[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

[James Turner]

On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 19:24, James Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 09:12, Peter Cannon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 Jul 2004 00:17, The wise and knowledgeable Stuart Langridge
> >
> > "We have had an enquiry to register gotcha-baby.co.uk (or the relevant
> > company name), we have noticed this is your company name and wanted to
> > give you a chance to register it first before this other company takes
> > it!"
>
> I used to get this every so often. I vaguely remember hearing that the
> company concerned was subsequently investigated by trading standards
> following a complaint. The trading standards folks demanded to see evidence
> that the alleged other companies actually existed, and when the evidence
> was not forthcoming ordered them to desist.
>
> I have no sympathy for them. :)
>
> James

In another similar scam, we received what appeared to be an invoice to renew a 
domain resembling the company's name, but following further enquiries around 
the offices, no staff knew anything about it ever having been purchased in 
the first place.

It was, in fact, an advert designed to trick people into registering a domain 
they didn't actually want. This domain had been speculatively purchased by 
the purpotrators in the hope that we'd buy it off them.

Good job the accounts department were awake that day.

James