A couple of days a phishing attack caused tons of e-mails appearing to come from Enom.com to go out to domain owners telling them they were about to lose a domain because of inaccurate whois information.
Today we started receiving the same type of phishing message from a forged NetworkSolutions site.
Please be careful about all such e-mails as the crooks seem to be on the domain channel right now.
Here is the message:
“””””Dear Network Solutions Customer,
We recently notified you that the registration period for your Network Solutions domain name had expired. As a benefit of having previously registered a domain name(s) with Network Solutions, you are eligible to receive a percentage of the net proceeds that were generated from the renewal and transfer of the domain name you chose not to renew. Since you have chosen not to renew the domain name listed below during the applicable grace period, we were successful in securing a backorder for this domain name on your behalf and it has been transferred to another party in accordance with the Service Agreement.
Renew your domain now – Here is where the link is in the letter but deleted here.
You must click on the following link, enter your domain name, and confirm your contact information in order to claim these funds. If your contact information is not correct, you must enter Account Manager and make the appropriate changes prior to clicking “submit” from the confirmation screen. If you do not do this, you will be confirming inaccurate information and will not receive any payment. Checks will only be made payable and mailed to the Account Holder of record.
Sincerely,
Network SolutionsŽ Customer Support””””
Damir says
Be Smart and be informed – do NOT open emails from UNKNOWN senders.
Stay safe
Tony says
Mike,
I keep getting transfer requests from Tucows to transfer over a domain I had acquired from Snapnames. I looked up the owner of the Tucows account and emailed requesting they stop sending the transfer requests or do it the normal route of purchasing the domain from me. I got back a threatening email about IP rights etc. The company is based in the UK.
Can you email me so I can forward you that threat. I want to make sure I’m not doing something wrong and would like your opinion on what this party is trying to do.