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.chinaygdns.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.
A Fraudulent Chinese Domain Name Registration Email from www.chinaygdns.cn
From: info1@chinaygdns.cn <info1@chinaygdns.cn> On Behalf Of Mike Zhang
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 2:44 PM
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 An Ltd on May 14, 2018. 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? Please reply to mike.zhang@chinaygdomain.cn or chinanameregistry@188.com.
Best Regards,
Mike Zhang | Service & Operations Manager
China YG Domain (Head Office) | 8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, Shanghai 201105, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823
Email: mike.zhang@chinaygdomain(dot)cn or chinanameregistry@188.com
Web: www(dot)chinaygdomain(dot)cn
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