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My mate has this site http://www.britisharmedforces.org/
He just got this email (below). Makes me nervous for some reason. Why would a chinese outfit want a domain with britisharmedforces in it ?
Thoughts. Should he respond, ignore report to the Army etc.
Rt
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Subj: Fw: Notice of Intellectual Property-Trademark Name
Dear Manager:
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Anhui, China. On December,7th,2010, We received QUNDI Company's application that they are registering the name "britisharmedforces" as their Internet Trademark and "britisharmedforces.cn","britisharmedforces.com.cn" ,"britisharmedforces.asia"domain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!
Kind regards
Angela Zhang
Anhui Office (Head Office)
Room 1008 Shenhui Building
Haitian Road, Huli Anhui, China
Office: +86 0553 4994789
Fax: +86 0553 4994789
web: rg-net.org
web: www.rg-net.org
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It's a scam to get him to buy those domain names.
scam 100%
what they said^^^
Ta
Thought so. Just needed the hand held a bit.
I had exactly the same thing for a small business and domain name that I own.
Like you, I was fairly sure it was a scam but not 100% so I emailed them and actually entered into a bit of correspondence regarding it. it soon became even more glaringly obvious that it was a scam.
I did nothing and sure enough if you check now no other, similar, domains have been registered.
Another scam
Praveen, you get full marks for chutzpah. But I'm afraid I've reported you to the authorities.
i had the same exactly
deleted it