Leosghost - 12:55 am on Jan 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

I regularly receive fake domain registration renewal notices from another company based in the UK sent to my official uk office address ..they only ever push me for the "check by return" to avoid the "domain lapsing" on the french spellings that I register under my companies names .

Presumably they think that in that case I must be french ( am not ) and will not realise due to presumedly poor english skills that they are scamming me..

I think this type of scam is more widespread than assumed ..

And the names I get these official looking letters and "invoices" about were not registered with Nominet but were done across the atlantic ..

They ask for £75.00 ( around $110.oo )per year to renew or risk losing a dot com.

They must hook some as until 2 or 3 years ago it cost on average $200.oo per year to register a dot com if you did so through the main french telecom / internet supplier france telecom..so it may seem like good deal to some here .