I sent it to legal just in case but it appears to be a possible scam ( http://blog.eset.com/2012/07/24/asia-domain-name-scams-still-going-strong / http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-58331.html a couple other places).
James James Alexander Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Ted Chien <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > We have received this letter as below. Is there anyone aware of this > Miller Investment Ltd? > > Regards, > Ted Chien > > > > Forwarded message: > > > From: Paul Wong <[email protected]> > > Date: 2012年12月21日Friday 下午1:47:54 > > Subject: Domain dispute and protection - wikimedia > > > > Mail > > (Letter to Head of Brand Business or CEO, thanks) > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > This is a formal email. We are the department of Asian Domain > Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. > We formally received an application on December 21, 2012 that a company > claimed "Miller Investment Ltd" were applying to register "wikimedia" as > their Brand Name and some "wikimedia" Asian countries top-level domain > names through our firm. > > Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, > we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with > you whether your company has authorized that company to register these > names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If > you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we > could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally > finish the registration for "Miller Investment Ltd". Looking forward to > your prompt reply. > > > > Best Regards, > > Paul Wong > > Tel:+86.551-65223114 Fax:+86.551-65223113 > > Address:No.660 MeiLing Big Road,Hefei,Anhui,China > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ted Chien > Chairman, Wikimedia Taiwan > -- > Skype: ulead_hsiangtai > Blog: htttp://htchien.tw (http://htchien.tw/) > Facebook: http://facebook.com/htchien > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/htchien > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/htchien > -- > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > http://donate.wikimedia.org (http://donate.wikimedia.org/) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
