I found this waiting for me in my inbox this morning. Fun!
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.
We received a formal application from a company called “sa-lar yun Investment Corp” applying to register
Internet trademark:
Miproconsulting
Domain names:
miproconsulting.asia
miproconsulting.biz
miproconsulting.cc
miproconsulting.cn
miproconsulting.com.cn
miproconsulting.com.tw
miproconsulting.hk
miproconsulting.net.cn
miproconsulting.org.cn
miproconsulting.twin China and also in Asia on Jun. 23. 2008.
During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged “sa-lar yun Investment Corp” has no trade mark, Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word. as an authoritative registration organization, we have the duty to inform you this matter. 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 sa-lar yun Investment Corp yet, in order to deal with this issue better, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Hayee
Auditing Department
SK Holdings, Ltd.
This is clever and it took a bit of time to figure out the pathology. But there is one, and it’s interesting.
This approach is obviously personalized to the owner/manager of a commercial Internet brand and hints at risk to our online trademark (miproconsulting) due to a foreign application being made for our trademark name in country-specific flavors (.asia, .biz, .cc, .cn, .com. cn., .hk, etc.). Being the nice foreign domain registrar they are, the sender of this message, SK Holdings, is asking us if we want to do business with them and secure all of the miproconsulting variants listed below so that we can protect our Internet brand from this foreign applicant.
Isn’t it nice that someone halfway across the globe is looking out for our best interests? Makes me want to do business with them right away.
There are many versions of this floating around the web, most of which have Chinese senders. Seems they’re really advancing their pretexting game. Hooray.
If you’ve stumbled across this yourself, paste a copy of the email you received in the comments. Like other spam of this ilk, there are likely countless variants out there.
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Dear CEO/Principal,
We are a professional Internet consultant organization in HongKong.We have something important on intellectual property right need to confirm with your company. On Oct 20, 2008, we received an application formally.One company named “Spaqe International Holdings Ltd.” wanted to register the following domain names:
.asia
.com.hk
.com.tw
.hk
.net.cn
.tw
.us
ixxo.jp
ixxo.it
and Internet brand:
through our body.
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword is identical with your trademark.I wonder whether you consigned Spine company to register these domian names through us. Or you do not know this company what so ever. If you do not have idea on them, we doubt their motivation to purchase these domain names. Now we have postponed this issue and have not proceeded their registration.In order to deal with it better, Please let the principal contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Marry
We received the same type of email today. Scary, but pretty easy to find information about thanks to among others this blog. =)
Dear President/CEO,
We are the department which is in charge of registering Internet intellectual property of Asia. I have something need to confirm with you. We have received an application formally, one company named “QianKun Investment Limited” applies for
The Internet Trademark Keyword:
Bonnybabies
The domain names:
bonnybabies.asia
bonnybabies.cn
bonnybabies.com.cn
bonnybabies.hk
bonnybabies.in
bonnybabies.mobi
bonnybabies.tw
bonnybabies.us
On Oct 21.2008. After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we will deal with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us 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 “QianKun Investment Limited.”.
Best Regards,
Brian
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Tel: 00852 9566 0496 or 00852 9566 0489
Fax: 00852-8226 1011
Website: http://www.bestweb-service.net
Our letter was the same subject and content as Shannon.
Thanks for putting this out there to help others STOP this.
Dear CEO/Principal,
We are a professional Internet consultant organization in HongKong.
We have something important on intellectual property right need to
confirm with your company.
On Oct 21, 2008, we received an application formally.One company named
“Tianchuang Holdings Limited” wanted to register the following domain
names:
spyville.eu
spyville.asia
spyville.in
spyville.sg
spyville.it
and Internet brand:spyville
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’
keyword is identical with your trademark.
