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rumblepup: Chinese Domain Name Fraud

  • Cat · 1 year ago
    Thanks for writing this, it gave me a good laugh!! I got the same email today. I loved your answers!
  • goldfries · 1 year ago
    Oh hey, I got some strange E-mail today and did a little search on Google and one thing lead to another and HERE AM I.

    :D Here's what I got........

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    Dear goldfries:


    We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.



    We have received an application formally,one company named "Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd" applies for the domain names(www.goldfries.cn www.goldfries.com.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(goldfries) on the internet November 28, 2008. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.


    we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.



    Kind Regards,


    Hairry Zhu
    Tel: +86-21-62416070
    Fax: +86-21-62597835
    Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
    Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
    website: www.chooke.com.cn

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    The one that I thought to be damn funny was..........Hairry Zhu. haha. Hi Hair-ry. Zhu could be translated to pig in Chinese. :P
  • David Pritzker · 1 year ago
    I got the same letter from mr Hairry Zhu. Here it reads below:



    Dear Lock It Up Safe (www.lockitupsafe.com)



    Thanks for your letter.According to our investigation, Shengteng company is a domain name investment company.They must want to get some profits from registering your company's domain names.As domain name registrar,we are obligated to inform the matter with you.If you think these domain names are useful for your company or it will take some bad effect after being grabbed, we can help your company dispute these domain names back and register for your company,you can assist us, and operate according to the following procedures:



    1.Fill in the application form which contains the cost of registration, send the form back.

    2.We will cancel the registration of the third party after receiving your application form.And we will help you to register these domain names and internet keyword(Internet brand) under the name of your company.

    3.We will send an invoice to you.

    4.We will finish your registration completely after receiving the payment. And send the certificates to you within 15 workdays.



    Attached you will find the application form, pls check,you can choose domains you need. Wishing to confirm your decision, If you have any questions, pls feel free to contact us.



    Kind Regards,


    Hairry Zhu
    Tel: +86-21-62416070
    Fax: +86-21-62597835
    Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
    Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
    website: www.chooke.com.cn


    What a scam.. I googled them and found a bunch of scam warnings like the one posted below.. take a look

    http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-n...
  • Gonzague · 1 year ago
    Ahaha that was funny :D

    some have no doubts about which methods they can use to make money ^^
  • Teriss · 12 months ago
    That was way too funny but I bet they still don't get it.
    Teriss on Twitter
  • christina · 10 months ago
    got these the past couple of days:

    From: tingle.liu [mailto:tingle.liu@chooke.com.cn]
    Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:49 PM
    To: sales
    Subject:xxxxxxxx for domain name
    Dear xxxxxxxx
    We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
    We have received an application formally,one company named "Tengfeng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd" applies for the domain names(www.xxxxxxxxx.com.cn www.xxxxxxxx.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(xxxxxx) on the internet Feb25, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
    we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
    Kind Regards,
    Tingle.liu
    Tel: +86-21-62416070
    Fax: +86-21-62597835
    Email:tingle.liu@chooke.com.cn
    Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
    website:www.chooke.com.cn
    2nd email i received
    Dear xxxxxxx ,
    You must know Domain name takes open registration(Unrestricted), this is international domain name registration rule. So everyone has right to register them(available domains). As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application. So inform your company to protect your interest. But as the
    company whose trademarks relate to the applied domains, you will get the priority to register these domain names.
    If you have business in asia or you want to develop business in asia in the near future, so I think these domain names are very important for you! Of course,
    each company has their own idea. If you don't think their application will affect your company, you can give up, we will finish their registration. But if you think
    these domain names are useful for your company, we can send an application form to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only
    way to prevent domain name grab. Pls let us know your decision soon, so that we can handle the next step.
  • Nayati · 10 months ago
    Thanks for writing this. I received exactly the same email two days ago and got the exactly same reply that you get. I searched on the net and landed on your site. Now I'll just reply them with a link of your site to them. ;)
  • ScottJ · 9 months ago
    Classic, excellent post, I wonder what other ways we can waste their time even more, we keep getting these emails to our directors on our website and it is a right pain in the a**e.

