SCAM of the week: Internet Domain Name scam

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Don’t let scams happen to you!
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When it comes to scams, it’s often said that “WWW.” stands for Wild Wild Web. 

Accordingly, here at Quincy Quarry’s luxurious and waterfront technical services executive offices we tend to open our mail and especially our email with great trepidation.

As such, we were not surprised that among the many things good and not so good that arrive in Quincy Quarry’s mailbox we found bad in the envelope pictured below as it pimped a beaut of a scam.

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Inside of the envelope was a letter claiming our valuable internet domain name was up for renewal.

Granted, domain renewals are necessary, but what this scammer is actually endeavoring to grift is that unwitting domain owners use an also enclosed form to transfer their domain name from the domain owner’s current domain registrar (where you obtained your internet domain name – for example, GoDaddy.com) over to them. 

That and whack you for over double the yearly renewal rate or more going forward. 

Youse want me to break one leg or two?
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Think hijacking meets ransoming. 

Even worse, technical problems too geeky to discuss herein might cripple so scammed domain owners’ websites.

Relatively modest dollar hit to the unwitting victims of this cheesy scam notwithstanding, dupe enough domain owners and the total take for the scammer can total up real money while at the same time the grift is still short money on a per victim basis and thus often ending up low on law enforcement and consumer protection agencies’ to do lists.

Quincy Quarry is thus posting this exposé as a public service to our ever growing legions of loyal readers as the Quarry does not want anyone to fall victim to this or any other slimy Internet scam.

Plus, given all of the trafficking on the QQ website, we know that many of our readers are internet savvy as well as that a number of them have purchased their own domain names and then set up websites so as to reap the vast range of legitimate rewards possible from using the web and given Quincy Quarry’s website serving as their inspiration. 

Accordingly, as for this scam and many similar scams, we suggest reviewing the following informative and exciting video:

Want to learn more about Internet-related scams?  Visit: SCAM of the Week

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