Chinese Domain Name Scams
Too Long; Didn’t Read?
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- It’s a scam
- Delete it
- There’s no need to register these domain names through your usual registrar
- If you ask your usual registrar they will probably use FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) to encourage you to spend money with them as most registrars are not much better than these scammers
The Long Version…
Here’s an email I received before Christmas from info@ygnetworksit.com:
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. We received an application from BaoYuan Ltd on December 17, 2012. They want to register ” squelchdesign ” as their internet keyword and China/Asia (CN/ASIA) domain names. But after checking it, we find this name conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards
John
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.ygnetworkit.com
An odd email; Lots of broken English and things that don’t entirely make sense if you know anything about my company, but then it could be from a legitimate source that simply hasn’t taken the time to find out more about the company. I figured it had to be suspect, but gave them the benefit of the doubt to see where this was heading:
Hello John,
I’m not 100% sure I am understanding your question fully. BaoYuan are in no way associated with Squelch Design, today is the first time I heard the name.
Yes there would be a conflict if they go ahead and register squelchdesign.cn; Squelch Design does not actively operate in China, but is happy to accept custom from all over the world. I believe registering a company in China with the same name would cause brand confusion and erosion and, given that I went to great lengths to find a name that was not already in use, and having invested a great deal of time and money into Search Engine Optimisation, registering a similarly named website would be very poor etiquette. As far as I can tell BaoYuan are in the chemical/packing materials industry, so it strikes me as odd that they would want to register “squelchdesign” as a domain.
Many thanks,
Matt Lowe
Three days later I got a response. Not from John, but from Lin JianFa – supposedly an employee of BaoYuan – yet using the address jianfa.lin@yahoo.cn:
Dear Sirs,
Our company has submitted the “squelchdesign ” as CN/Asia domain name and Internet Keyword, we are waiting for Mr. John’s approval. We think this name is very important for our products in Chinese and Asian market. Even though Mr. John advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards
Lin JianFa
Immediately I smelt a rat, the style of the speech was absolutely identical to John’s, as was the formatting and with similar incorrect usage of punctuation. I’ve seen this before when I baited a Nigerian 419 scammer a few years back. The fact that this employee of the company was using a Yahoo address was just plain wrong. So far they’d set the scene: They’d heavily implied someone was going to take my company name and start using it, creating brand confusion, but they’d not yet presented a way to get money out of me. So, I carried on playing along:
Lin,
I believe that if you persist in using the name squelchdesign.cn you will only confuse my customers and yours, making it more difficult for my customers to find my website. May I ask what services/business your company would be doing with the name?
Many thanks,
Matt Lowe
That was the last I heard from Lin. John, however, did send me more emails:
Dear Matt ,
Based on your company having no relationship with them, we have suggested they should choose another name to avoid this conflict but they insist on this name as CN/Asia domain names (.asia and .cn and .com.cn and .net.cn and .org.cn) and internet keyword on the internet. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company and register it to promote his company.
According to the domain name registration principle: The domain names and internet keyword which applied based on the international principle are opened to companies as well as individuals. Any companies or individuals have rights to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Because your company haven’t registered this name as CN/ASIA domains and internet keyword on the internet, anyone can obtain them by registration. However, in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner has priority to make this registration in our audit period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these CN/ASIA domain names (.asia and .cn and .com.cn and .net.cn and .org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send an application form and the price list to you and help you register these within dispute period.Kind regards
John
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.ygnetworkit.com
Note the good cop/bad cop thing that he has going on with Lin; He’s doing me a favour by telling me they want to encroach on my company’s name.
The guys over at TechRepublic received an incredibly similar email back in 2009. Over at HoaxSlayer other people have reported, pretty much word for word, the exact same emails I have shown here. Even Wikipedia has an article on this scam. But I carried on playing along, curious to see how much he wanted to fleece me for:
Hi John,
How long is the dispute period?
