Domain name renewal scam

Domain name renewal scam

I got another one of those read-it-or-fall-for-it domain name expiry scam at work emails today. Like the last one, it relies on you panicking when you read it and think your company’s domain name is due to expire – today – and you hurriedly send off your pennies to this company in order to keep your site running.

Of course, that isn’t what’s happening. This company are actually selling you a search engine submission subscription. Something which is pretty useless these days anyway, even if that is what they actually do (I doubt it).

To add to the panic, I received this today (12th May) with the subject “This is your Final Notice of Domain Notification”. Look at the deadline for when my domain registration expires: today.

Helpfully, there’s no company name on the email, although the sender is a dead giveaway something is up – Domain Services <domsrvcs72@hotmail.com>. Then there’s the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom, which uses the email address wdsrv278@operamail.com. The address for the company is given as 47-47 36th Street #16452, Long Island City, NY 11101 in the US. Another giveaway, as the domain is UK registered. Finally, there’s a fax number: 1-646-385-7542.

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  1. I just received an email from these folks. Although I’ve received countless similar postal mailings in the past. It seems I have to renew one of my domains and the cool part of the deal (well at least they think it’s the coolest part) is that I can renew my domain for the lifetime rate of 999.00. Can you believe this crap. How can these folks get away with things like this? And how could folks fall in to this crap?

    Can we turn folks in that do this? Is this legit? Who do we need to forward this to? I replied back to the email that was sent and the email bounced and was undeliverable!

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