The Chinese Copyright Domain Name Scam
This scam has been around for decades. Someone writes, claiming that they’ve discovered a copyright issue with your website’s domain in some other country; most often in China.
They attempt to extort money from you to register domains in the other country to protect your own “copyrighted” domain.
Pictured below are examples we received in 2024 and 2025 that were mistakenly sent to NetRaising.
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Phishing Scam: Copyrighted Photos Allegation
NetRaising was recently made aware of a phishing scam that uses the forms on websites to send emails containing deceptive information and malicious links.
The emails come from a person claiming they own certain photos on the organization’s website, and that the organization has violated copyright laws. The emailer may use emotional language and/or threaten to take legal action against the organization.…
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DNS Certificate dot GA Email Scam
One of our clients alerted to this email they received this week. They asked us if it might be a scam and it is. We looked into it and the domain name is registered to a person in Jamaica, the domain points to a server in Russia and while the server is live, only a blank white page (without any…
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Beware of SEO Listing Scams
Two of the common scams to alert your CFO/Accounts Payable person to are the Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Domain Listing Scams.
These scams frequently involve letters and/or emails that look like invoices for ongoing services. The services include things like listing your site with major search engines, improved search engine listings, search engine listing/rating reports, or directory listings. These are…
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Protect Your Domain, Beware of Scams
Your domain name is also called your URL/URI or web address and looks something like www.YourDomainNameHere.org.
Your domain name is likely registered with an ICANN certified registry and some of them publish your mailing address and the date that your registration expires on their website. Some companies use this information to solicit you.
Unfortunately, there are domain name registries that try to…
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