Asia DNR (or DNS) spam
I just received this email about a domain name that my company owns as I’m to the domain contact.
“ Dear CEO,
We are a domain name registrar centre in HongKong, and in charge of the registeration in Asia,We have something important need to confirm with your company.
On the May21,2008, we received an application formally. One company named “Hkadtod Holdings Limited ” applied for the internet trademark:
” bayinfocomm”
Domain names:
MyDomain.cn
MyDomain.com.cn
MyDomain.net.cn
MyDomain.org.cn
MyDomain.tw
MyDomain.com.tw
MyDomain.hk
MyDomain.com.hk
MyDomain.asia
Internet brand keyword:
MyDomain
through our body.
After our initial examination, we found that the keywords and domain names 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 Luyun AP Company yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 10 workdays. If your company files no dissent within the time limit,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Hkadtod Holdings Limited”.
Best Regards,
brent.lee
——————————————————————————————————————————————–
-Brent| Asia DNR Auditing Officer |King Regards-
ASIA DNR (HONGKONG)
Tel: +852-3075 9838
Fax:+852-3177 1520 | +852-3177 1510
Email: brent.lee@asiaip.org | brent.lee@dnrinasia.com
Website: Http://www.asiadnr.org www.asiaip.org
Add: 3A, Units 20/F, Far East Consortium Bldg., 121 Des
Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong”
I was perplexed and was going to consult the legal department about the same. I was about to forward the email with a covering letter asking for assistance but decided to check the Internet hoping to get a better idea about what was happening as the whole thing seemed fishy.
When I googled “Asia DNR” the results confirmed my doubts that it was spam.
The question that was on my mind was how would the spammer gain? After researching I found that the only way they could gain was that once you respond to their email they would offer to transfer the other domains (which are similar to the name of your company) for a transfer fee of about $300 per domain! Maysoft’s blog at http://blog.maysoft.org/blog.nsf has a pretty good explanation on how the scammers benefit.
The reason why this scam might get some results is that when one receives this kind of an email the first reaction is to act and act fast without thinking much and I’m sure the spammers have managed to get responses from a lot of recipients of these kind of emails. Some of them would have paid for the additional domain names.
The lesson is that whenever you get similar emails search for similar emails on a search engine and that would help you judge whether the mail is spam or not.
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