I wonder whether you consigned Tianchuang company to register these
domian names through us. Or you do not know this company what so ever. If
you do not have idea on them, we doubt their motivation to purchase
these domain names. Now we have postponed this issue and have not
proceeded their registration.In order to deal with it better, Please let the
principal contact me as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Steve
Auditing Department (HK Office)
Tel: 00852 9566 0496 or 00852 9566 0489
Fax: 00852-8226 1011
Mail: steve@bestweb-service.org
Web: http://www.bestweb-service.net
Dear Madam or Sir,
We are the department which is in charge of registering Internet intellectual property of Asia. I have something need to confirm with you. We have received an application formally, one company named “Yuantai Investment Limited” applies for
The Internet Trademark:
juddwire
The domain names:
juddwire.asia
juddwire.com.hk
juddwire.com.tw
juddwire.hk
juddwire.info
juddwire.tw
OnOct 26. 2008. After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we will deal with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us 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 “Yuantai Investment Limited.”.
Best Regards,
Merry Wang
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Tel: 00852 9566 0496 or 00852 9566 0489
Fax: 00852-8226 1011
Website: http://www. bestweb-service.net
This is a letter for confirmation.If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept. Thanks for your cooperation.
Good job sniffing this out! It smelled fishy, but one never knows.
Dear Principal,
Are you the owner of the trademark “lyonscoffee”, please?We have something important need to confirm with your company.On the October 28, 2008, we received an application formally. One company named “Sine international Holdings Ltd” wanted to register following
Domain names:
lyonscoffee.asia
lyonscoffee.cc
lyonscoffee.cn
lyonscoffee.hk
lyonscoffee.in
lyonscoffee.tw
lyonscoffee.com.cn
Internet trademark:
Lyonscoffee
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 Sine international Holdings Ltd yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Jane
Auditing Department
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Tel: 00852-9566-0496/00852-9566-0489
Fax: 00852-82261011
Email:jane@bestweb-service.org
Web: http://www.bestweb-service.net
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Confidentiality Notice. This is a letter for confirmation. If the mentioned third party is your business partner or distributor in Asia please DO NOT reply. We will automatically confirm application from your business partner after this audit procedure.we have to notify you,and our registration organization are not responsible for any dispute questions about trade mark,intellectual property nor patent after they succeed in registration.hope you can understand.thank you.
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This one actually made me think for about 15 seconds. However, with the easy access to information which blogs like this provide, all you have to do is search the subject line in the SE of your choice to find out it’s spam. “Intellectual property rights (TO”. Thanks for the post.
Hello everyone.
We received this (the second such email in the past few months) the other day for your information.
Many thanks and regards
Simon
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From: “jane” jane@bestweb-service.org
To: “simon” simon@iauctionshop.co.uk
Sent: Thu 30/10/08 03:35
Subject: Fwd: Re: Iauctionshop-Notice Of Internet intellectual property right (TO Principal)
Dear Principal,
Are you the owner of the trademark “iauctionshop”, please?We have
something important need to confirm with your company.On the October
29, 2008, we received an application formally. One company named
“Sine international Holdings Ltd” wanted to register following
Domain names: iauctionshop.asia
iauctionshop.biz
iauctionshop.cc
iauctionshop.hk
iauctionshop.in
iauctionshop.tw
iauctionshop.com.cn Internet trademark: Iauctionshop 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 Sine
international Holdings Ltd yet, in order to deal with this issue
better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
Best Regards, Jane Auditing Department
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Tel: 00852-9566-0496/00852-9566-0489 Fax: 00852-82261011
Email:jane@bestweb-service.org Web: http://www.bestweb-service.net
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Confidentiality Notice. This is a letter for confirmation. If the
mentioned third party is your business partner or distributor in
Asia please DO NOT reply. We will automatically confirm application
from your business partner after this audit procedure.we have to
notify you,and our registration organization are not responsible for
any dispute questions about trade mark,intellectual property nor
patent after they succeed in registration.hope you can
understand.thank you.
I received this email this morning. I am sure this must worry a few people.
Dear CEO,
We have something important to confirm with your company.
On the Nov 10, 2008, we received an application formally from one company named “AnLan international Holdings Ltd” who applied for the Internet trademark: “computersupport” and some domain names relevant to this trademark from our organization.
After our initial examination, we found that the Internet trademark and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, so we hope to get assistant from your company.
Considering this issue will relate to your intellectual property, now we have not finished the registration of AnLan company yet,in order to deal with this issue better,Please forward this email to the person who can be in charge and contact us in time.Thank you!
Best Regards,
Camille
Auditing Department
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