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  1. 21st March 2017, 07:18 PM #46
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    A number of years ago my mum's golf club received a letter of demand from one of those international telex directory people. ie pay up or we'll take you to court.
    The club secretary had mistakenly agreed to an entry thinking it was a recurring bill - dodgy as hell

    Anyway I drafted a response essentially suggesting that the local courts were in Adelaide and we were sure that the various Australian Authorities would be very happy if the firm instituted action and thereby agreeing to submit to Australian Jurisdiction.

    The golf club never heard another word.
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  3. 21st March 2017, 07:43 PM #47
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    Quote Originally Posted by rrich View Post
    SCAM E-Mails. I don't get too many of them anymore.

    I got one that wanted my phone number and address. I responded with the address and phone number of the Los Angeles FBI office. I'm sure that the idiot called the FBI office from somewhere in Africa. For about a month I got threatening E-Mails from the idiot with FBI logos but with grammar and spelling errors.

    Now I'll get one Nigerian Prince scam every six months or so.
    I give them the front desk number for the Australian Federal Police. I had one guy email back saying that he had tried my number but "it appeared to be wrong"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by doug3030 View Post
    it would never work because the number of calls to the embassy would be so high the only way they could handle it would be to outsource their switchboard to a call centre in india.

    rofl!!!!!!
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    Just received this from a Mr Jim Bing

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    Dear CEO,
    (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)
    We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
    We received an application from Huayi Ltd on April 30, 2017. They want to register " offcut " as their Internet Keyword and " offcut .cn "、" offcut .com.cn " 、" offcut .net.cn "、" offcut .org.cn " 、" offcut .asia " domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " offcut " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?

    Best Regards,
    Jim | Service Manager
    Asia Registration (Head Office)
    8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, Shanghai 201105, China
    Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823
    Web: www(dot)asiaregistration(dot)org
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker View Post
    Just received this from a Mr Jim Bing...
    I know of another person, a well-known retired sportsperson now running a large business who also got that same email, just different domain names the other day. This confirms it is a hoax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doug3030 View Post
    This confirms it is a hoax.
    It sure is, known as an Domain name application scam.

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