Manager

Hong Kong NewName Net Service Limited

Tel:+852-3069 6940

Fax:+852-3071 7730

Email:anne@trademarkdns.com

Internet:www.trademarkdns.com

So the scam is alive and well, with a new name. Wanted to share.

]]> By: AA http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-20566 AA Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:38:28 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-20566 Im an actual US trademark attorney and my clents are always getting these scam emails....I have been getting annoyed so decided to set up a gmail account (never email them from your real emails)....and responded (without listing the trademark or domain they initially sent the notice about) saying that I was interested...I keep going back and forth with this f*** telling him yes I will give him thousands and thousands of dollars and then changing my mind again and again...good fun! ...he is waiting on a $4,800 check ....its in the mail...ha, ha....i guess ill have to resend it... Im an actual US trademark attorney and my clents are always getting these scam emails….I have been getting annoyed so decided to set up a gmail account (never email them from your real emails)….and responded (without listing the trademark or domain they initially sent the notice about) saying that I was interested…I keep going back and forth with this f*** telling him yes I will give him thousands and thousands of dollars and then changing my mind again and again…good fun! …he is waiting on a $4,800 check ….its in the mail…ha, ha….i guess ill have to resend it…

]]> By: Roy http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-18535 Roy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:48:27 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-18535 I cant believe this scam is still going after so long, I got this one this morning, Name changed of my domain of course. Dear CFO / COO, We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization based in HongKong, we have an important issue to confirm with you. 1. On Jan.31, 2010, one company named Oitan Investment Co. applied for the Brand Keywords "xwycompany" and the following Domain Names with our organization. xwycompany.asia xwycompany.cn xwycompany.com.cn xwycompany.com.hk xwycompany.com.tw xwycompany.hk xwycompany.net.cn xwycompany.org.cn xwycompany.tw 2. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these Domain Names' keyword is identical with your Trade Mark, this is why we inform you. 3. I wonder whether did you consigned Oitan Investment Co. to register these Domain Names with us? Or is Oitan Investment Co. 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. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Pls let the relevant principal make a confirmation with me ASAP. Thanks & Regards, Angel Lei T: +852-6517-0438 F: +852-3069-6940 M: angel@bestweb-hk.com W: www.bestweb-hk.com Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. I cant believe this scam is still going after so long, I got this one this morning, Name changed of my domain of course.

Dear CFO / COO,

We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization based in HongKong, we have an important issue to confirm with you.

1. On Jan.31, 2010, one company named Oitan Investment Co. applied for the Brand Keywords “xwycompany” and the following Domain Names with our organization.

xwycompany.asia
xwycompany.cn
xwycompany.com.cn
xwycompany.com.hk
xwycompany.com.tw
xwycompany.hk
xwycompany.net.cn
xwycompany.org.cn
xwycompany.tw

2. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these Domain Names’ keyword is identical with your Trade Mark, this is why we inform you.

3. I wonder whether did you consigned Oitan Investment Co. to register these Domain Names with us? Or is Oitan Investment Co. 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.

Currently, we have already postponed this company’s application temporarily. Pls let the relevant principal make a confirmation with me ASAP.

Thanks & Regards,

Angel Lei

T: +852-6517-0438
F: +852-3069-6940
M: angel@bestweb-hk.com
W: http://www.bestweb-hk.com

Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you.

]]> By: Jimmy Kellar http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-18138 Jimmy Kellar Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:57:21 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-18138 Your blog put my worries to rest, thanks. Recieved the following from "Daisy" ... Dear Principal, We are a professional organization mainly engaged in Internet intellectual property management in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.On January,24, 2010, we received an application formally, One company who called Cumulative Holdings Ltd. are applying for following: The Internet trademark: multi-clean Domain names: multi-clean.asia multi-clean.com.cn with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Cumulative Holdings Ltd. to register these domain names with us? Or is Cumulative Holdings Ltd. your business partner or distributor in Asia? We haven’t finished the registration of Cumulative Holdings Ltd. 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, Daisy Sponsoring Registrar: SKNETDNR Tel: +852-65171987 Fax: +852-30696940 Email: Daisy@sknetservice.com Website: www.skdnr.org Your blog put my worries to rest, thanks. Recieved the following from “Daisy” …

Dear Principal,

We are a professional organization mainly engaged in Internet intellectual property management in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.On January,24, 2010, we received an application formally, One company who called Cumulative Holdings Ltd. are applying for following:
The Internet trademark:
multi-clean
Domain names:
multi-clean.asia
multi-clean.com.cn
with our organization.
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Cumulative Holdings Ltd. to register these domain names with us? Or is Cumulative Holdings Ltd. your business partner or distributor in Asia?
We haven’t finished the registration of Cumulative Holdings Ltd. 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,
Daisy

Sponsoring Registrar:
SKNETDNR
Tel: +852-65171987
Fax: +852-30696940
Email: Daisy@sknetservice.com
Website: http://www.skdnr.org

]]> By: Aaron http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-17882 Aaron Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:25:41 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-17882 Another one. Has anyone called the numbers in the email to talk to someone? I get a kick out of responding to these emails and trying to figure out what they want. 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. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company. On January, 19, 2010, we received an application formally. One company named "Ilstone company."wanted to applied for the Internet brand keyword and some domain names from our organization. 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 Ilstone 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 Ilstone company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword. We haven't finished the registration of Ilstone. 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, Tom.Wang Sponsoring Registrar: SKNETDNR Tel: 00852-65171987 Fax: 00852-30696940 Email: Tom@sknetservice.com Website: www.skdnr.org Another one. Has anyone called the numbers in the email to talk to someone? I get a kick out of responding to these emails and trying to figure out what they want.