Many thanks,
Matt Lowe
Dear Matt ,
The checking time will be over soon, we have not received your reply about the domain name and internet keyword since our last communication. You must know domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So the company has right to register them. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to refuse their application. We aslo suggest this company should change another name but they stick to this name so if your company want to prevent anybody from using these domains, the only way is to register these CN/ASIA domains and internet keyword. In our checking time, your company has first priority to register them. Could you tell us whether your company want to make this application to prevent anybody from using them or not?
Best Regards
John
Hi John,
Thanks for the reply. How much would it cost?
Many thanks,
Matt Lowe
And now, the moment of truth:
Dear Matt:
Thanks for your reply. If you would like to protect by yourself and according to our checking progress,
we will send an application blank to you. After you fill in it, you need to send it back to us. When we
received you information we will overrule their application and register for you in one day. And the
registration fee for CN domain is 38.8 USD year, ASIA domain is 36.6 USD per year, internet keyword
is 148 USD per year. If you want to protect yourself, I am very glad to help you. Right now, the checking
is going to the end, please reply in two working days.Have a nice day .
Best Regards
John
So back in his first email he suggested BaoYuan wanted to register squelchdesign.asia, squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn, and the internet keyword “squelchdesign”. That’s one .asia, four .cn domains, and one Internet keyword. That comes to a total of $339.80 USD or approximately £214. Update 2017: See below, it gets worse!
The moral of the story is if you get an email from China (or anywhere else for that matter) warning you that someone is trying to muscle in on your business’s name, be very careful. Very very careful indeed. Here’s the registration details for this particular scammer’s company:
pan xiaohong
lichenfang@zjedu.org
tel: 13661529704
fax: 02162961557
shanghaixingqunandanlu
shanghai,shanghai,CN
200010
I’m 99% sure that “John” is a fictitious character and that Pan Xiaohong is in fact the perpetrator. So maybe if you get an email from this John character, maybe try replying with “Hi Mr. Pan”, and see what happens? ;) Take care of your businesses guys. But keep in mind there are probably many “companies” running this scam in China.
Update 28/08/2013
The comments section below is getting pretty long as more and more people find this blog and send in the emails they received. As such I’m going to try and summarise the information in the comments below.
You might get emails from any of the following companies: YIGUAN, YIGUDNS, YIGUTEK, YGITECH or the domain names www.ygnetworkit.com, www.yiguannetwork.com, www.yigudns.com, www.yigutek.com, www.ygitech.com, www.cnygregistry.net, www.ygregistryltd.net, www.ygasia.org, www.ygcompany.org, pxisp.net or des-registry.org.
They might use one of the following names: John, Jim, Terry Tang, Peter Cheng, James Zhang, Simon Cheng, Gary Zhang, Mika Cao, Lan Du, Lex Ren, Jim Ying, Bill Cheng, Mark Wong or Abby Wang.
They might claim that the company attempting to register the domain is: BaoYuan Ltd, Weisheng company, Weisheng Holdings Ltd, Taisheng Limited, PengCheng Trading Co. Ltd, Huasheng Ltd, Huafeng Ltd or Kenpoco Ltd. Note that some, perhaps even all, of these companies are legitimate Asian companies and the scammers are simply using their names to try and give credibility to their claims.
You might be contacted by someone claiming to be from one of the companies above, usually using a Yahoo or Hotmail email address rather than a legitimate business address: Lin JianFa, Warren Chiou, Darren Chiou or Jiang Zhifa.
If you received an email with slightly different wording or from a different company then please feel free to post it in the comments section below so I can update the blog and we can all stay one step ahead of the scam.
Update 06/10/2017
After I posted this blog I never received any more of these scam emails, probably because my website was coming up in first place in Google for any searches related to “Chinese domain name scams”. I even tried replying on behalf of a few customers who’d received scam emails to see if I could further mess with the scammers, but I guess they did their homework because none of them would reply to me. Until the 19th of September that is, when “Charles Xu” contacted me.
