Be careful of how people might steal your domains

[Varchar]

My ISP just informed me that they have received the following email which I never send out. Someone is imitating me and try to trick my ISP to set up email forwarding. If this is done, people will be able to steal my domains by transferring them out. Beware!!

Kawing

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Hello Dear,


Thanks for nice services and support,

I'm tried many time to set mail forwarding for my email
account, but page will not load after click on Submit
button for set mail forwarding !!!
Tried to set: [email protected] forward to >> [email protected]
Also i do not want save local copy! and just forwarder.
So, Please check it and try to set this mail
forwarding ....and send me note when you have done it.

Best Regards,
Kawing Chiu

 

[Devil Dog]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[BidNo]

Scary, thanks.

Cheers,
BidNo

 

[draggar]

Thank god your ISP is on the ball with that - it could have been a mess for you if they weren't (and a mess for them!).

Normally they go after people who use free email services (Gmail, Yahoo, etc..) but this is the first that I've seen where they go after an ISP email.

Another reason to have a domain to use for registrar contact.

 

[DomainsInc]

why do these thieves always seem to have bad english?

 

[draggar]

Because chances are English isn't their primary language?

 

[Sonny Banks]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Andrew Shaw]

This is the same guy that stole all those premium names. The thread that was going around the last few weeks... The same guy that made the website selling the stolen names.

 

[stewie]

thx for headsup :yo:

 

[simon]

these thieves are trying basically all kind of ways so the best suggestion would be to keep checking your premium domains periodically

 

[NetworkMsia]

that sure is one very good ISP.

 

[katherine]

I use my own domain names for E-mail. I don't want to depend on gmail or my ISP.

 

[DomainsInc]

I use my own domain names for E-mail. I don't want to depend on gmail or my ISP.

even still, those domains have to be hosted somewhere.

 

[katherine]

even still, those domains have to be hosted somewhere.

Yes, I host them
But you have a good point. You must be paranoid in business