Not new.. it's been mentioned on the list before (as recently as June 12): http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0306/0108.html
I reported their activity to Tucows several months ago. On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Robert L Mathews wrote: > We've seen another renewal scam being sent to our customers in the last > couple of days. It's targeted at .biz owners, sent via spam e-mail to the > WHOIS contact.
