Hi Jeff, We're seeing a lot of these as well. If you need a link for filing a complaint with the USPS or FTC, this is posted on our site http://domainscams.com. We do have the register4less.com name on the site, so you might want to build your own to point your clients to.
Keep in mind the renewal scam from Verisign & Domain Registry of America/Canada is sneaky. Once the customer has sent in their "invoice" payment, they don't hear again from the offending party. No email is sent to the admin contact to validate the transfer, since they figure that the signed piece of paper is confirmation enough. I doubt however that there is a transfer without a credit card charge or check to go with it. We've heard from customers that the reply by dates given by Verisign can be misleading as well. They'll give a reply date that's months in advance of the actual expiry date, implying the expire is sooner than it acutally is. Once of our customers got one of these for a domain expiring in 2004! September seems to be the current hot target however. Doug. Quoting Jeff Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have had an influx of requests to transfer domain names from OpenSRS > to Network Solutions. Four of the requests where from a mailing by > Network Solutions to "renew" in their sleazy renewal mailing. I suspect > these were submitted back to Network Solutions and the transfer request > made that way. However, I have a couple transfer requests that the > (very long time) customer says they did not initiate under any > circumstances. One of them loathes Network Solutions and wouldn't do > business with them at gun-point, so I'm certain someone is playing > games. > > Is anyone else experiencing these strange requests? And while I'm on > the subject, has anyone complained to the USPS about the mailing from > Network Solutions that looks like a bill, but does not say it's a bill? > > >
