Watch out for those domain scammers!
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Kathie Thomas at soho-life.com
Last week one of my clients contacted me as they’d been approached from a company in China who was ‘concerned that a domain’ similar to my client’s was going to be registered by another business. As soon as she asked me about it I had a feeling that it was most likely either spam or a scam. Sure enough, once she sent me a copy of the email I was positive it was a scam, however I encouraged her to seek advice from a govt dept here in Australia just to be sure.
Today I received three of these same emails - each for a different domain I own - and all along the same lines. My suspicions have been more than confirmed and just to take it further I decided to do some searches of my own online.
Below are links to just three sites warning of this scam and there are many more too.
How scammers trick you out of your domain name (1)
How scammers trick you out of your domain name (2)
Net in China domain spam
Domain scammers list
If in doubt, always best to seek advice (as my client had sought to do) and doing a search on Google or your otherwise favourite search engine is a good thing to do. I usually copy and paste a key phrase from the email and place it into the search engine to see if anything comes up. Sure enough, it did!
Kathie Thomas has her finger on the pulse, and I am glad to have her as a friend and online mentor!
Keep this information in mind as you see unusual offers and emails on any topic. If it feels funny, check it out!
Dr. Sally Witt
www.drsallywitt.com
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