(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
We are the domain registration and solution center in China. On Sep 18, 2017, we received an application from Jiatai Ltd requested “squelchdesign” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China?
How could I resist playing their game? It’s been 4 years since I was last contacted and asked to pay the ridiculous sum of £214 for domains I neither wanted nor needed. What would this scam look like in 2017?
Hi Charles,
We have no business dealings with Jiatai Ltd and any registration of a name featuring “squelchdesign” would be an infringement of our trading name.
Charles Good-Cop Xu had set the scene and had a bite. Now it was time for Gareth Bad-Cop Ren to do his part:
To whom it concerns,
We will register the China domain names “squelchdesign.cn” “squelchdesign.com.cn” “squelchdesign.net.cn” “squelchdesign.org.cn” and internet keyword “squelchdesign” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Charles Xu’s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Charles Xu advised us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Kind regards
Gareth Ren
Oh dear, that sounds terrible. I’d better play the worried webmaster part then:
Hello Gareth,
Registration of any domain name or Internet keywords containing “squelchdesign” would clearly water down our brand and would only cause confusion in the marketplace. We ask that you not make any such registration and instead create your own unique name.
Time once again for the good cop routine. Thank goodness Charles Xu was there to save the day.
Dear Matt Lowe,
We have already advised them to choose another name according to your company that have no relationship with them, but they insist on this name as China domain names (squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn) and internet keyword. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company then register it to promote his company.
As is known to all, domain name registration based on the international principle is opened to company and individual. Any company or individual have the right to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Your company haven’t registered this name as China domains and internet keyword, so anyone is able to obtain them by registration. But in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner have priority to register China domain name and internet keyword during our dispute period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these China domain names (squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send you an application form with price list to help your company register these China domains and internet keyword during our dispute period.
And now I just need to play my final part to get to the end-game, finding out their exorbitant prices:
Hi Charles,
We are indeed the original name owner and cannot have anyone infringing on our name. Please send over the application form.
And what a nice chap, he sent me his price list.
So to register all of the names and keywords that “Charles” suggests would set us back USD $1,476 which is roughly equivalent to £1,124 for registrations that we in no way need. This scam is getting more vicious, the total amount they want to rip people off by has grown from £214 to £1,124 – nearly a thousand pounds in 4 short years…
Don’t fall prey to these scammers! Delete and forget their emails, don’t pay them a penny.
Update 13/10/2017
They’re busy at the moment, I’ve had another one! This time from “TOI IT Service Center”, China Registry (Head Office) || No. 8-8018, Peace Building, Jinghu District, Wuhu City, China. Tel: 0086 5538 366231 || Fax: 0086 5538 366231.
Dear Sir/Madam
About the “squelchdesign”, we have some thing to comfirm with you! We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names, on October 11, 2017, we received an application named “Derlery Company” and they apply to register squelchdesign as their brand name and some top-level asian domain names. But we found the main body of domain names is same as yours. We are not sure about the relationship between you and them.
As the registrar, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for “Derlery Company” Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(Please kindly foward this email to your CEO or appropriate person. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
Owen Chen
Senior Adviser Manager
Hello Owen,
We have no dealings with Derlery Company and any attempt to register our trading name in China would have a considerable negative impact on our brand.
Dear Matt Lowe,
Thanks for your confirmation. As soon as receiving the application of “Derlery Company”, we checked and found “squelchdesign” is your company’s using name and brand. We are concerned that your brand name might be affected negatively by their applications, this is why we informed you. Following Network Brand and domain names are applied by “Derlery Company”:
Net Brand: squelchdesign
Domain Names:
“squelchdesign.cn
squelchdesign.com.cn
squelchdesign.net.cn
squelchdesign.org.cn
squelchdesign.cn.com
squelchdesign.asia
squelchdesign.in
squelchdesign.co.in
squelchdesign.hk
squelchdesign.com.hk
squelchdesign.tw
squelchdesign.com.tw
squelchdesign.中国
”
You know that the domain names registration is open in the world, “Derlery Company” also has the right to apply for the available domain names, but you have the preferential rights to register them. We also are not very clear about why the company wants to register these domain names, but according to our work experience, if they finish the registration, in internet, your customers must be confused and this registration will bring lots of competition to your company to impact your business soon.At present, we haven’t passed their application, we need your opinion. If your company consider these names of importance to your company’s business and interest, I suggest your company to register these names first so as to avoid confusion or speculation. Of course, If you don’t want to protect your intellectual property rights, then you can give up these names so that we can finish registering for them as per our duty. Please give me your company’s decision as soon as possible in order to handle this issue better.
