Beware Of The Renewal Scam

[Damion]

Received an email today from reminder@ domainrenewalonline.com for one of my domains at Moniker.com

The email is a scam and they have been operating for a while now - they prey on people that don't know much about domains, etc and aim for businesses mostly.
As in summertime, a lot of replacements are in place and they hope to take advantage of their gullibility.

They try to be all official on their site with logos from high profile companies but don't be fooled, it's all an act and besides that you have your domain registered at Moniker and not with them.

They threaten that the domain must be renewed otherwise the domain will be lost and put on the market.

Here are the details of these scammers:

Registrar: domaininfo.com
Domain Name: domainrenewalonline.com

[Owner of domain name]
Domain Renewal SA
Avenue Louise 65
Brussels, 10050
BE

[Administrative contact]
Domain Renewal SA
Suite 9 Ansuya Estate
Victoria, 000
SC

Email: Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by DomainTools.com
Phone: +32 280 80515
Fax: +32 280 80516

[Technical contact]
Domain Renewal SA
Avenue Louise 65
Brussels, 10050
BE

Email: Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by DomainTools.com
Phone: +32 280 80515
Fax: null

Record created: 24 APR 2007
Record last changed: 31 JUL 2007
Record expires: 24 APR 2010

Name servers according to DNS:
ns2.svip.net.
ns3.svip.net.
ns.svip.net.

You have been warned!

 

[AzN]

Yeah I got a bunch of those and my names doesn't even expire for another 6 months.

 

[domainitrix]

Thanks for this post.

How do these people get the e-mail address in the first place?
I need to be careful.

 

[dhscott]

How do these people get the e-mail address in the first place?
I need to be careful.

They get it from your whois information.

 

[Kate]

I just contacted their processor Multicards via fax and invite you to do the same.
PDF fax: http://www.mediafire.com/?30ppbe9xmgq
Let's bring down these scammers