{"id":686,"date":"2020-04-28T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/?p=686"},"modified":"2020-04-28T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:40:27","slug":"fake-emails-from-domain-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/blog\/2020\/04\/28\/fake-emails-from-domain-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Emails from Domain Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been getting so many emails from this company: Domain Service (or whatever company they decide they want to be).<\/p>\n

HOW THEY OPERATE<\/h3>\n

They send out emails to unsuspecting domain name owners. They get the victim’s email addresses from the listed registered owners of different domain names. Then they send out these bogus warnings that their domains will be lost if they do not renew their subscription. They pose as the authorized company of said domain when actually, they have nothing to do with the domain and actually want to steal it from the victim.<\/p>\n

They say they can do it for a huge sum — many times more than the actual cost of the domain name. The victim pays and that’s the last they hear of them.<\/p>\n

If you ever receive an email like this, simply trash it and then delete your Trash content. Better still, report it to the Department of Justice<\/a>. If you want to be sure about the email, contact your website manager or domain register and they can confirm the email’s authenticity.<\/p>\n

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv<\/p>\n

SAMPLE<\/h3>\n

Here’s a sample of one of the emails I received:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Important notice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notice#:<\/strong> 393989<\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> 04\/27\/2020<\/p>\n

Domain Expiration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Domain:<\/strong> [NameOfDomain.com] (whatever your domain is)<\/em><\/p>\n

Expiration date:<\/strong> 05\/05\/2020<\/p>\n

To: [The Victim, Victim’s Company]<\/p>\n

[Victim’s Address]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n
Domain Name:<\/strong><\/td>\nRegistration Period:<\/strong><\/td>\nAmount:<\/strong><\/td>\nTerm:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[NameOfDomain.com]<\/td>\n05\/19\/2020 to 05\/19\/2021<\/td>\n$86.00<\/td>\n1 Year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Secure Online Payment<\/a><\/p>\n

Domain Name: [NameOfDomain.com]<\/p>\n

Attn: [Victim’s Name]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This\u00a0important notification\u00a0notifies you about the notice\u00a0of your domain frtsgv.org optimization submission. The information in this email may contain legally privileged information from the notification processing department of the Registration Office for our traffic generator. We do not register or renew domain names. We are selling traffic generator tools. This information is intended for the use of the individual(s) named above.
\nIf you fail to complete your domain name registration\u00a0frtsgv.org\u00a0search engine optimization service by the expiration date,\u00a0may the dismissal of this search engine optimization domain name notification notice.<\/p>\n

Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

Secure Online Payment<\/a><\/p>\n

to complete your payment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Failure to complete your domain name registration [NameOfDomain.com] search engine optimization service process may make it difficult for customers to find you on the web.<\/p>\n

Act immediately<\/strong><\/p>\n

This domain registration for [ search engine service optimization notification will\u00a0expire 05\/05\/2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’ve recently been getting so many emails from this company: Domain Service (or whatever company they decide they want to be). HOW THEY OPERATE They send out emails to unsuspecting domain name owners. They get the victim’s email addresses from the listed registered owners of different domain names. Then they send out these bogus warnings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,30,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-public-service","category-tech-stuff","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p61fMq-b4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wynkmarketing.com\/wp-wynk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}