Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Website or domain name owners are asked to be aware of fraudulent Chinese domain name registration email messages like the one below that came from the fake website: "www.domainregistryasia.net". 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 sending money, which the scammers claim will be used to purchase their Chinese (.CN) domain names.
Fri 01/09/2017 00:12From: "Jim Bing" jim.bing@domainregistryasia.netDear CEO,(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.We received an application from Hua An Ltd on August 28, 2017. They want to register " gamiss " as their Internet Keyword and " gamiss .cn "、" gamiss .com.cn " 、" gamiss .net.cn "、" gamiss .org.cn " 、" gamiss .asia " domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " gamiss " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?Best Regards,Jim | Service ManagerDomain Registry Asia (Head Office)8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, Shanghai 201105, ChinaTel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823Web: www(dot)domainregistryasia(dot)net
Fri 01/09/2017 00:12
From: "Jim Bing" jim.bing@domainregistryasia.net
Dear CEO,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
We received an application from Hua An Ltd on August 28, 2017. They want to register " gamiss " as their Internet Keyword and " gamiss .cn "、" gamiss .com.cn " 、" gamiss .net.cn "、" gamiss .org.cn " 、" gamiss .asia " domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " gamiss " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim | Service Manager
Domain Registry Asia (Head Office)
8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, Shanghai 201105, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823
Web: www(dot)domainregistryasia(dot)net
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Mee too.Same email from Mr Mike Zhang.In wich way they can take money just responding at this email?Tks
Same email from Mike Zhang
Hi, I got the same email from Mike Zhang today. Thanks for the heads up.Anonymous,United Kingdom
HeyGot the same email, 11/NOV/2021, from mike_zhang@domainregistryasia.cn ...Thanks for the heads up!Yours,Zs
Well Mike Zhang is still sending emails from : mike_zhang@domainregistryasia.cn
We also received an almost identical email, from Mike Zhang but this time from a .com address: www.domainregistryasia.com
Thank you for this information. Mike is a very busy man!
Here is another scam - Forwarded message - From: "Mike Zhang" Sent: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 20:06 Subject: "multiverse" Dear CEO, (It's very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks) We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China. We received an application from Hua Hai Ltd on December 23, 2019. They want to register " multiverse " as their Internet Keyword and " multiverse .cn "、" multiverse .com.cn " 、" multiverse .net.cn "、" multiverse .org.cn " domain names, they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find " multiverse " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not? Best Regards Mike Zhang Service Manager Domain Registry Asia (Head Office) No. 300, Xuanhua Road, Changning District, Shanghai200050, China Tel: 86-2161918696 Fax: 86-2161918697 Mob: 86-1582177 1823 Web: www(dot)domainregistryasia(dot)com
Very useful article. Thank you.
domainregistryasia.com is also a fake service, be aware!
We received a similar message today (USA co) from Mike as well. Was odd when I saw the website had (dot) vs the actual (.) in it. Thanks for keeping the internet safe!
