[HN Gopher] Who's Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?
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       Who's Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?
        
       Author : impish9208
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-07-03 16:19 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | TheNewsIsHere wrote:
       | I own a business that provides managed web services to other
       | small businesses.
       | 
       | Our clients get these kinds of letters all the time, and we've
       | had several instances of being asked after-the-fact whether
       | they're legitimate. Often this happens when these kinds of
       | letters go to accounting and are paid automatically to prevent
       | whatever deleterious effects are described by the letter.
       | 
       | The letters my clients have gotten sometimes make it sound to the
       | uninformed like they're ambiguously tied to domain availability
       | or registration.
       | 
       | We have to educate and restate our guidance on this several times
       | a year.
       | 
       | I should start sending out proactive reminders that it's a waste
       | of money.
       | 
       | Edit for typos.
        
         | reaperducer wrote:
         | Within two weeks of registering a new company, I had people
         | calling me saying they were from "the copier company" asking me
         | to confirm the copier model number so they could send my
         | "regular shipment."
         | 
         | Eventually instead of just hanging up, I started saying "who
         | even uses a copier anymore?" which evolved into "who we dont
         | have a copier, we're paperless." None of that helped.
         | 
         | What stopped them was wasting their time asking where to find
         | the copper model number, acting like I had to go into another
         | room to see it, coming back with fictitious brands ("I think
         | it's a Magnet Box model 639173638483827483" "Flowerstrenginsen.
         | Is that a copier?" "All I see is a knob for lighter, darker,
         | and bagel").
         | 
         | That got me off the lists.
        
       | NoZebra120vClip wrote:
       | Does DomainNetworks actually provide some kind of service? It
       | seems to me that they could evade prosecution if they do actually
       | provide a service, even if it's trivial and low-effort, and they
       | can hide behind the ambiguity of their "billing" practices that
       | in fact they are simply a solicitation for service.
       | 
       | I have seen this before, where a company will offer promotional
       | services such as putting a business in the Yellow Pages or SEO
       | listings in all the major engines, and it's a legit service that
       | anyone could offer, but they make it appear like you already have
       | a relationship with them, and therefore an obligation to "keep
       | paying" them.
        
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