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The website cnygdomain.cn is fraudulent. Therefore, website or domain name owners are asked to be aware of fraudulent Chinese website or domain name registration emails like the one below that came from the fake website "www.cnygdomain.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.
From: "Mike Zhang" <mike.zhang@cnygdomain.cn>Subject: "nolarae"Date: 2 January 2018 11:51:13 GMTTo: <vwest@dircon.co.uk>Reply-To: <mike.zhang@cnygdomain.cn>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 January 2, 2018. They want to register " nolarae " as their Internet Keyword and " nolarae .cn "、" nolarae .com.cn " 、" nolarae .net.cn "、" nolarae .org.cn " 、" nolarae .asia " domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " nolarae " 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 & Operations ManagerCn YG Domain (Head Office) | 8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, Shanghai 201105, ChinaTel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823Web: www(dot)cnygdomain(dot)cn
From: "Mike Zhang" <mike.zhang@cnygdomain.cn>
Subject: "nolarae"
Date: 2 January 2018 11:51:13 GMT
To: <vwest@dircon.co.uk>
Reply-To: <mike.zhang@cnygdomain.cn>
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 January 2, 2018. They want to register " nolarae " as their Internet Keyword and " nolarae .cn "、" nolarae .com.cn " 、" nolarae .net.cn "、" nolarae .org.cn " 、" nolarae .asia " domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " nolarae " 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 & Operations Manager
Cn YG Domain (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)cnygdomain(dot)cn
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This time Mike has an Accomplice who says they are going to register my name in China and list all possible iterations of the domain. I refused to grant approval, so they offer to register all for me to protect me at a heft 158.00 a year.
Just got one from "mike_zhang@cnygdomainltd.org.cn", a slight different address to the ones listed above.
Attached 2 emails related to this, 1 on 23rd May 2019 another on 24th May 2019:- - -On 2019-05-23 15:57, Mike Zhang wrote: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 May 20, 2019. They want to register "? " as their Internet Keyword and "? .cn "、"? .com.cn " 、"? .net.cn "、"? .org.cn " 、"? .asia "domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find "? " 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 RegardsMike Zhang Service ManagerCn YG Domain (Head Office)8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, ShanghaI 201105, ChinaTel: 86-2161918696 Fax: 86-2161918697 Mob: 86-1582177 1823Web: www(dot)cnygdomain(dot)cnOn 2019-05-24 12:47, chen.zhifeng@vip.163.com wrote:Dear Sirs,We are Hua HaI Ltd based in chinese office, our company has submitted the "? " as CN/ASIA(?.asia,?.cn,?.com.cn,?.net.cn,?.org.cn domain name and Internet Keyword "? ", we are waiting for Mr. Mike's approval. We think these names are very important for our business in China and Asia market, so we have to register this name, and we believe that we can successfully register this name. Even though Mr. Mike advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name, no one can stop our registration.Best regardsChen ZhiFengHua HaI Ltd
They are using this email address: info@cnygdomain-ltd.cn
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