Re: [californiadisasters] OT, but important: domain registration scam

Exactly; no legit domain registrar would be sending renewal notices from a
free Webmail domain. That alone screams, "BOGUS!".

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Young" <mdeanm@gmail.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] OT, but important: domain registration
scam

you do know that ymail.com is one of Yahoo's new email.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Joann Lavis <joalis76@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> sorry guys that was not suppose to go here.
>
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> To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> From: joalis76@hotmail.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:46:21 -0700
> Subject: RE: [californiadisasters] OT, but important: domain registration
> scam
>
>
>
> by the way tip top sends me a email after they have renewed ours so no
> worries on this..
>
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> To: USDisasters@yahoogroups.com; socalscan@yahoogroups.com;
> SoCalFire@yahoogroups.com; californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
> From: kef413@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:51:42 -0700
> Subject: [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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>

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