Had to put this in as I just received my spam letter causing me to waste a day with our attorney!
Just like the Nigerian letter stating that your now a millionaire if you give us five thousand dollars first! Seems some entrepreneurial folk in China want to scare some money from name holders of websites.
Read here about what all the hubbub is all about!
That link is from Chris's Blog at Firetrust a legitimate New Zealand Anti-Spam software maker! God Bless Chris for his information!
This next confirms from McAfee that the website responsible for sending the spam is a known spam site
McAfee siteadvisor
One thing that raised a red flag in my mind early on is that ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a public company located in the United States. It alone is responsible for web page names and there correctly corresponding IP addresses. Thus when you type in CNN.com you get CNN.com and not some hack site in Hungary!
However they do not limit who can give out such names, just that they don't conflict. Thus legitimate companies like GoDaddy.com can exist and make a profit selling legit web products. This is where we can run into trouble. Real individuals in China can try and scam you by bending the truth a bit and hoping that your gullible enough to bite and not look back.
So to enable you to be vigilant in action, here are some sites to bring your knowledge base up on the topic so as to prevent this sort of thing from ripping you off.
Wikipedia.org's ICANN page a great place to research the issue and start from.
ICANN's home page. lots of tech information from true source to followup with!
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