I find a lot of these “this company is tried to usurp your brand with Chinese domain name purchases” emails in my spam folder, corresponding to my (many) domains. They’re a scam, of course: the scammer is trying to goad me into saying “No, please help protect my brand identity, I’ll pay you over the odds for these .cn domains!”
But I’ve always wondered – what happens if you reply and say “Yes, Baokang Ltd DO represent my business interests in China, please go ahead and let them register these domains.” I’d know that was a lie, and the scammer would know that was a lie (the company, if it even exists, is under their control in the first place)… but they can’t admit that they know that.
Anybody tried baiting this kind of scammer in that way before? (With the usual scambaiting precautions, of course!)
Haven’t seen one of these in person yet. The one I see most often is a couple times a month I get an email from some client who has received an email or physical letter from some scam registrar that is using carefully worded language that (when incautiously read) implies that they’re a customer and that they simply need to fill out a form and send a check to renew their expiring domain, where in fact they’ve never done business with this scam company before.