Beware – Domain Name Protection Scam

A month ago, I receive the following letter. At first I thought that someone wanted to buy one of my domain names and seriously searched for tips on how to deal with it. Eventually I found out that this email was one of thousands of scammed letters sent out ot trick people into paying for some bogus company to protect the domain names they are currently have.

You can find out more here.

Dear CEO,

We are the domain name registration organization in Asia, which
mainly deal with international company’s in Asia. We have something

important need to confirm with your company.  On the Mar. 25, 2008, we received an application formally. One company named “Company.” wanted to register following

Domain names: through our body.After our initial examination, we found that the keywords and domain names “beyond sarajevo” applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and
trademark. These days we are dealing with it. If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other aims to buy these domain names. Now we have not finished the registration of Jiedeng company yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
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