Re: {Disarmed} [gnso-frn-dt] so here's a new scam -- just started a few weeks ago

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mikey

We (Blacknight) get these kind of emails practically every single day. A lot of 
them are obviously mined from whois, as they hit an "internal" email alias that 
is not used by any human beings.
The funny thing is that more than once they've advertised domain names that had 
completely dropped and were available for registration :)

Michele

On 7 Jan 2012, at 14:23, Mike O'Connor wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> so the first one was just weird, but this is the third.  so i guess it's a 
> trend.  kindof a variant of the TLD-slamming scam.
> 
> these guys stick a dash into one of my names and then try to sell it to me.  
> i'll probably get about 4 attempts on this one, just like the ones for 
> ca-fes.com and shel-ter.com.
> 
> they *had* to get this info from WHOIS -- the email address they used is only 
> published there…  so it's a scripting thing against the WHOIS database.
> 
> mikey
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: "Domain Notification" <domaininfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: January 7, 2012 8:04:23 AM CST
>> To: "O'Connor, Mike and Marcie" 
>> Subject: end-paper.com
>> 
>> Do not miss acquiring MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from 
>> "criandoarte.com" claiming to be end-paper.com
>> 
>> Dear O'Connor, Mike and Marcie,
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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>> http://criandoarte.com/4700935yevuki-LAG
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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