• Scam emails of website domain registration

USCCC continues to receive reports from individual companies regarding a scam that is proliferating through email.

Certain small companies have received unsolicited inquiries from a Chinese website domain registration organization claiming that they have received a request from a third party to register a domain name – typically, something very similar to the domain name of the company they are attempting to scam – and upon investigating that third party, have found that they lack the proper documentation to prove ownership of the name/brand. The company asks you to hire them to register your domain name to prevent this third party from stealing your brand; conversely, if you do not respond, they threaten to accept the other company’s claim over the domain name as legitimate.

This is a scam designed to convince you to spend a great deal of money registering the many possible domain names that could be very similar to your company’s legitimate web domain. We have also learned that upon sending them the money, the “registration organization” no longer responds to any attempts made to contact them. Our advice is to ignore this mass mailing scam, and it should discontinue.

For further information regarding scams and specific companies, please contact our office at info@usccc.org or 312-368-9911.