Tuesday, July 19, 2011

[californiadisasters] OT, but important: domain registration scam

For all of us who have an Internet domain registered: Be aware that there's
an apparently new form of scam, where the domain registrant receives a
message warning of immanent expiration of his/her/their domain.

The one I received was very plain, and the return address was a ymail.com
address; pretty transparent.

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!

Go to your domain registrar (e.g. GoDaddy) where you signed up, and check
the status of your registration, and if it needs attending to, do it there,
not through the email.

BTW/FYI: Anybody in the world can see your registration by running a whois
query, so harvesting the domain name and your email address is easy.

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