Is this some kind of scam?
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I got a very strange email today: We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization in Asia, who mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Right now we have an important issue to confirm with you. On Sep.14, 2009, we formally received an application, one company named "Barres holdings Ltd" applied for the brand keyword "lesliesanford" and following domain names: lesliesanford.asia lesliesanford.cn lesliesanford.com.cn lesliesanford.com.hk lesliesanford.com.tw lesliesanford.hk lesliesanford.net.cn lesliesanford.org.cn lesliesanford.tw with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Barres holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Barres holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email as soon as possible. Any thoughts on this? I mean WTF??
To me it sounds like they've looked for .com addresses that have other tld's free, and are then spamming the .com owners to scare them into buying the other domains at an inflated price. I imagine you're not likely to be overly worried personally about someone else using the lesliesanford.hk domain, for example, whereas a big global corporation might care a lot more, so is likely to end up splashing out on these mostly useless domains
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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To me it sounds like they've looked for .com addresses that have other tld's free, and are then spamming the .com owners to scare them into buying the other domains at an inflated price. I imagine you're not likely to be overly worried personally about someone else using the lesliesanford.hk domain, for example, whereas a big global corporation might care a lot more, so is likely to end up splashing out on these mostly useless domains
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
benjymous wrote:
To me it sounds like they've looked for .com addresses that have other tld's free, and are then spamming the .com owners to scare them into buying the other domains at an inflated price.
So if I respond to the email, their reply will probably be to offer to sell me the domains listed for some high price in order to protect them?
benjymous wrote:
I imagine you're not likely to be overly worried personally about someone else using the lesliesanford.hk domain, for example, whereas a big global corporation might care a lot more, so is likely to end up splashing out on these mostly useless domains
Yeah, I mean, I'd rather not have someone using my name in their domain; I really can't see them benefiting that much. Also, I can't buy up every single domain name variation of lesliesanford. But perhaps I should buy the basic ones? .net, .org, etc?
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I got a very strange email today: We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization in Asia, who mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Right now we have an important issue to confirm with you. On Sep.14, 2009, we formally received an application, one company named "Barres holdings Ltd" applied for the brand keyword "lesliesanford" and following domain names: lesliesanford.asia lesliesanford.cn lesliesanford.com.cn lesliesanford.com.hk lesliesanford.com.tw lesliesanford.hk lesliesanford.net.cn lesliesanford.org.cn lesliesanford.tw with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Barres holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Barres holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email as soon as possible. Any thoughts on this? I mean WTF??
IMO, do not answer (call and/or emails)
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benjymous wrote:
To me it sounds like they've looked for .com addresses that have other tld's free, and are then spamming the .com owners to scare them into buying the other domains at an inflated price.
So if I respond to the email, their reply will probably be to offer to sell me the domains listed for some high price in order to protect them?
benjymous wrote:
I imagine you're not likely to be overly worried personally about someone else using the lesliesanford.hk domain, for example, whereas a big global corporation might care a lot more, so is likely to end up splashing out on these mostly useless domains
Yeah, I mean, I'd rather not have someone using my name in their domain; I really can't see them benefiting that much. Also, I can't buy up every single domain name variation of lesliesanford. But perhaps I should buy the basic ones? .net, .org, etc?
they are probably registering all "derived" TLD based on existing ones to coerce people into paying large amount of money in case those people want to register "chinese" domains.
This signature was proudly tested on animals.
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I got a very strange email today: We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization in Asia, who mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Right now we have an important issue to confirm with you. On Sep.14, 2009, we formally received an application, one company named "Barres holdings Ltd" applied for the brand keyword "lesliesanford" and following domain names: lesliesanford.asia lesliesanford.cn lesliesanford.com.cn lesliesanford.com.hk lesliesanford.com.tw lesliesanford.hk lesliesanford.net.cn lesliesanford.org.cn lesliesanford.tw with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Barres holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Barres holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email as soon as possible. Any thoughts on this? I mean WTF??
I wouldn't answer, unless I wanted to have some fun at their expense. Think 419Baiter. If I did, I would first set up a throw-away email (gMail, hotmail, whatever) and use it only for that. Then if I get bored, I can just stop playing, without filling my inbox with rubbish.
