Haven't received one of these before...

...and, you guessed it, it's a SCAM:

Dear Sir or Madam,

We are a domain name registration center in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On June. 15,2009 we received a formal application from a company in your country who is applying to register "www.gliderpilotregiment.hk" and several other domains, using “gliderpilotregiment ” as the Internet keyword. After investigation,we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, and in order to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we inform you and would like to know your ideas, if you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company's registration, looking forward to your reply.​

thanks for your understanding and cooperation.​

Kind Regards, ​

Brook Zeng


The company's called HK NSC. From researching on the Net the email, under various guises, has been going round for some time. Be aware if you own a domain name.

Steve W.
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GPRegt,

I had a real problem with this when I was seeking roommates... I had posted my profile on roommates.com, and would receive random feedback from scam artists from Africa. They wanted to send a check with more than enough money on it... I go cash it, take out the money for the security deposit and first month's rent. Then send the remaining funds back via Western Union... Fishy and the work of a true scam artist. I know, a little different than your situation, but still frustrating!

 

What I want to know is, who gets that offer and is like, "Hells YES send a check, Blickbllick" then gets said check, and cashes it? Someone who never does any real business with a bank, thats who. You might as well get a t-shirt printed up that reads, "Yes in fact, I AM a giant anus who wants to give you all my money"

 

drifter,

I absolutely agree! But remember, some people fall into the "too good to be true" mentality more than they think... and get burned ever time. I'll be honest, I've adopted this statement before. Not in this instance, but other things. If anything, this thread will open some eyes to the threat of scammers and swindlers!!

Nav

 

I remember reading, though I can't remember if it was the Detroit Freep or the Knoxville News...a town's banker (exact term escapes me at the moment) fell for this crap. He did it once with his own money and it worked out so he decided to do it again with a big chuck of the towns scratch....FAIL! He's doing hard time.

 

Lou, you bring up a good point as well... how this could affect elderly. Especially when you get older, people/family try and take advantage of the funds due to the elderly and their decrease in mentality. Scary thought... but very true

Mark

 

I think I have that shirt in stock - you know,,,,,,the anus one I should send him one

 

I tell them in less than flowery language-to move along--they usually do ;-)) I only had one reply to me a second time--once ;-)) "It" he/she??? but in their case-I prefer "it" actually replied to me that I was going o be arrested for cursing out a Barrister-to which I kindly replied using the same flowery language that I had used with my first reply. Needless to say-that Jack-m apes-didn't reply for a third go around.

 

You guys reminded me of a "funny" that happened back in the fifties, I was too young to know of it in "real time", but my Dad laughed about it when Winnebago came back onto the market as a Motorcoach manufacturing company. They originally "failed", or got so weak they had to re-organize in the fifties when they were just building camping trailers, but not motor homes. My Grandpa had registered his livestock brand so he could sell both cattle and horses both intra and interstate. His brand was a "Flying W" which looks sort of like this but with the "wings" attached to the W’s serifs.
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This is still our family brand, and as long as we continue to pay the "update fee" when required it will remain so.

At any rate, in the mid-fifties he was driving with a friend when they saw a new Winnebago travel trailer sitting in a parking lot, and Gramps told his bud that looked like it was his trailer, since it had his brand on it. And they both laughed and let it go. However that guy’s brother-in-law was a lawyer and when he heard about the Winnebago he got hold of Grampa and told him to "sue" Winnebago for trademark violations. Grandpa told him to go ahead and try but not to spend any money on the deal, since he didn’t want anything really.

Anyhoooo, O’Brian (the lawyer) sent Winnebago a letter with a copy of the livestock brand registration from the late 1930s, and Winnebago offered an out of court settlement to avoid the expense. Grandpa got a new Winnebago travel trailer, and $5000. After the lawyer took his cut, Grandpa bought a new Pontiac to pull it around with.

After Grampa died in 1959, my Dad used that Winnebago as a trade-in on a slide in Snowy Mountain camper that slept the whole family (6), and mounted it on a ¾ ton Chevy for our "camping" trips. It was on one of these trips that Dad saw the first Winnebago motorcoach and told me the story. His kicker thought was that his Dad should have set up a "per use" charge on the brand, and the family would still probably be collecting "royalties" today.

Here is a pic of one of those early Winnebago travel trailers.

 

that things tiny and jeese why do people have to scam god ****

 

Hi Clint-you reminded me of a Family story. Of course most everyone here has heard of the Soft drink--Dr. Pepper ;-))

Well, the people who raised my Father, Brother and Sister, were 50% owners in the Company. Well, my Foster Grandmother-was Sisters with someone who co-owned that 50% of the Company. Well, due to some rift in their family-the other half got the Dr. Pepper Company-and my Foster Grandmothers side got reoyally screwed out of it. Had her side still had ownership--i'd be working in the "family" business and probably would be a multi-millionnaire today.