Fwd: URGENT Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights "Fedoraproject" Dispute in China

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Dear spot & legal team,

Not sure how trustworthy this email is -- after all, how did they
somehow think I'm the "CEO" of Fedora Project? -- but if there is
indeed a company trying to register Fedora domains then we probably
want to take a look.

Best regards,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: 
Date: 2010/12/16
Subject: URGENT Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights
"Fedoraproject" Dispute in China
To: [e-mail]

(If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is
urgent.Thanks.)
Dear CEO,

We are the organization of Asian Brand and Domain registration
dispute, have something need to confirm with you. we formally received
an application on Dec 15,2010.  one company which called "India
Neltion Pvt Ltd" are applying to register "Fedoraproject" as Brand
Name and Domains.
fedoraproject.com.hk            (Hong Kong)
fedoraproject.com.tw            (Taiwan)
fedoraproject.hk            (Hong Kong)
fedoraproject.in            (India)
fedoraproject.tw            (Taiwan)
But we found that "India Neltion Pvt Ltd" is not the original owner of
the brand and trademark in the checking period,which  belong to your
company .I need confirm with you whether your company authorized that
company to register these domain name.If you have done that ,We will
finish the registration for them and link to their website.
If not ,please let me know ASAP.
In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent
application is 7 workdays. If your company files no dissent within the
time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application.
Best Regards,
________________________________
Roben Zon(Mr)
Auditing  Consultant

Tel: [phone]     Fax: [phone]
Address:Room205, No.D4 Qingxi South Garden, South-ChangJiang
Road,Guichi Shi District,Chizhou,China

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 13:14, Michel Alexandre Salim
 wrote:
> Dear spot & legal team,
>
> Not sure how trustworthy this email is -- after all, how did they
> somehow think I'm the "CEO" of Fedora Project? -- but if there is
> indeed a company trying to register Fedora domains then we probably
> want to take a look.

I think this is a scam

http://www.edmontonwebdesigners.org/2010/05/scam-alert-asia-brand-and-domain...
http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-name-scams
> Best regards,
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: 
> Date: 2010/12/16
> Subject: URGENT Notice of Internet Intellectual Property Rights
> "Fedoraproject" Dispute in China
> To: [e-mail]
>
> (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is
> urgent.Thanks.)
> Dear CEO,
>
> We are the organization of Asian Brand and Domain registration
> dispute, have something need to confirm with you. we formally received
> an application on Dec 15,2010.  one company which called "India
> Neltion Pvt Ltd" are applying to register "Fedoraproject" as Brand
> Name and Domains.
> fedoraproject.com.hk            (Hong Kong)
> fedoraproject.com.tw            (Taiwan)
> fedoraproject.hk            (Hong Kong)
> fedoraproject.in            (India)
> fedoraproject.tw            (Taiwan)
> But we found that "India Neltion Pvt Ltd" is not the original owner of
> the brand and trademark in the checking period,which  belong to your
> company .I need confirm with you whether your company authorized that
> company to register these domain name.If you have done that ,We will
> finish the registration for them and link to their website.
> If not ,please let me know ASAP.
> In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent
> application is 7 workdays. If your company files no dissent within the
> time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application.
> Best Regards,
> ________________________________
> Roben Zon(Mr)
> Auditing  Consultant
>
> Tel: [phone]     Fax: [phone]
> Address:Room205, No.D4 Qingxi South Garden, South-ChangJiang
> Road,Guichi Shi District,Chizhou,China
>
> --
> Michel Alexandre Salim
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[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> > > > > "MAS" == Michel Alexandre Salim  writes:

MAS> Dear spot & legal team, Not sure how trustworthy this email is --
MAS> after all, how did they somehow think I'm the "CEO" of Fedora
MAS> Project? -- but if there is indeed a company trying to register
MAS> Fedora domains then we probably want to take a look.

I've received a couple of these for various domains I own, and I'm
pretty sure that other Fedora folks have received them as well.  It's
just a scam.

- J<