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I got a very strange email today: We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization in Asia, who mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Right now we have an important issue to confirm with you. On Sep.14, 2009, we formally received an application, one company named "Barres holdings Ltd" applied for the brand keyword "lesliesanford" and following domain names: lesliesanford.asia lesliesanford.cn lesliesanford.com.cn lesliesanford.com.hk lesliesanford.com.tw lesliesanford.hk lesliesanford.net.cn lesliesanford.org.cn lesliesanford.tw with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Barres holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Barres holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email as soon as possible. Any thoughts on this? I mean WTF??
The minute I read:
Leslie Sanford wrote:
We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization
would have prompted me to trash the damn thing. Aside from the incorrect grammar, which I would presume a professional organization would not have issues with, the rest is an oxymoron.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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The minute I read:
Leslie Sanford wrote:
We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization
would have prompted me to trash the damn thing. Aside from the incorrect grammar, which I would presume a professional organization would not have issues with, the rest is an oxymoron.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
All those long words give it versimilitude! :)
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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All those long words give it versimilitude! :)
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I got a very strange email today: We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization in Asia, who mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Right now we have an important issue to confirm with you. On Sep.14, 2009, we formally received an application, one company named "Barres holdings Ltd" applied for the brand keyword "lesliesanford" and following domain names: lesliesanford.asia lesliesanford.cn lesliesanford.com.cn lesliesanford.com.hk lesliesanford.com.tw lesliesanford.hk lesliesanford.net.cn lesliesanford.org.cn lesliesanford.tw with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Barres holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Barres holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email as soon as possible. Any thoughts on this? I mean WTF??
Got the same one a week or two ago. Got me going for a moment because, coincidentally, I've been spending time hammering down sites violating the DMCA and duplicating my content - sending out DMCA notices, etc. So the timing made it seem it was a response to an act of mine.
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Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
There is no IRONIC smiley! :^)
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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There is no IRONIC smiley! :^)
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
I know that you were using it ironically! However, the Western Colonists forgot to pack their irony when they departed these fair shores in the good ship YackiHickiDooLa Mayflower, so I thought I would provide them with a definition, that they could understand. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I know that you were using it ironically! However, the Western Colonists forgot to pack their irony when they departed these fair shores in the good ship YackiHickiDooLa Mayflower, so I thought I would provide them with a definition, that they could understand. :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
They also forgot to bring enough U's. Thus they have Color and Neighbor and Labor.
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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They also forgot to bring enough U's. Thus they have Color and Neighbor and Labor.
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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They also forgot to bring enough U's. Thus they have Color and Neighbor and Labor.
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
And somehow, their Calendar went out of synch by about two years. 1914 became 1916 and 1939 became 1941.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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It's just efficiency.
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It's just efficiency.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
It's just efficiency.
Good save!
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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And somehow, their Calendar went out of synch by about two years. 1914 became 1916 and 1939 became 1941.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
5!
------------------------------------ "Men may make bad decisions, immoral decisions or just plain wrong decisions, but at least they make decisions. Women on the other hand..." Patrick Kielty 2006
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I got a very strange email today: We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization in Asia, who mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Right now we have an important issue to confirm with you. On Sep.14, 2009, we formally received an application, one company named "Barres holdings Ltd" applied for the brand keyword "lesliesanford" and following domain names: lesliesanford.asia lesliesanford.cn lesliesanford.com.cn lesliesanford.com.hk lesliesanford.com.tw lesliesanford.hk lesliesanford.net.cn lesliesanford.org.cn lesliesanford.tw with our organization. During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether you consigned Barres holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Barres holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names. Currently, we have already postponed this company's application temporarily. Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email as soon as possible. Any thoughts on this? I mean WTF??
Hey Leslie, This is a known scam, and you guessed right as to their mode of operation. You know what'd be a nice way to reply to them? Something like : "Yeah, Barres Holdings are acting on my behalf. Please go ahead and work with them." That'd be nice :-)
Regards, Nish
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And somehow, their Calendar went out of synch by about two years. 1914 became 1916 and 1939 became 1941.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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The minute I read:
Leslie Sanford wrote:
We are a professional intellectual property right consultant organization
would have prompted me to trash the damn thing. Aside from the incorrect grammar, which I would presume a professional organization would not have issues with, the rest is an oxymoron.
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
1. The email is apparently from an Asian company. Go easy on the grammar. 2. I see too many Brits and Americans commit basic grammar errors every day.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