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

On January, 19, 2010, we received an application formally. One company named “Ilstone company.”wanted to applied for the Internet brand keyword and some domain names from our organization.

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 Ilstone 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 Ilstone company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

We haven’t finished the registration of Ilstone. 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,
Tom.Wang

Sponsoring Registrar:
SKNETDNR
Tel: 00852-65171987
Fax: 00852-30696940
Email: Tom@sknetservice.com
Website: http://www.skdnr.org

]]> By: Hal http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-17792 Hal Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:13:35 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-17792 Thanks for the updates, it's good to know people are still searching for them when they get these scam emails. I am going to send a copy to the scammers with a link to this blog so they know we are all talking about their scam. They are scum and I wish I knew for sure where they were so I could report them. I am sure the Chinese government would be interested to know what they are doing. :-) Thanks for the updates, it’s good to know people are still searching for them when they get these scam emails. I am going to send a copy to the scammers with a link to this blog so they know we are all talking about their scam. They are scum and I wish I knew for sure where they were so I could report them. I am sure the Chinese government would be interested to know what they are doing. :-)

]]> By: Alex M http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-17646 Alex M Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:13:45 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-17646 I just received this! Thanks to this site I can see it's 'Cary Feng' from 'dnrcenter' still keeping this crap up. I wish people would et a real job! Dear President/CEO, Hello!Sorry to trouble you! We are a domain name registration service company in HongKong, which mainly deal with international company's domain name registration and disputing in Asia.On the Jan 13, 2010, we received an application formally from Jinshen Investment Co., Ltd,who applied for the Internet trademark: "my web-site" and some domain names relevant to this trademark from our organization. According to our procedures and in order to protect your intellectual property rights, we need to send this email to the original company for confirming the actual relationship with this company.If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other motivation to register these domain names and probably want to do some cybersquatting. Now we have postponed this issue and have not proceeded their registration,In order not to confuse registering these domain names,Please contact us Asap. PS:If you are not in charge of this matter,please transfer this email to appropriate dept. Best Regards, Cary.feng Web: www.asiadm.org Tel: 00852-95660496 Fax: 00852-30197872 mail:cary@cnsknet.cn I just received this! Thanks to this site I can see it’s ‘Cary Feng’ from ‘dnrcenter’ still keeping this crap up. I wish people would et a real job!

Dear President/CEO,

Hello!Sorry to trouble you!
We are a domain name registration service company in HongKong, which mainly deal with international company’s domain name registration and disputing in Asia.On the Jan 13, 2010, we received an application formally from Jinshen Investment Co., Ltd,who applied for the Internet trademark: “my web-site” and some domain names relevant to this trademark from our organization.

According to our procedures and in order to protect your intellectual property rights, we need to send this email to the original company for confirming the actual relationship with this company.If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other motivation to register these domain names and probably want to do some cybersquatting. Now we have postponed this issue and have not proceeded their registration,In order not to confuse registering these domain names,Please contact us Asap.

PS:If you are not in charge of this matter,please transfer this email to appropriate dept.
Best Regards,

Cary.feng
Web: http://www.asiadm.org
Tel: 00852-95660496
Fax: 00852-30197872
mail:cary@cnsknet.cn

]]> By: Emily B http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-17523 Emily B Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:35:46 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-17523 Great job on blogging about this type of internet fraud. I received a similar email regarding my domains, so I did a search for "www.sk-dns.org scam" and this post came up. Great job on blogging about this type of internet fraud. I received a similar email regarding my domains, so I did a search for “www.sk-dns.org scam” and this post came up.

]]> By: m7o http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-16568 m7o Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:41:34 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-16568 here is another one, and thanks alot for the blog: andy.wang@chinadns-tic.org.cn here is another one, and thanks alot for the blog:
andy.wang@chinadns-tic.org.cn

]]> By: Ervin http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/comment-page-4/#comment-16504 Ervin Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:07:41 +0000 http://blog.sinohosting.net/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud/#comment-16504 I've received similar email...... Dear CFO / COO, We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization based in HongKong, we have an important issue to confirm with you. 1. On Dec. 15, 2009, one company named Tzpsk Investment Co. applied for the Brand Keywords " Sessions" and the following Domain Names with our organization. sessions.hk sessions.com.hk sessions.kr sessions.com.tw 2. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these Domain Names' keyword is identical with your Trade Mark, this is why we inform you. 3. I wonder whether did you consigned Tzpsk Investment Co. to register these Domain Names with us? Or is Tzpsk Investment Co. 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. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Pls let the relevant principal make a confirmation with me ASAP. Thanks & Regards, Jake Zhang T: +852-6517-0438 F: +852-3069-6940 M: Jake@bestweb-hk.com W: www.bestweb-hk.com I’ve received similar email……

Dear CFO / COO,

We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization based in HongKong, we have an important issue to confirm with you.

1. On Dec. 15, 2009, one company named Tzpsk Investment Co. applied for the Brand Keywords ” Sessions” and the following Domain Names with our organization.

sessions.hk
sessions.com.hk
sessions.kr
sessions.com.tw

2. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these Domain Names’ keyword is identical with your Trade Mark, this is why we inform you.

3. I wonder whether did you consigned Tzpsk Investment Co. to register these Domain Names with us? Or is Tzpsk Investment Co. 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.

Currently, we have already postponed this company’s application temporarily. Pls let the relevant principal make a confirmation with me ASAP.

Thanks & Regards,

Jake Zhang

T: +852-6517-0438
F: +852-3069-6940
M: Jake@bestweb-hk.com
W: http://www.bestweb-hk.com

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