Is this some kind of scam?
-
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
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
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.”
-
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!)
-
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!)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I see too many Brits and Americans commit basic grammar errors every day.
I would make fun of them as well. The minute you put "professional" in front of your email, all bets are off :)
¡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
-
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.”
The second date was synchronized using Japanese technique.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
-
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
-
You must be joking. That's precisely why we left - to get away from the likes of U! :laugh:
Good one. :laugh:
BDF People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. -- Moliere
-
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!)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
2. I see too many Brits and Americans commit basic grammar errors every day.
What's a "Brit"? Two-syllable words too big for us, are they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
-
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.”
I especially liked definition #2! :laugh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
-
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
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkIn a previous job we were hit by a similar call/email - I asked for details of the company supposedly trying to register our company's name on .net, .biz etc but they wouldn't tell me, claiming that it was confidential. We registered the name with a different registrar for about 10% of the price they were quoting - I wanted to tell them to go to hell, but my boss (non technical) was worried that we would lose business and insisted we got the domain names.
==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================
-
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
2. I see too many Brits and Americans commit basic grammar errors every day.
What's a "Brit"? Two-syllable words too big for us, are they?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
What's a "Brit"?
Standard term, can be found in pretty much any dictionary.
Mark Wallace wrote:
Two-syllable words too big for us, are they?
I don't see what's wrong with the usage. Besides, in my country, British people are called Britishers.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
-
Mark Wallace wrote:
What's a "Brit"?
Standard term, can be found in pretty much any dictionary.
Mark Wallace wrote:
Two-syllable words too big for us, are they?
I don't see what's wrong with the usage. Besides, in my country, British people are called Britishers.
Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Standard term, can be found in pretty much any dictionary.
Google define:brit[^] So, with the meaning you intend, it's found in one amateur American dictionary, and nowhere else.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
in my country, British people are called Britishers.
Both "Britishers" and "Britons" are real words, at least, so you Inds use a real word -- but the Ams can't even manage that much.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!