There may be a second explanation. I had a domain transferred from verisign, and the original expiration was coming up. My client got the email in question, but when he tried to renew, he got an error that the domain was not under Verisign's control. My guess is they have a screwed up renewal processes that is not filtering out transferred domains.
John W Roche eInfosystems.net -----Original Message----- From: A. M. Salim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: verisign scam? ("Verisign Account Recovery") Hi all, Has anyone else had reports about this scam/spam from Verisign? One of our clients reported receiving this slimey email with the following headers (nsi-direct.com is owned by Network Solutions, and the email carried a full blown VeriSign signature at the bottom). The email carried all the usual click links to quickly mislead the recipient into "renewing" unnecessarily (and thereby transferring the domain to NSI). The interesting thing: The domain in question WAS NOT EXPIRED!!! It was recently renewed, but NOT EXPIRED!!! In fact it had been renewed 7 days before expiration on 2/7/2007, and was not a VeriSign/NSI domain in the first place, as falsely stated in opening of the ominous sounding email. [Chuck or someone from Tucows, I did not want to cross post, would you please send this to the appropriate interested person in OpenSRS? Apparently several others have reported receiving this scam from VeriSign.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: URGENT: Last chance to renew ***********.COM and other domains Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:01:42 -0500 From: "VeriSign Account Recovery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *************************************** LAST CHANCE FOR RENEWAL for ************.COM Expired On: 02/14/2002 and other domain names listed below. *************************************** Reply By: March 8, 2002 *************************************** Attention: VeriSign. Customer Your domain registration for ************.COM and others listed below have already expired. They will be deleted very soon unless you renew them immediately. <snip> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
