Got an "Intellectual property rights" email regarding my site - GoFuckYourself.com

scottybuzz · 05-13-2008, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Dear Principal,

We are a domain name registrar centre in HongKong.and in charge of the registeration in Asia,We have something important need to confirm through your company.
We received a formal application from a company called "Li-Huo International Holdings Ltd" applying to register
the domain names:
foxyreviews.asia
foxyreviews.cn
foxyreviews.com.cn
foxyreviews.com.tw
foxyreviews.hk
foxyreviews.net.cn
foxyreviews.tw

And internet trademark keyword:
foxyreviews

in China and also in Asia on May. 12. 2008.

During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged "Li-Huo International Holdings Ltd" has no trade mark,Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word. As authorized anti-cybersquatting organization we hereby suspect the alleged "Li-Huo International Holdings Ltd" to be a domain grabber.Hence we need you confirmation for whether this alleged "Li-Huo International Holdings Ltd" is your business partner or distributor in China.

If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept.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,
Paker Lin.
Auditing Director.
Sponsoring Registrar: Asia DNR
Hong Kong Office
Tel: +(852)-3059-3057
Fax: +(852)-3059-3080
Email: [email protected] (work time) [email protected]
(24hours)
Web: www.domaininasia.com

Add: 3A, Units 20/F, Far East Consortium Bldg., 121 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________
Confidentiality Notice: This is a letter for confirmation. If the mentioned third party is your business partner or distributor in China 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.

How should I reply? sounds like a scam, but i don't see how they can scam me...

It seems the domain in the email does not resolve
and the whois email goes to a parked page.

just ignore?

CIVMatt · 05-13-2008, 07:29 AM

Reply like this:

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knightdown · 05-13-2008, 07:38 AM

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MattO · 05-13-2008, 07:39 AM

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JamesK · 05-13-2008, 07:40 AM

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Turf · 05-13-2008, 07:42 AM

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StuartD · 05-13-2008, 07:49 AM

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LAJ · 05-13-2008, 08:25 AM

I got the same email too... twice.

Delete, delete.

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