Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Website name owners, be aware of fraudulent Chinese domain name registration emails like the one below that came from the fake website "www.chinaregistry.org.cn". The fraudulent email messages should not be responded to, especially with personal or financial information. And, the instructions in the same fraudulent email messages should not be followed. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick website owners into paying them for a fraudulent service, which the scammers claim will be used to purchase their Chinese (.CN) domain names.
Subject: onlinethreatalerts CN domain and keywordDate: Tue 10/23/2017 11:17From: shawn@chinaregistry.org.cn(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On Oct 25, 2017, we received an application from Huikai Ltd requested "onlinethreatalerts" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (onlinethreatalerts.cn, onlinethreatalerts.com.cn, onlinethreatalerts.net.cn, onlinethreatalerts.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company is affiliated with this Chinese company or not?Best Regards,Shawn Zhang | Service & Operations ManagerChina Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, ChinaTel: +86-02164193517 | Fax: +86-02161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671Email: shawn@chinaregistry.org.cnWeb: www.chinaregistry.org.cnThis email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
Subject: onlinethreatalerts CN domain and keyword
Date: Tue 10/23/2017 11:17
From: shawn@chinaregistry.org.cn
(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On Oct 25, 2017, we received an application from Huikai Ltd requested "onlinethreatalerts" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (onlinethreatalerts.cn, onlinethreatalerts.com.cn, onlinethreatalerts.net.cn, onlinethreatalerts.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company is affiliated with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Shawn Zhang | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-02164193517 | Fax: +86-02161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: shawn@chinaregistry.org.cn
Web: www.chinaregistry.org.cn
This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
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I have received an identical email but the website is www.domainregistrychina.com.
Received the following email from "Frank Liu" today:-From: "Frank Liu" Sent: 9/30/21 12:39 AMTo: [my company email address]Subject: [my company's name](If you are NOT CEO, please kindly forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please ignore it. Thanks)Dear CEO,This email is from China domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. On September 30, 2021, we received an application from Hongxiang Ltd requested "[my company's name]" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names ([my company's name].cn, [my company's name].com.cn, [my company's name].net.cn, [my company's name].org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China? Best RegardsFrank Liu Service & Operations ManagerChina Registry (Head Office)
I received this email as below:"From: Jeff Liu Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2021 4:42 AMSubject: stalinfacade(If you are NOT CEO, please kindly forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please ignore it. Thanks)Dear CEO,This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On May 9, 2021, we received an application from HongweI Ltd requested "stalinfacade" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (stalinfacade.cn, stalinfacade.com.cn, stalinfacade.net.cn, stalinfacade.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China? Best RegardsJeff Liu Service & Operations ManagerChina Registry (Head Office) Tel: 86-02161918696Fax: 86-02161918697Mob: 86-138164286716012, XingdI Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, ShanghaI 201103, China*****************************************This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email."
We received the same message on November 25, 2020 from: Paul Liu Paul Liu Service & Operations ManagerChina Registry (Head Office)Tel: 86-02161918696Fax: 86-02161918697Mob: 86-138164286716012, XingdI Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, ShanghaI 201103, China*****************************************
I had just the same message today, as follows.Our domain was mentioned in the XXXXX (we just crossed out). From: Peter Liu [mailto:peter-chinanetsolution.net] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 11:15 PMTo: customerSubject: XXXXX(It's very urgent, therefore we kindly ask you to forward this email to your CEO. If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please ignore it. Thanks)Dear CEO,This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On January 28, 2021, we received an application from Hongsheng Ltd requested "XXXXX" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (XXXXX.cn, XXXXX.com.cn, XXXXX.net.cn, XXXXX.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your distributor in China? Best RegardsPeter Liu Service & Operations ManagerChina Registry (Head Office) Tel: 86-02161918696Fax: 86-02161918697Mob: 86-138164286716012, XingdI Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, ShanghaI 201103, China*****************************************This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
Funny how they all have Western first names. Received the same from Frank Liu. I won't take up the offer!
