Normally we don’t post a blog announcement about the various scams going around because, let’s face it, there are just too many. But in this case, we’re making an exception because this is a targeted scam aimed directly at domain owners – aka Our Clients. We’ve received more than a couple of calls from users today regarding emails that tell them they need to “register” their domain again quickly, so we thought a quick post and sample would be helpful.

Needless to say, this is a scam (any time you get an email with warnings in 20pt bold, it’s a good time to check your wallet), but it’s not the usual sort of domain-slamming we’ve seen in the past. These guys are trying to trick people into ‘registering’ with a search engine (an un-named one).

The payment links (disabled below) go to payment sites that have no company name and simply say ‘registration’. As you might imagine, we’re not thrilled to see this sort of behaviour, and we wanted to make sure nobody got tricked into a non-refundable ‘registration’ by these jokers.

Regards

easyDNS Support

The email looks like this :