Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Website or domain name owners be aware of fraudulent Chinese domain name registration email messages like the one below that came from the fake website "www.dshn-cloud.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.
Dear Mr / Ms,Thank you for reading this email. We are a domain registrar. Today we received a registration request from Lydia Chow International. They apply for registration of pncimports Brand Name and several pncimports domain names associated with your company name.Now we are processing this request, please let me know whether this company is affiliated with your company. If so, we will continue the next step of registration. If not, please give me a confirmation ASAP. Thanks for your time.Regards,Jerry ChanTel: 0086.5516349 1192Fax: 0086.5516349 1192Dingsheng Times Square No.299,Maanshan South Road,HefeIJerry Chan [ jc@dshn-cloud.cn ]
Dear Mr / Ms,
Thank you for reading this email. We are a domain registrar. Today we received a registration request from Lydia Chow International. They apply for registration of pncimports Brand Name and several pncimports domain names associated with your company name.
Now we are processing this request, please let me know whether this company is affiliated with your company. If so, we will continue the next step of registration. If not, please give me a confirmation ASAP. Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Jerry Chan
Tel: 0086.5516349 1192
Fax: 0086.5516349 1192
Dingsheng Times Square No.299,Maanshan South Road,HefeI
Jerry Chan [ jc@dshn-cloud.cn ]
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This "Jerry Chan" sure is busy! Got the same exact wording as in the dshn-cloud.cn example above, but from a different address (@mopoip.org.cn) and with a different Chinese company. Boilerplate for sure.Interesting that the initial email starts out soft - no direct ploy for money. Probably comes later, if you engage. Sneaky b*st*rds...Thanks for this post. I'll bookmark your site for the next time I need to confirm a hoax.
Slight variation, but basically the same initial step in the scam:"Dear Mr/Mrs,We are a domain registrar. Today we received an application from Shirley Tam International. They apply for registration of %domain name% Brand Name and several %domain name% domain names associated with your company name. We are not sure about your company's relationship with this company.Now, we are processing this application. We need to confirm whether this company is affiliated with your company. If so, we will continue the next step of registration. If not, please let me know as soon as possible in order that we can deal with this problem in time. Thanks for your time.Regards,Joshua LeeTel: 0086.5516349 1192 Fax: 0086.5516349 1192Dingsheng Times Square No.299,Maanshan South Road,Hefei"
Here is another scam: "From: Jerry Chan [mailto:chan@dshn-cloud.cn] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 11:52 PM Subject: savingshippingusa domains Importance: High Dear Mr. / Ms., We are a domain registrar. Today we received an application from Joanna Cheung International. They apply for registration of savingshippingusa Brand Name and several savingshippingusa domain names associated with your company name. We are not sure about your company's relationship with this company. Now, we are processing this application. We need to confirm whether this company is affiliated with your company. If so, we will continue the next step of registration. If not, please let me know as soon as possible in order that we can deal with this problem in time. Thanks for your time. Regards, Jerry Chan Tel: 0086.5516349 1192 Fax: 0086.5516349 1192 Dingsheng Times Square No.299,Maanshan South Road,Hefei"
We received this one today:"Dear Mr. / Ms.,Thank you for reading this email. We are a domain registrar. Today we received a registration request from Teresa Lau International. They apply for registration of EXAMPLE Brand Name and several EXAMPLE domain names associated with your company name.Now we are processing this request, please let me know whether this company is affiliated with your company. If so, we will continue the next step of registration. If not, please give me a confirmation ASAP. Thanks for your time.Regards,Joshua LeeTel: 0086.5516349 1192 Fax: 0086.5516349 1192Dingsheng Times Square No.299,Maanshan South Road,Hefei"
We just received one of these emails:"From: Leo Ma Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:43:34 PMTo: xxxxxxxxSubject: [our domain name] domains Dear Mr / Ms,Thank you for reading this email. We are a domain registrar. Today we received a registration request from Doris Yu International. They apply for registration of [our domain name]Brand Name and several [our domain name]domain names associated with your company name.Now we are processing this request, please let me know whether this company is affiliated with your company. If so, we will continue the next step of registration. If not, please give me a confirmation ASAP. Thanks for your time.Regards,Leo MaTel: 0086.5516349 1192 Fax: 0086.5516349 1192Dingsheng Times Square No.299,Maanshan South Road,Hefei"
