Email scam
Beware of an email scam going around.
I am surprised with level of details which I am sure get passed on by godaddy/namecheap when you register domain name.
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The weirdest thing is although the one I got was similar to this it was a different company called workonphone....and I can't find any information good or bad about this company..has anyone had any dealings with the company?
There are so many out there. Main thing I do is always check company title in email address and search it on google
Yep...I think so..it was something along the lines of without this I would not be ranked with google....I obviously wasn't thinking because nowhere here did anyone say you had to do this.....Oh well perhaps I've paid for another lesson in life...at least it wasn't very much, which is why I didn't think about it.......
I am sure that those guys get a lot of people with those emails... In total, I have around 15 domains right now... I've gotten those emails on almost all the ones that I don't have Privacy set..
Was there any period of time when domain privacy had not been put into effect for the domain? (It wouldn't have taken scammers very long at all to get the information.)
hmm.. I checked.. it is privacy set... godaddy registered and hosted here. I haven't checked the whole site, but so far, I don't see your email displayed.. only your author profile.
Amazing the time spent on sending emails of that type... Guess they must make some money on it.
I doubt that there's really much time involved -- bots scan for the information and send out the scare letters. They're all pretty much the same boilerplate verbiage.
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I got that exact email after I bought my domain
I am sure the details go to third parties