Have a nice day.
Best Regards,Owen Chen
Senior Adviser Manager
Hi Owen,
Thanks for informing me, I wouldn’t want my customers being confused by this registration. How do I go about registering these domain names?
Dear Matt Lowe,
Thanks for your confirmation, Of course, I can assure you that the best way for you to protect your business is to register these domains under your name, because after you finish the registration, you will become the exclusive owner of them! We, as the China local registrar, if you need to register those domains, we can help you.
Following is the procedure, you can do follow these:
1.You fill in the Registration Contract it via email(scanned) or fax.
2.We will send the Invoice signed & stamped to you, In the meantime We will formally submit the application to register for you and put on records according to you signed Registration Contract.
3.You transfer the payment to us according to the Bank information on the Invoice within 5 workdays and fax the payment proof to us.
4.You will be awarded the certificates of Domains after 10 workdays.Attached the Registration Contract, pls check. About the detailed price, pls refer to the contract.
If no question, please fill the contract and return to us ASAP, we will help you register these domain names as per the information which you will fill in the contract,thanks for your cooperation.Have a nice day.
Best Regards,Owen Chen
Senior Adviser Manager
And the moment of truth:
That works out at a minimum cost of €3,315 … or about £2,980.
Jan 2013: £214 requested
Sept 2017: £1,124 requested
Oct 2017: £2,980 requested
Ignore, delete, and keep your money in your bank where it belongs.
They seem to be targeting New Zealand based companies at he moment as me and my husband just received the same email for our company. Won’t bother copying and pasting as so many others have done so but just want to say thanks for the original post and all the comments confirming the scam.
Got this over the weekend in Ireland
(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
We are the domain registration and solution center in China. On July 21, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “**********” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (**********.cn, **********.com.cn, **********.net.cn, **********.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company is affiliated with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Daniel Liu | Service & Operations Manager
Asia Registry (Head Office) | 3005, Jinxuan Building, No. 238 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: daniel@asiaregistry.org.cn
Web: www . asiaregistry . org . cn
I got one too.
Dear Manager,
This is a confirmation letter regarding registration of your company name brooklineprintcenter, please read it carefully.
We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from Nex Global Co.,Ltd and they apply to register brooklineprintcenter as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.
We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don’t authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Diego Lu
Tel:0086.551.634911 91
Fax:0086.551.634911 92
Address:F1,Huishang Metal Building,No.1019,Fuyang Road,Hefei China
Really appreciate being able to find this post. It is the only way the we can wack the mole.
I received this yesterday
(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
We are the domain name registration service company in China. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “penhaligonsrecruitment” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (penhaligonsrecruitment.cn, penhaligonsrecruitment.com.cn, penhaligonsrecruitment.net.cn, penhaligonsrecruitment.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company have relations with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Tony Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: tony@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
I got one too, from Tony Xu.
Word for word apart from the domain (obviously) and the date was July 18, 2016. I’m in New Zealand.
We got today email below. Thank you matt have this blog to tell other people this scam.
It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “xxxxxxx” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (xxxxxxxx.cn, xxxxxxxx.com.cn, xxxxxxx.net.cn, xxxxxxx.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China?
Best Regards,
Steve Liu | Service & Operations Manager
CN Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: steve@cnregistry.com.cn
Web: www . cnregistry . com . cn
This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
Hi
Thank you for taking the time and trouble listing these scams. I hate scammers liars et al.
