We recently received the following email regarding our corporate domain name:
From: leo.guo
Date: 2008/3/23
Subject: (omitted) domain name
To: info
Dear (omitted domain name)
We are Beijing Inveis Network Information Technology Co.,Ltd , which is the domain name
register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is called
Yunfeitongda International Trade Company are applying to register " (omitted) " as their domain
name and Internet keyword on Mar 23th 2008. Because this involved your company name or
trade marks so we inform you in no time. If you considered these domain names and
internet keywords are important to you and there was necessary to protect them by
registering them first, contact us soon.
Kind Regards,
Leo Guo
Tel: +86-10-82476192-605
Fax: +86-10-62477798
Email: leo.guo@inveis.com
Beijing Inveis Network Information Technology Co.,Ltd
www.inveis.com
Aside from the poor grammar, this would seem somewhat legitimate. There is an actual website that gives the appearance of being a respectable overseas registrar. It also seems that it would be fairly harmless to respond to the email stating the domain is taken and there is no interest in selling it.
A quick who-is search on inveis.com shows a creation date of 3/20/2008. The email just got a little more than fishy. Googling the company name came up with nothing. Hmm, what are they trying to pull?
A search on their phone number is the only thing that provided any results. http://louminatti.blogspot.com/2008/01/china-scam.html. Hah, same email, only the names have been changed.
Apparantly, they will register your domain under .cn and try to sell it back to you if you respond with any concerns over your domain name. I guess this is what happens when you get tired of writing bots that farm WoW gold for you to sell on eBay.
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