Search engine registration scam / 1-716-328-1722

We received the following to our domain registrant contact address (listed in WHOIS) from Domain Services <notice@domainnotices666.com>:

Attention: Important Notice , DOMAIN SERVICE NOTICE
Domain Name: MY-DOMAIN-HERE

Complete and return by fax to:
1-716-328-1722

ATT: MY-NAME-HERE
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT
MY-NAME-HERE
MY-EMAIL-HERE
MY-ADDRESS-HERE
WWW.MY-DOMAIN-HERE
Please ensure that your contact information is correct or make the necessary changes above

Requested Reply Before
November 23,2015

PART I: REVIEW SOLICITATION

Attn: MY-NAME-HERE
As a courtesy to domain name holders, we are sending you this notification for your business Domain name search engine registration. This letter is to inform you that it’s time to send in your registration and save.

Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web.

Privatization allows the consumer a choice when registering. Search engine subscription includes domain name search engine submission. You are under no obligation to pay the amounts stated below unless you accept this offer. Do not discard, this notice is not an invoice it is a courtesy reminder to register your domain name search engine listing so your customers can locate you on the web.

This Notice for: WWW.MY-DOMAIN-HERE will expire on November 23,2015 Act today!

Select Term:

[ ] 1 year 11/23/2015 – 11/23/2016 $75.00
[ ] 2 year 11/23/2015 – 11/23/2017 $119.00
[ ] 5 year 11/23/2015 – 11/23/2020 $199.00
[ ] 10 year -Most Recommended- 11/23/2015 – 11/23/2025 $295.00
[ ] Lifetime (NEW!) Limited time offer – Best value! Lifetime $499.00

Today’s Date: _____________________ Signature: _____________________

Payment by Credit Card
Select the term above, then return by fax: 1-716-328-1722

MY-DOMAIN-HERE

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By accepting this offer, you agree not to hold DS liable for any part. Note that THIS IS NOT A BILL. This is a solicitation. You are under no obligation to pay the amounts stated unless you accept this offer. The information in this letter contains confidential and/or legally privileged information from the notification processing department of the DS 3501 Jack Northrop Ave. Suite #F9238 Hawthorne, CA 90250 USA, This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) named above. There is no pre-existing relationship between DS and the domain mentioned above. This notice is not in any part associated with a continuation of services for domain registration. Search engine submission is an optional service that you can use as a part of your website optimization and alone may not increase the traffic to your site. If you do not wish to receive further updates from DS reply with Remove to unsubscribe. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that disclosur
e, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents for this letter is strictly prohibited.

If you have received a message like that, ignore it. It’s actually an illegal solicitation, as it’s against the terms of use of WHOIS lookups to use them for spamming, which is what this is.

All it takes for search engines to find you after you register a domain and create a website for it is one public link on a website. There is no need to pay any registration service for it. Besides, if the spammers already found you, you obviously don’t need “search engine registration” 🙂

5 thoughts on “Search engine registration scam / 1-716-328-1722

  1. Us too, but as it didn’t mention our hosting company or the our registration administrator it had the aroma of phish.

  2. Thanks for publishing it. Today I’ve got one too and because of the apperance of personal data I wasn’t shure which meaning this had.- Greetings to Japan.

  3. I got the same scam pitch except his (their) email address is slightly different this time, the number “666” is changed to “686”. And my reply to their email address was rejected as undeliverable.

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