It has been around for many years: people trying to cheat you out of money by sending invoices for things that you do not purchase from them or attempting to sell overpriced services.
Below are some examples:
Invoice for a non-purchased domain name
Which domain name is often not even listed.
For example, a domain name through us often costs less than €15, but these rogue parties will happily send an invoice of €100 or more.
By keeping the invoice as vague as possible, they hope that the invoice will pass inspection and be paid. The amount is often too low to really do anything with it in terms of taking steps.
Below is an example of such an invoice.
Email that someone wants to claim a domain name with your company name
In this case, they send an email that someone else wants to claim a domain name with your company name in it.
So if you use the .nl domain name and you have also claimed the .com domain name (this is always recommended), they will send an email that someone wants to register the .net domain, for example.
Long story short, but they want to “give you the opportunity to record this with them”. This is often for 10 years and/or for a very high rate.
These types of emails are pure deception. You can usually register this domain name yourself. If you ignore the email, most likely nothing will happen.
See an example of such an email below.
The advice is to always forward such emails to us if in doubt, and certainly not to pay!
It is always better to assess an email on a laptop or PC than on a telephone. You will then see more information about the sender.
