A ‘real’ letter “WorldWideWeb Register” asking for 877 Euros (for 3 years) to renew ones domain name has been circulating some of our clients here in WA. Here is a link to other people who have seen or been affected by this.

Because of the change in Domain registration procedures, I have seen people giving these documents serious consideration where possibly 4 months ago they would have simply been thrown out.

What the Spanish scammers are doing is (kind of) legal as they are asking you to pay a lot of money to go onto their database. The fact that their database’s name is coincidentally very similar to the Internet’s WWW Registrar, for me, classifies it as a type of spam or con.

For more details contact Ian Clements, Technical Consultant, Syswise on 9375 2900.