[Hidden-tech] "Notice of Internet Intellectual Property" messages from China?

[James Triplett]

An old classic scam, it was very popular a few years ago.
We used to see hundreds of these daily; someone must have started
doing it again.

It's a nice easy way for them to sell useless domain names.

Do you really need  {yourname}.cn or {yourname}.kz or one of the other
hundred or so Top Level Domains?
 
On (05/08/13 11:39), all at pinehurstpictures.com wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:39:13 -0700
> From: all at pinehurstpictures.com
> To: gsethkramer at comcast.net, hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] "Notice of Internet Intellectual Property"
>  messages from China?
> 
>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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> 
> I would be very cautious. What exactly do they want? If they did not say so, I'd just ignore it. 
> 
> Rikk
> 
> Pinehurst Pictures & Sound
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:: [Hidden-tech] "Notice of Internet Intellectual Property" messages from China?
> From: Gordon Kramer <gsethkramer at comcast.net>
> Date: Aug 5, 2013 1:27 PM
> To:: "Hidden Tech - posting address" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> CC: 
> 
>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Have any domain owners out there received a message titled something 
> like "Notice of Internet Intellectual Property", claiming to be from a 
> 'China domain name registration center'. We received a message like 
> this, that said someone wanted to register our domain name as their 
> 'internet keyword in China/Asia' and they wanted to 'confirm whether 
> this company is your distributor or business partner' in China or not. 
> We're a non profit organization without any 'business partners' 
> anywhere. Does anyone know whether or not these messages are legitimate? 
> Thank you!
>