I also received an email a few days ago, names are different – perhaps because we are in Australia and can’t read English properly!
Thanks again.Matt.
Regards
Bruce
Dear CEO,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
We received an application from Hualong Ltd on July 19 2016. They want to register ” elengas ” as their Internet Keyword and ” elengas .cn “、” elengas .com.cn ” 、” elengas .net.cn “、” elengas .org.cn ” 、” elengas .asia ” domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find ” elengas ” conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road,
Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www . cnregistry . org . cn
** The Scam Letter from Rod rl@iglobal.org.cn **
(Letter to CEO or General Manager),
This is a letter to confirm the registration of your company name sellingcolumbus, please read it carefully. We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, our center received an application from BVUO International Ltd applying to register sellingcolumbus as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). After our careful investigation, We found the main body of domain names is same as yours. As a professional registrar, We are obligated to inform you of this situation.
We are handling the application and we need to confirm whether or not you authorize them to register them? Let me know your answer ASAP so as to solve this promptly. Thanks for your cooperation.
Best Regards,
Rod Lee
Tel:+86.5516 3491 191
Fax:+86.5516 3491 192
Address:No.1,Xingshun Building,Fengyang Road,Hefei China
** My Reply **
SellingColumbus is already a recognized brand we own. I do not authorize anyone else to use of it.
If they want to purchase it from me, I would consider $250,000 US dollars. Let me know if there is interest.
Until a decision is made about delivering the $250,000 US dollars, would you please take our domain off your scam list?
I received the following email:
(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “********” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (********.cn, ********.com.cn, ********.net.cn, ********.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your distributor in China?
Best Regards,
Bob Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: bob@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
Seems like we all got hit on the same day!
(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “gwstech” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (gwstech.cn, gwstech.com.cn, gwstech.net.cn, gwstech.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company have affiliation with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Daniel Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: daniel@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
***…AND SO IT BEGINS.***
Tony Xu (chinaregistry180@aliyun.com) Add to contacts 26/07/2016 Keep this message at the top of your inbox
To: ***
chinaregistry180@aliyun.com
(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “***” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (***.cn, ***com.cn, ***.net.cn, ***.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is associated with your company or not?
Best Regards,
Tony Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: tony@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
***MY REPLY***
Hi Tony
This company (Kehong Holdings Ltd) is in no way associated with our company name or our trademark.
regards
Paul Ledwich
Company Director
***…OH, HELLO Gareth?!***
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:13:10 +0800
From: garethrao@gmail.com
To: ***
Subject: ***
To whom it concerns,
We are the Kehong company. We will register the China domain names “***.cn” “***.com.cn” “***.net.cn” “***.org.cn” and internet keyword “***” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Tony Xu’s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Tony Xu advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Kind regards
Gareth Rao
***MY (TONGUE FIRMLY IN CHEEK) REPLY***
Hi Gareth Rao,
I’m more than happy to sell you my domain titles/names and company for $500,000 USD.
Please send me your details including name, address, bank name, bank account and any other relevant information necessary so we can conclude the sale.
I await your approval.
regards
*** WAHOOOOO!!!!! I’M GONNA BE RICH…***
I love your anwser! can I use it on my next answer? lol! We both gonna be rich!
I filled up a fraud form on Canada Governement with their information . Don’t know if they will caught them one day thought….
Just got this! Same details as above but with our company details as the keyword:
Watch out for this contact below!
…….
Best Regards,
Bob Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: bob@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
Got this today….
From: “Simon Zhang”
To: e*******@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 6:34 AM
Subject: carolinamedicalmission CN domain and keyword
(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
We are the domain registration and solution center in China. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “carolinamedicalmission” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (carolinamedicalmission.cn, carolinamedicalmission.com.cn, carolinamedicalmission.net.cn, carolinamedicalmission.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is associated with your company or not?
Best Regards,
Simon Zhang | Servic
another one.
