Michael Roebuck's Blog

Most of us by now have received some sort of Fax or Mail Spam regarding the renewal of domain names. Back in April, 2006, my friend Karl Ribas wrote an article about SEO Fax Spam.

I received another form of this the other week and wanted to see how many others received the same thing. This one was actually fairly legitimate looking from an overseas company claiming to be the "Central Registration Service" and includes bank details to send your funds. And the funds are HIGH! They want $966 to renew a domain. I tried going to the website to check them out but the URL didn't work.

I can see this slipping through at around $30, but to be listed at $966 is ludicrous. I can't imagine many people paid this but I'm sure enough have to make this worthwhile.

Also, check out the last paragraph on the back. What's this about charitable donations? Isn't this fraud?

How many of you have received this letter? I've only received one, but it would be interesting to see what other kinds of domain fraud is running around.

Labels: fax, fraud, spam