discuss Email demanding my domain name. Real or Scam?

[LaunchUp.com]

Subject: Letter of Demand(domain name)

I understand that they are some legitimate situations where a person or company may want their name and go after it legally or simply ask.
I got a email from someone claiming to be a lawyer representing someone and attached is general letter of demand. the layers email is custom but has no website....

But I also, realized how easy it for a scammer to send someone this and get their name easy using fear tactic. I'm not saying this is a scam though but i see how it can easily be one.

Has anyone had any history with these kind of emails?

 

[Joe N]

Legally (or even professionally) speaking, I don't think email would be the typical method of contact if this were a legitimate request. If you were to get a legit sounding phone call or papers mailed to you, I'd be much more inclined to believe it.

 

[sofiapartner]

I receive letters

 

[Kate]

What are the assertions made in the letter ? Has the lawyer fully identified himself ? Is there a verifiable phone number you can call back ?
Scams are always possible.
Example: Internet domain name outlaw faces 20 years in federal prison

 

[LaunchUp.com]

What are the assertions made in the letter ? Has the lawyer fully identified himself ? Is there a verifiable phone number you can call back ?
Scams are always possible.
Example: Internet domain name outlaw faces 20 years in federal prison

The phone number is available...but it only rings non stop
the email website was non existent but now it has a page saying:
Soon to be the new home of...
www.morganlaw.co.za

The name is one of the only one i own of someones name.. who is a runner i like from south Africa..
I follow track and field alot so it's not a name i sell..(fan purposes only). If it's legit then I told them they can have it. But I know these places have all sorts of scams originating.

I can forward you the email: send me your email(pm)

 

[Recons.Com]

Subject: Letter of Demand(domain name)

I understand that they are some legitimate situations where a person or company may want their name and go after it legally or simply ask.
I got a email from someone claiming to be a lawyer representing someone and attached is general letter of demand. the layers email is custom but has no website....

But I also, realized how easy it for a scammer to send someone this and get their name easy using fear tactic. I'm not saying this is a scam though but i see how it can easily be one.

Has anyone had any history with these kind of emails?

Well, if the letter were from a lawyer, it probably would not be called "letter of demand". Normally it would be cease and desist letter.

 

[mhdoc]

Every time you respond to an email like this you give them potentially useful information that may help them take the name. You prove they have a valid email address for you. You prove you got and read the email.

I would not respond unless and until I received something with the signature of a judge. In the USA that would mean a process server showing up at my residence with legal papers.

Lawyers write letters all the time. They mean nothing without court action.