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"hostructions.org" Domain SEO Service Registration - it is a Fraudulent Website

"www.hostructions.org" also called "Pricing Domain Service" is a fraudulent website created by cyber-criminals to steal their potential victims’ money, by claiming the victims are paying for search engine optimization (SEO) services. The fraudulent website that goes by the name: Domain SEO Service Registration Corp., which claims it offers high-quality search engine optimization service that keeps your site ranking high, has been sending out fake domain name expiration offer notices like the one below via email messages, to thousands of domain name owners, in an attempt to trick them into paying for services that the fake website does not offer.

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hostructions.org - the Fraudulent Website

The Fake Domain Name Expiration Offer Notice Email

From: Domain Service - info@serveraward.top

Sent: 26 June 2018 15:45

Pending Suspension

LAST NOTICE FOR DOMAIN Notice#: 826352334

.com

Date: 06.26.2018

DOMAIN: .com

This is a notification that your service is about to be suspended. The details of this suspension are below:

- SERVICE SUSPENSION NOTIFICATION -

SUSPENSION REASON: OVERDUE ON PAYMENT

PURCHASE EXPIRATION DATE: 07.03.2018

SIMPLY CLICK ON

SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT

TO COMPLETE YOUR PAYMENT

ACT IMMEDIATELY !

Arden, Hornby Road, Appleton Wiske

Northallerton

, DL6 2AF, United Kingdom

Domain Name: Registration Period: Price: Term:

.com 07.04.2018 to 07.04.2019 $84.00 1 Year

Dear

This notification is generated automatically as a service to you. If you don't renew your order service by 07.03.2018 , it will be PERMANENTLY deleted. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to close any and all of your Account(s) with us immediately. After that it will not be possible to recover any data. This may end in making it difficult for your customers to locate you, using search engines on the web.

Instructions:

Unlike here Please do not reply to this email, as we are not able to respond to messages sent to this address.

The victims of the domain name expiration scam are asked to report it to their banks in order to have the charges to their credit cards removed, which were made by the fraudulent website.

Remember, never to take up an offer sent in an email message, without first researching it. It doesn’t matter how good an email message looks, even if it contains your personal information, it can be a scam.

Every month, thousands of the email message above are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their money. So, look out for similar scams with different website and company names.

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