Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Website or domain name owners be aware of fraudulent Chinese website or domain name registration emails like the one below that came from the fake website "www.cnygdomain.com". 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.com>Subject: "nolarae"Date: 2 January 2018 11:51:13 GMTTo: <vwest@dircon.co.uk>Reply-To: <mike.zhang@cnygdomain.com>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.com>
Subject: "nolarae"
Date: 2 January 2018 11:51:13 GMT
To: <vwest@dircon.co.uk>
Reply-To: <mike.zhang@cnygdomain.com>
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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Received it earlier yesterday.Was surprised at first but became skeptical when they started selling me their services.Thank you for flagging it
We received similar mail. We asking to the registrar to close CNYGDOMAIN.COMThanksDomain Information Name: CNYGDOMAIN.COM Registry Domain ID: 2172871991_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Domain Status: Nameservers: NS1.ALIDNS.COM NS2.ALIDNS.COMDates Registry Expiration: 2020-10-11 06:02:21 UTC Created: 2017-10-11 06:02:21 UTC Registrar Information Name: Xin Net Technology Corporation IANA ID: 120 Abuse Contact Email: supervision@xinnet.com Abuse Contact Phone: tel: 86.1087127926
We received similar mail. Thank you for your report.
info@cnygdomain-china.org.cn is now being used by the scammers.
Received this email this week. Good thing, I searched for it first.
Good day,Received this thread this week from them, thanks for sharing information like thisRegards
I got it too! This site is doing great by posting these kind of alerts. Thanks guys.
"Dear CEO,Based on your company having no relationship with them, we have suggested they should choose another name to avoid this conflict but they insist on this name as CN/ASIA domain names (.asia, .cn, .com.cn, net.cn, org.cn) and internet keyword () on the internet. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company and register it to promote his company.According to the domain name registration principle: The domain names and internet keyword which applied based on the international principle are opened to companies as well as individuals. Any companies or individuals have rights to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered.Because your company haven't registered this name as CN/ASIA domains and internet keyword on the internet, anyone can obtain them by registration.However, in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner has priority to make this registration in our audit period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these CN/ASIA domain names (asia,.cn, com.cn, net.cn, org.cn) and internet keyword () to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send an application form with price list to you and help you register these within dispute period. Look forward to your kind reply!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.cnygdomain.com"Another scam.
I have just received the same email. Of course, I have ignored it.
See the scam below:From: mike_zhang@cnygdomain.org.cnDear 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 June 3, 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)cn
I got the following from them. Evidently a scam, an internet extortionist. I really do wonder where they are based, because if they are in China, I would have expected the superpower to have put a bullet through the heads of the b******s already."Sorry, this is the last email. We still do not know whether your company need to register the CN/ASIA domain name and Internet Keyword or not? Since your company have not registered this name as CN/ASIA domains (.asia, .cn, .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn) and internet keyword (nnnnnn) on the internet, anyone can obtain them by registration.However, in order to avoid this conflict, as the owner of the name or trademark, your company will get the priority to make this registration. If you think these domain names are useful for your company and want to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send an application form and the price list to you and help you register these CN/ASIA domain names and internet keyword within dispute period. If you give up, we will finish their registration soon, pls tell us quickly."
