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Legitimate or not?
Within the last two weeks, two of Clock Tower Law Group's clients have received email solicitations from a company in China. The company appears to be offering registered trademark owners (i.e. our clients) the chance to register certain Chinese domain names that a third party (Gardiner Limited) is supposedly trying to register.

Each of my clients thought that the email sounded suspicious and asked for my help. Is this a legitimate and clever marketing campaign? Or is it something else? I do not know the answer. I hope that by posting the emails (edited to remove the names of my clients and replacing their domains with "example") in this article that others will find this article and provide their input in the comments.

This email arrived first:

Subject: URGENT-Dispute of trademark / China
From: Andy Wang
To: [DELETED]


Dear Manager,


We are Shanghai JinYue Network Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
we have received an application formally,one company named "Konderl Holdings Limited" applies for the domain names(YourCompany.cn ,YourCompany.com.cn ,YourCompany.net ,YourCompany.net.cn ,YourCompany.org ,YourCompany.org.cn) and the internet Brand Name (YourCompany) on the internet spe 3, 2007. We need to know the opinion of your company, because the domain names and internet brand name may relate to the usufruct of brand name on internet.
we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible. Please let someone in your company who is responsible for trademark or intellectual right contact me freely.


After our initial examination, we found that the internet
brand being applied for is as same as your company's
name. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the
affirmation from your company. If your company has not
authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please
contact us as soon as possible.

In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for
dissent application is 15 days. If your company files no
dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally
approve the application submitted by "Gardiner Limited".

Best Regards,

Andy Wang


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Andy Wang
China Internet Network approve Organization
JinYue Internet Technology Co.,Ltd
Tel:+86-21-6427 1113
Fax:+86-21-6427 1117
Email: andy@domaingov.cn
MSN:andy.wang2008@hotmail .com

submitceo

It's a scam. But if I were you I would have fun with them.
Email them back and let them know you sent the funds they request via western union, and why haven't they picked them up?
I love doing that.

Richard Joseph

yea definitly a scam...

i won 10 mill the other day from a similar email...

but when i ended up calling them they were very suprised that i found there # and now there lines disconected lol

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jethrotul

To the OP, do your clients need these domains with Chinese extensions? If yes, why can't they simply register without sending money anywhere?