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This time the email was addresses to Allnet4u Enterprise:
From: chinaregistry174@aliyun.com
(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “allnet4u” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (allnet4u.cn, allnet4u.com.cn, allnet4u.net.cn, allnet4u.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company have connection with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Bob Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: bob@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.
aliyun.com is not a domain register at all, only a hosting substitute of alibaba.com a china wholesaler (where we had problem in the past with a fraudulent china company), like the one we all know ebay.com (honest one).
Same with my company details – and this contact
Best Regards,
Ian Xu | Service & Operations Manager
YIGUDNS (Head Office) | 3005, Jinxuan Building, No. 238 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: ian.xu@yigudns.cn
Web: www . yigudns . cn
Yup, got one too Hualong Ltd
We received the same on 27 July from ‘Tony Xu’ with our own details. Then a response from ‘Gareth Rao’ (garethrao@gmail.com) purporting to be from Kehong Holdings Ltd. Smelling a rat I then found this blog. Thanks a bunch for the heads up!
Tony Xu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: tony@chinaregistry.cn
Web: www . chinaregistry . cn
Same thing! In Québec, Canada. They are really active!
First e-mail July 26, 2016:
To whom it concerns,
Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
We are the domain registration and solution center in China. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “gestionnoriod” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (gestionnoriod.cn, gestionnoriod.com.cn, gestionnoriod.net.cn, gestionnoriod.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company have connection with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Daniel Liu | Service & Operations Manager
Asia Registry (Head Office) | 3005, Jinxuan Building, No. 238 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: daniel@asiaregistry.org.cn
Second e-mail July 28, 2016:
To whom it concerns,
We are the Kehong company. We will register the China domain names “gestionnoriod.cn” “gestionnoriod.com.cn” “gestionnoriod.net.cn” “gestionnoriod.org.cn” and internet keyword “gestionnoriod” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Daniel Liu’s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Daniel Liu advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Kind regards
Gareth Rao
All sounds very familiar, this is mine from the 28th July 2016
Mick
From: Paul Liu [mailto:yogudns67@aliyun.com]
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2016 1:24 AM
To: ******************@*******.com
Subject: matajatfabrication CN domain and keyword
(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On July 25, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “matajatfabrication” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (matajatfabrication.cn, matajatfabrication.com.cn, matajatfabrication.net.cn, matajatfabrication.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is associated with your company or not?
Best Regards,
Paul Liu | Service & Operations Manager
CN Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: paul@cnregistry.com.cn
Web: www . cnregistry . com . cn
And followed by this one today 29thJjuly 2016
From: Gareth Rao [mailto:garethrao@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2016 9:52 PM
To: Hansen, Mick
Subject: matajatfabrication
To whom it concerns,
We are the Kehong company. We will register the China domain names “matajatfabrication.cn” “matajatfabrication.com.cn” “matajatfabrication.net.cn” “matajatfabrication.org.cn” and internet keyword “matajatfabrication” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Paul Liu ‘s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Paul Liu advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Kind regards
Gareth Rao
They arrived in Italy, Rome too! we have just received and at the moment being I won’t reply.
Let’s see what happen!
(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
We are the domain name registration service company in China. On July 28, 2016, we received an application from Kehong Holdings Ltd requested “ibedi” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (ibedi.cn, ibedi.com.cn, ibedi.net.cn, ibedi.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your distributor in China?
Best Regards,
Paul Liu | Service & Operations Manager
CN Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: paul@cnregistry.com.cn
Web: www . cnregistry . com . cn
(Since it is significant, forward the following E-mail to your CEO or relevant responsible person. Thanks)
Dear CEO/Principal,
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 28, 2016 that a company claimed “CandMan Company” were applying to register “pleosoft” as their Net Brand and some “pleosoft” Asian countries top-level domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company’s. Since now the cyber-squatting events and domain name abuse are very serious, in order to avoid such incidents cause unnecessary loss of benefits to your company. so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for “CandMan Company” Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Best Regards,
Max Dong
Senior Consultant Manager
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