Firm tries to emulate Chinese TM domain scam, fails miserably
The trademark domain name scam is one of the oldest in the book.
A registrar from China emails you, saying that someone is trying to register domain names very similar to your trademark or existing domain names. They’re checking with you as a courtesy to see if you’d like to register the domains first.
Although it might seem like a kind gesture, it’s all a lie. They’re trying to get you to register domain names through them.
Now a Brazil firm is apparently trying the same tack. But it hasn’t figured out how to mail merge similar domain names in its spam. Here’s the message I just got:
Hello,
We have identified domain registration attempts that you by now have in other extensions.
Avoid the loss of these domain:
YOURDOMAIN.NET
YOURDOMAIN.COM
YOURDOMAIN.CC
YOURDOMAIN.TV
YOURDOMAIN.NAMECheck availability on our website and register now: registracom.com
Grateful for your attention,
Team / Registracom
YourDomains.com? Nice try.
There’s no record of an ICANN Accredited registrar with the name RegistraCom.
