Status: MISLEADING SPAM/SCAM
If you get an email like the example described below, do not click on any links in it. It is not from us. This email is pure spam. The sender is trying to make you think you must pay them to renew your domain and/or remain in search engines. Don't pay them anything, and don't click any links in the email. This is actually a spam solicitation email, not a bill, as you can see in the very tiny faint print at the bottom of the email. They just want to charge you a lot of money for an "SEO" (search engine optimization) service. Paying these guys anything will not renew your domain registration, and failing to pay them will not affect your domain expiry or your existing search engine visibility.
By the way, they claim in the faint, tiny print at the bottom of the email to be CAN-SPAM compliant. They're not. The very fact that we have to repeatedly reassure so many people with explanations about this sneaky, misleading email proves there is nothing "clear and conspicuous" about the advertising nature of this spam.
Data in brackets [ ] in the example below indicates a variable that will be different for you, depending on date/time, your own domain name, etc. The links in the email example below have been disabled for your safety.
Sender: "Domain Service" [this may vary]
Subject: [your domain] Final Notice
Email Body is as follows:
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Notice#: [random number string]
Date: [date]
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Domain: [your domain]
Expiration date: [some date]
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| To: [Your Name], [Your Company] |
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| [Your Street Address] |
| [Your City] |
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| [State, ZIP] UNITED STATES |
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Domain Name:
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Registration Period:
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Amount:
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Term:
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| [your domain] |
[current year date] to [next year date] |
$86.00 |
1 Year |
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Secure Online Payment
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Domain Name: [your domain]
Attn: [Your Name]
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This important expiration notification notifies you about the expiration notice of your domain registration for [yourdomain] search engine optimization submission. The information in this expiration notification may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information from the notification processing department of the Domain Seo Service Registration to purchase our search engine traffic generator. We do not register or renew domain names. We are selling traffic generator software tools. This information is intended for the use of the individual(s) named above.
If you fail to complete your domain name registration [yourdomain] search engine optimization service by the expiration date, may result in the cancellation of this search engine optimization domain name notification notice.
Process
Secure Online Payment
to complete your payment.
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Failure to complete your seo domain name registration [yourdomain] search engine optimization service process may make it difficult for customers to find you on the web.
This domain seo registration for [yourdomain] search engine service optimization notification will expire [date].
Instructions and Unlike Instructions from this Newsletter: You have received this message because you elected to receive special notification. If you no longer wish to receive our notifications, please unlike here. If you have multiple accounts with us, you must opt out for each one individually to unlike receiving notifications. We are a search engine optimization company. We do not directly register or renew domain names. This is not a bill. You are dont need to pay the amount unless you accept this notification. This message, which contains promotional material strictly along the guidelines of the Can-Spam act of 2003. We have clearly mentioned the source mail-id of this email, also clearly mentioned our subject lines and they are in no way misleading. Please do not reply to this email, as we are not able to respond to messages sent to this address. |
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