"renew your domains" scam

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  • =^..^=
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2002
    • 6935

    #1

    "renew your domains" scam

    This scam is probably old but I never saw it until now:


    I got a shit load of letters (snail mail) in my post box this week
    all form some place calling themselves:

    "Domain Registry of America"

    funny thing is their office is in Melbourne australia....
    anyhow it was a reminder to renew my domains which immediately aroused my suspicion as i have never requested any regitrar contact me by snail mail for this

    so then i read all the letters and every single one of them is asking me to "renew" www.mydomainnameshere.INFO

    haha! smart asses - ive never owned a .info LOL

    oh so i went to thw website just to see what the scammers charge:

    $40 for a renewal!!!

    oh and their "bulk rate" is $15 per domain!!




    you gotta give em credit for trying - I wonder how many ppl get sucked in by it though?
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  • JFPdude
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2002
    • 4027

    #2
    I been getting them weekly for years. The letter looks all official like you have to renew with them.

    So real in fact my wife believes "Domain Registry of America" is Go-Daddy because she's been scared enough times we were going to lose a domain everytime we get one she goes into our godaddy account and renews the domain another year LOL

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    • dunefield
      www.barely18movies.com
      • Feb 2003
      • 10920

      #3
      yeah i've had those scam letters before as well... they do look authentic though...

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      • Jace
        FBOP Class Of 2013
        • Jan 2004
        • 35562

        #4
        i get them too, we all do

        i wonder how many people fall for it, must be enough to keep them going

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        • KMR Stitch
          I am cool
          • Jul 2003
          • 14494

          #5
          I got one the other day.. I threw it in the trash

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          • Dalai lama
            Strength and Honor
            • Jul 2004
            • 16540

            #6
            we all get them

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            • biskoppen
              Confirmed User
              • Mar 2003
              • 5809

              #7
              Originally posted by JaceXXX
              i get them too, we all do

              i wonder how many people fall for it, must be enough to keep them going
              I think tons of people fall for it .. especially non-english speaking people... if you have an important website running and you get this one you get scared
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              • budz
                Disruptive Innovator
                • Sep 2003
                • 4230

                #8
                yea, I get them quite a bit

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                • bjjb
                  Have laptop will travel
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 13074

                  #9
                  Yep been getting some of them lately too.

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                  • Furious_Male
                    Doing the grind since 99
                    • Oct 2003
                    • 16884

                    #10
                    I have gotten them for a long time myself. My only concern with these solicitations is they tend to fool the average business owner. I had 1 client that was fooled by it.
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                    • Sarah_Jayne
                      Now with more Jayne
                      • Dec 2002
                      • 40077

                      #11
                      yeah I got about a dozen letter from this week too. It was another name last year but obviously the same people.

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                      • chemicaleyes
                        UNSTOPPABLE
                        • Aug 2003
                        • 11569

                        #12
                        Been getting that junk mail from "Domain Registry of America" for years now.. there are agencies building cases against them.
                        No way as way, No limitation as limitation. AmeriNOC formally PhatServers

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                        • d00t
                          Confirmed User
                          • Sep 2002
                          • 3766

                          #13
                          [QUOTEhahahaha^..^=]
                          funny thing is their office is in Melbourne australia....
                          [/QUOTE]

                          They've been doing it since 2000 in AU and sued by everyone under the sun.... how long have you been asleep?

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                          • RawAlex
                            So Fucking Banned
                            • Oct 2003
                            • 9465

                            #14
                            Get tons of those for a company called "domain registry of canada" in official government size brown envelope with little canadian flag almost exactly like government, doesn't look like a sales pitch, looks like a bill.

                            I got their lawyers on the phone, and suggested that they were going to spend a bunch of time on TV in the next few weeks if they didn't back off - I haven't gotten any from them in over a year as a result.

                            fuckwad scammer bastards fuckheads.

                            Why do you think no sane people want anything to do with the internet? All the fucking asswipe scammers are here. We are generally fucking up the best business model ever created.

                            thanks fuckwads!

                            Alex

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                            • KRL
                              Entrepreneur
                              • Oct 2002
                              • 31429

                              #15
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