[dns-operations] here's a domain scam i havn't seen before

[Gregory Hicks]

> From: Dave Knight <dave at knig.ht>
> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:54:11 -0400
> 
> I saw one of these just yesterday... 

We saw these at $DAY_JOB several years ago. 
> 
> > From: hunk.zhou <hunk.zhou at day1-net.com>
> > Date: April 7, 2010 3:23:35 AM EDT
> > 
> > (If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to 
appropriate dept, thanks.)
> >  
> > Dear CEO,
> > 
> > We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china. 
we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an 
application on April 7, 2010, one company which called "lin & xi 
investment inc" is applying to register "icann" as network brand and 
following Domains: 
> > "icann.com.tw" 
> > After our initial examination, we found that the network brand 
applied for registration are as same as your company's name. These days 
we are dealing with it, and 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 confirm that our time limit is 7 workdays. If 
your company files no reply within the time limit, we will 
unconditionally approve the application submitted by "lin & xi 
investment inc". 
> > Best Regards,
> >  
> > Hunk Zhou (Mr.)
> > Senior Consultant 
> > Room101,No.10,  Lane 199,  XiangNan Road,
> > Pudong New District, Shanghai,China
> > Tel :  +086-21-58952199
> > Fax :  +086-21-58952239
> > Web:

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