    Got another one today from: Star Zhu star.zhu@skbyte.com, titled "Urgent Trademark Confirmation. ( TO CEO )"

    I tempted to ask them for a full written proposal with payment details just to wind them up !
  • Kakasab · 8 months ago
    Hmmm....... today i got the same

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    We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.

    We have received an application formally,one company named "Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd" applies for the domain names(www.kakasab.com.cn www.kakasab.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(kakasab) on the internet April 09, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.

    we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.


    Kind Regards,

    Hairry Zhu
    Tel: +86-21-62416070
    Fax: +86-21-62597835
    Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
    Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
    website: www.chooke.com.cn
  • blueskyguy · 8 months ago
    Dealt with them today, here's mine:

    Wow, that's scary. I need to secure those domains ASAP. And I don't want to stop there.

    Would I be able to have you register additional "blueskyheart" domains in addition to the list you provided? I was thinking of a few, such as:

    blueskyheartYouDirtyLittleScammer.cn
    blueskyheartYouveBeenAVeryNaughtyGirl.tw
    blueskyheartNoGoAway.hk
    blueskyheartAndThinkAboutYourKarma.in

    I would be willing to pay one hundred and eleventy billion dollars for securing the rights to these domains. I hope you don't mind Swiss frankfurters, as most of my fortune is tied up in groucho marks.

    Please just tell me where I can send my money, it's burning a hole in my fanny pack!

    Spank you very much,
    Layne Karkrooch Esq.
  • blueskyguy · 8 months ago
    And a quick update:

    On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Meryl wrote:

    Layne,

    According to your reply, we know your choice. So we will finish the registration of Ruty Holdings Ltd ASAP. If there are some conflicts on the internet with Ruty Holdings Ltd in future, we will not be involved with it. In addition, I am very thank you for your cooperation for our work. Have a nice day!

    Best Regards
    Meryl Yue

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    Dear Meryl,

    OK, I hear you...you drive a hard bargain. I'll make it TWO hundred and eleventy billion smackeroos and I'll throw in Thailand. (You guys still want that, right?)

    Bestiality Yours,
    Loyne Kangaroo
  • rumblepup · 8 months ago
    @blueskyguy - now that's just comedy. I'll pitch in another 6 billion worth of snickers wrappers AND send then one of the Japanese islands they tried to knab when ol Kublia was the chief, and they just HAVE to go for that one.
  • Hairry Zhu · 7 months ago
    Rumblepup -

    So sorry to trouble you! You very smart! Me, also. Please notice my professional internet services do not sell domain names. It very creative. It pays good for my family and pig. I persuade people not so smart to buy their own domain names with international suffixes. You be very surprised how smart you are as most people are not so smart. This is good business. My operations are now international! If you like, apply on line and you can work from home and make 5,000 American dollars a week! My businesses have need for intellectual like you. Please consider employment. If you achieve goals (I believe you will) , I happy to make you partner!

    Best Regards!

    Hairry Zhu
    Tel: +86-21-62416070
    Fax: +86-21-62597835
    Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.com.cn
    Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
    website: www.chooke.com.cn
  • rumblepup · 7 months ago
    Oh Hairry. What can I say? Sometimes my not so smartness gets the better of me. Even though your powers of persuasion are very difficult to ignore, but ignore I must. Thank for the kind offer. 5000 a week you say? That's killer.
  • I Know FuManChu · 6 months ago
    I today received one of these spams and answered as below.

    Dear Hairy Cunt,
    Thank you for lettng me know about this and I much appleciate this useful inflammation of the haemmoroids. I must tell you that I was in China last
    year as a very honorable visitor of Hong Kong Phooey himself who incidentally wished me a velly melly clistmas my bicycle you and I asked if he needed fries with
    that. I had to go there because my shaved lobster had a wheel missing and needed an eyewash of bandicoot urine because the shaving soap was stinging the poor little
    thing.

