I got this in my inbox yesterday.
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 September 7, 2009, we received an application formally.
One company named “CUBAC TRADE LTD” wanted to applied for the internet keyword “gamesniped ” and some domain names 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 keywordis identical with your company’s.
So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign CUBAC TRADE LTD 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 CUBAC TRADE LTD, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet 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 cororate 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,
Ben Tsang
Auditing Department_____________
Tel: 00852-81359178
Fax: 00852-81359278
Email: Ben@eworlddnr.hk Ben@eworld.hk
Website: http://www.eworld.hk
Sounded just legit enough that I decided to double check instead of just discarding as spam. Sure enough, its a quasi scam.
Apparently, the company (under many guises and names) esentially tries to get you to register .cn and other domain extensions of your primary domain name through them. The catch is they want somthing like $90 – $200 per domain – as opposed to the $10 or so it would cost you to register it on your own.
I can only imagine how many people end up falling for this, although it`s not as bad as the fake renewal notices I get through my phiscial mail each year (I`ll post one next time I get one).