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Tue 2005-04-12

Dear Mr Gullible

Filed under: — daniel @ 08:31

Dear Mr Gullible,

How would you like to renew your domain name at an exhorbitant rate with us?

Sincerely,
Borderline Fraud Department,
Domain Registry of America

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5 Responses to “Dear Mr Gullible”

  1. tony says:
    Tue 2005-04-12 at 09:11

    Ha! You think that’s bad – Melbourne IT charge $69.30 for a .com address p/a.

    This does come with a “One Page Website …free for the first registration period of your domain name”. I don’t know how Melbourne IT can sleep at night thinking they can get away with that, although I guess they don’t try and dupe their customers with dodgy letters.

  2. Malcolm says:
    Tue 2005-04-12 at 11:22

    While you and I may know that this is just a try-on, when the letter arrives at a company’s account department it looks legit enough that they will most likely pay it without question.

  3. Ren says:
    Wed 2005-04-13 at 09:50

    I got one of those too! What a scam.

  4. andy says:
    Wed 2005-04-13 at 23:11

    I haven’t got one yet :( I like collecting spam and fraudulent emails.

  5. andy says:
    Fri 2005-04-15 at 01:56

    Actually the sad thing is that is probably only a little over what I pay to renew a domain. I pay UK£20 for two years of renewal, which XE.com assures me is about AUD$48. Oh well. I don’t think it’s a bad price to pay, it’s only 2p a day. :)

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