{"id":89,"date":"2009-11-24T00:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:19:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-24T00:19:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:19:44","slug":"chinese-domain-name-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/2009\/11\/24\/chinese-domain-name-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese domain name scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago we received an email from a guy named \"Tony\" with the email address of <b>tony&#64;xgymzc.hk.cn<\/b>.  I have since received two emails from this same person, the last one with an email address of <b>tony&#64;skasia.hk.cn<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The first email went like this:<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Dear Manager, <\/p>\n<p>We are SK net service company ltd, the registration organization of trademark,internet brand and domain name in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>On 15th,November.We have already received Juda Asia Industry Limited want to register (icetips  ) internet brand and related domain names. After our department checked,you are the original owner of the brand,you have the first protection right. please let me know whether your company authorize JUDA to register them or regsiter them by yourself. If we can not receive your reply within a period,we will think that your company given up them and we will help Juda Asia Industry Limited to register them. Looking forward your response! Best Regards, Tony<\/p>\n<p>SK Asia<br \/>\nTel: 00852-3071 7712<br \/>\nFax:00852-3071 7730<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skasia.hk.cn\" >www.skasia.hk.cn<\/a><br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today I received the third email and decided to look into this as this was sounding like a scam to me.  After some snooping around I found <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sinohosting.net\/beware-of-chinese-domain-names-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">this blog site<\/a> with comments from over a hundred people about this scam.  Basically they try to solicit people to register domain names with them, indicating that they have a client that is going to register your domain name with one of the East Asian domains, such as .cn, .tw, .hk etc.  Currently you can simply go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godaddy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Godaddy.com<\/a> and register them, although the price can be quite high, for example the .tw domains are $39.99 a year.  <\/p>\n<p>I just thought I'd let my readers know about this so you know that this is a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Arnor Baldvinsson<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_89\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"89\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago we received an email from a guy named \"Tony\" with the email address of tony&#64;xgymzc.hk.cn. 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The first email went like this: Dear Manager, We are SK net service company ltd, the registration organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/2009\/11\/24\/chinese-domain-name-scams\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese domain name scams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_89\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"89\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}