Comments on: Domain Trademark Scam

By: Shari Voigt

Shari Voigt — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:24:24 +0000

Thank you all for your comments. I’m amazed that this scam is still going on – and was really surprised to be contacted by this company’s legal department today. They ask that I delete this “malicious message” as it’s having a bad effect on their reputation.

So I guess it’s okay for the company to send out false emails to the masses, but no one’s supposed to call them on it.

By: Sofia Baker

Sofia Baker — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:25:57 +0000

Most countries in the third world never respects intellectual property rights. piracy is so rampant in asian countries.~”-

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:56:49 +0000

Yep, still going on, in our case from eddie baker with the following message (included so people end up here), all seems legit at first glance (unusual in itself), with interesting spin of one word searches being registered.

We are a domain name registration center in Hongkong,mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On Aug 20,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword “NAME” and register it as their keyword. After investigation,we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, and in order to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we inform you and would like to know your ideas, if you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration, If you don’t agree the third company to register,

please inform me.looking forward to your reply.thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

By: logic

logic — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:49:43 +0000

i received this email scam twice now and was going to respond.. well im just glad i googled it first! i bet there’s actually a lot of people who fall for it and buy the domians

By: Yiie

Yiie — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:06:45 +0000

I came across this post on Google after receiving a very similar email today, but from someone named ‘Mark Bell’.

Again, can’t believe this scame is still going around.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:51:59 +0000

Wow…. can you guys believe that this scam is still active and going on. I was contacted about my domain http://www.justvr.com but from a different company said to be located in Hong Kong called: TradmarkInfo H.K. Company LTD. After searching around I quickly associated it with a similar scam… them spammers… hate them!

By: Marlon Walcott

Marlon Walcott — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:19:01 +0000

I also received this email and I couldn’t tell if it was fake or not but a quick search brought me here and to other sites.

Spammers are getting more effective, normally I don’t have to bat an eye lash before clicking delete.

By: James Healey

James Healey — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:31:03 +0000

I received that email as well, and my trademark attorney assured me that it was a scam. It's really scary how effective such scams are....people can be so vulnerable whenever you insert any legal mumbo-jumbo into an email. Sad but true.