    I am at pains to make a decision because at this moment I am teaching my kidneys to rollerskate and my toenails are currently learning to play an assortment of classic
    woodwind instruments. Maybe one day we can get together for a long session of innapropriate touching and share an old delicacy from my homeland, fried water on
    toast with a rich creamy topping of twice sauted crusty jism stains scraped from out of the front of a habitual masturbators underwear.

    I am sure by now that you see my predicament and I am not talking about my male appendage here either. You see I was sat on the chod bin contemplating this so hard
    that my bowels nearly ruptured while reading a copy of the reader's digest. and it then became apparent to me, you know like one of those Eureka moments, you know Eureka
    right?, nice guy, used to go to school with him but anyway I digress. As I was saying before you got me going on a tangent you naughty boy that I suddenly realised that I
    was fiscally bereft although we may be able to work something out here, maybe you could float me a loan?

    I will completely understand if you say no because afterall you don't really know me although I do feel like I may be falling in love with you even though I have never even
    experienced a homosexual thought before until you came along Hairy, you have truly touched my heart and maybe we can discuss the touching of other bodily parts as well.

    Anyway I have a very close friend in Nigeria, well actually he is not so close at all as he lives several thousand miles away and we have never actually met but he is a very nice
    and honest man anyway, even has a barrister working for him. He wrote to me some time ago and confided in me that his father who is the late president of a large oil company
    although I am not sure how he ever made it that far if he was late all the time for board meetings etc but anyway where was I? Oh yes, sorry I became distracted thinking of you
    and had to sneak off and blow my load over a topless picture of Bruce Lee and boy did that feel good, I bet he never even saw that one coming. Anyway Drippi Tampax my very
    good friend from Nigeria inherited some considerable wealth recently and I am talking millions here and he searched the Internet for months for a soulmate to share his good
    fortune with and boy was I pleased that he chose me, I think maybe he found out that I once gave a whole dollar to the Salvation Army mainly though because I never had any
    smaller change.

    I am helping Drippi to collect the money via his barrister, Barrister Yuran Idyut and we are so close to being able to claim this money and I feel sure that if you help out with just another bribe to the banking officials that we could collect this money for Drippi which would help him out, me out and you out, so how about it?

    Maybe we could work something else out and if you like tubgirl maybe we could re-enact that only with me defecating in your mouth for the full price of the domains. I can tell you
    this for sure though, don't ask me to kiss you after that until you have at least brushed your teeth because I have eaten some pretty good curries this week and some very spicy
    Mexican food.

    Please let me know as soon as possible and I hope that this confirms everything to you.

    Yours Sincerely
    Armadillo Frogspawn

    P.S. I hear they make some wonderful growth products in China, maybe you could get me some? I did once try viagra only in my haste I never read the directions properly where it said swallow the pill and wash it down with a glass of water, instead I sucked the pill and ended up with a stiff neck for a week for my troubles.

    Anyway, lots of love to your unmentionables and I would like to impale your rectum right upto your sphincter with my engorged and throbbing manhood, I know this will appeal to you as much as it does me and I can confidently say that if the enlargement pills work that you may be able to take advantage of a special bonus that while I take you anally that I could also whiten your teeth at the same time and it will be on the inside edge which is where the whitening strips never reach. We may need to be careful during this manouevre as one slipup could lead to a brown spot and lump on the back of the neck. Please reply soonest...!!!!! Velly Velly Urgent.


    ----- Original Message -----
    From:
    To:
    Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:33 AM
    Subject: Hairry.zhu@chooke.org.cn


    > Dear potential idiot:
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    > We are Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China. I have something need to confirm with you.
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    > We have received an application formally,one company named "Shengteng (China) Investment Co.,Ltd" applies for the domain names(www.potentialidiot.com.cn www.potentialidiot.asia etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(potentialidiot) on the internet Jun 19, 2009. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
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    > we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.
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    > Kind Regards,
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    > Hairry Zhu
    > Tel: +86-21-62416070
    > Fax: +86-21-62597835
    > Email: Hairry.zhu@chooke.org.cn
    > Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
    > website: www.chooke.org.cn
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