Domain Registry Of America / Liberty Names of America
As I’ve warned customers in the past, DO NOT make a payment to renew your domain name through the Domain Registry of America, or ANYONE ELSE for that matter. The letter you received is trying to get you to switch services to them, NOT a bill to protect you from losing your domain name. They are not your provider, but you may mistakenly think they are.
They are under investigation by the FTC and have lost a couple of court battles over this practice of theirs.
A letter I just emailed their sales staff:
Listen up you Scam-holes:
One of my clients (a LAW PROFESSIONAL’S ORGANIZATION) almost switched to you by mistake, until I alerted them to your scam.* I used to getting your crap in my PO Box, but tired of you targeting my clients.* Your bull about not intentionally scamming obviously doesn’t hold water when reasonable people (under definition of law) are misled.
I will be posting information on your scam shortly on our consumer education site, www.GeeksBearingGifts.com, and there’s not a damn thing you’re going to do about it.* Consider yourself served.
Ken Stuczynski
Owner / Lead Web Developer
[EMAIL=master@Kentropolis.com]master@Kentropolis.com[/EMAIL]KENTROPOLIS INTERNET COMMUNITY
http://www.KENTROPOLIS.com
(716) 8xx-1329 / Toll Free 1-866-854-1923
/ PO Box 90, West Seneca, NY 14224 USA
Nigerian Spim
My wife got her first SpIM today. (Yes, she even called it that!)
It was a Nigerian Scam …
chigiokeawelle_esq05: AWELLE VISIONARY CHAMBERS
14, RUE DU BOULVARD
LOME TOGO WEST AFRICA
Email: [email]awellechambers@caramail.com[/email]Attn:Sir,
I am Barrister chigioke Awelle, a solicitor at law.I am
from togo republic in west Africa subregion.
I have an urgent business proposal for you,Could please contact me so
that i can give you the details.
Nigerian Scams
They never go away.
Nigerian Scams
Here are more examples of the Nigerian Scam, and as you can see, the stories are more and more varied with historical circumstances.
But the truth (or lack thereof rather) and modus operandi is the same.
More Games With A Nigerian
Here's another game I played with a Nigerian scam artist right after I got bored with the first one … he didn't threaten me like Kennimoro, but definitely did not read my emails very well …
Games With A Nigerian
These emails were an attempt to explore the scam, and at a certain point, I jumped out.
Notice that they must get endless responses from people, or have very bad English comprehension, or both, as they don't seem to read most of the responses in any detail. Maybe they should work in the Tech Support industry. 😛
Identity Theft Scam Examples
ONLY IN SCAMS does an email ask you to confirm account information for a bank or other account. Pretending to link to eBay or Citibank or wherever and having fake look-alike pages (that are sometimes pretty damn convincing) should always raise a flag.
If a legitamate company wants you to review your information, they will SHOW YOU your “current” information, proving they already have it, and will only ask you to log in the usual way at the site you usually go to. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Don't believe me? Next time you get such an email, put in a fake account username, password whatever, and it wont even notice …
Search Engine Scams
Here are some unrealistic promises to rank your site at the top of major search engines. Some are false advertising, but some are outright scams …
Nigerian Scams
Here are most of the Nigerian Scam emails I have received when it first started to become popular. Most are claiming to be from Africa (go figure), but as you will see, they are often pretending to be related to events in the news (9-11, plane crashes, wars, etc.) and have since grown to include posing as people from Iraq and any other country in the world it seems.
Reading these will be fun for some, frustratingly angering for others, or may even bore some to tears, but here they are … scamholes from around the world.
Embarrassed Aolers Need Email Alias!
Can anyone advise me how to help a friend who uses AOL as a primary email account? This user wants to send email from AOL, with an alias that is from another legitimate email account on a domain. The ISP can likely provide an alias that will allow all emails sent to the non-AOL address are forwarded, but when this user sends replies, the AOL address he sends from is what the receiver will get when “reply” is chosen. Further, can this AOL address be removed or prevented from being viewed in the header? By this I mean if a savvy user drills in to view header, will the AOL address be seen even after the solution that you may be prepared to propose?