domain scam

Krebs on Security - read more If you’ve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you’ve received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services. In reality, these misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless...

Krebs on Security - read more If you’ve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you’ve received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services. In reality, these misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (regulator) to shut down fraudulent investment advertisements and websites / domains just 24 hours after they appear online. … alongside our ongoing reactive work, we have ratcheted up our proactive monitoring of the internet with a dragnet approach with the...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (regulator) to shut down fraudulent investment advertisements and websites / domains just 24 hours after they appear online. … alongside our ongoing reactive work, we have ratcheted up our proactive monitoring of the internet with a dragnet approach with the...

Dark.fail includes links to dark web markets. A scammer tricked a domain registrar into transferring ownership of the domain with a fake document. A scammer used a fake court order to convince a domain registrar to transfer ownership of a domain that lists dark web drug markets, and then used...

Dark.fail includes links to dark web markets. A scammer tricked a domain registrar into transferring ownership of the domain with a fake document. A scammer used a fake court order to convince a domain registrar to transfer ownership of a domain that lists dark web drug markets, and then used...

The case of rareble[.]com is quite similar to the rarbile[.]com or the others discussed in the above section. The domain looks similar to rarible[.]com and is a typosquatting scam. What differs is the scam we end up at. Unlike the previous ones, this one leads users to a fake sweepstakes/ gift...

The case of rareble[.]com is quite similar to the rarbile[.]com or the others discussed in the above section. The domain looks similar to rarible[.]com and is a typosquatting scam. What differs is the scam we end up at. Unlike the previous ones, this one leads users to a fake sweepstakes/ gift...

Why is Google making it so easy for scammers? For just £96 we set up an online investment con - just like the ones that cost victims £135m last year best2invest is a fake firm set up by us to flog 'high returns on fixed rate bonds' We paid £95.88 to promote it under search terms such as 'secure...

Why is Google making it so easy for scammers? For just £96 we set up an online investment con - just like the ones that cost victims £135m last year best2invest is a fake firm set up by us to flog 'high returns on fixed rate bonds' We paid £95.88 to promote it under search terms such as 'secure...

In this week's Top Topics, a domain investor announced their latest blockbuster sale, a $55,025 payday from a three-year-old hand registration. Elsewhere, a domainer shares their story of being a victim of a domain scam, and do you leave your WHOIS data public? Elsewhere, investors pay tribute...

In this week's Top Topics, a domain investor announced their latest blockbuster sale, a $55,025 payday from a three-year-old hand registration. Elsewhere, a domainer shares their story of being a victim of a domain scam, and do you leave your WHOIS data public? Elsewhere, investors pay tribute...

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This week, Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly reported that VE Interactive of London had acquired the domain VE.com. The seller was Aron Meydstedt of XF Investments and Heritage Auctions. I reached out to Aron this week to ask about the sale, and whilst he confirmed the domain had sold, the details are...

This week, Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly reported that VE Interactive of London had acquired the domain VE.com. The seller was Aron Meydstedt of XF Investments and Heritage Auctions. I reached out to Aron this week to ask about the sale, and whilst he confirmed the domain had sold, the details are...

Hi, I just received this: " Dear CEO, (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent, Thanks) We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. We received an application from...

Hi, I just received this: " Dear CEO, (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent, Thanks) We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. We received an application from...

I wanted to spread the word about this, as it is definitely a scam, and have googled it as such, and found many other people getting this too! This is the email I received this morning: Hi there (My Full Name), Domain Name: xxxxx..com (Account #64232) This email is being sent out to you...

I wanted to spread the word about this, as it is definitely a scam, and have googled it as such, and found many other people getting this too! This is the email I received this morning: Hi there (My Full Name), Domain Name: xxxxx..com (Account #64232) This email is being sent out to you...