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He has a clip posted at the bottom in small print.
It states that if you pay that invoice, you are authorizing Verisign to transfer
the domain to them ;) Isn't life grand?
Fu**ing Crooks is the bottom line...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:44
PM
Subject: Re: Verisign Spamming by Snail
Mail
Hi Doug,
Any chance you could post
the back side of that pseudo-invoice on your
site also?
I haven't actually had a chance to take a look at one of
the Verisign
variety of these yet. I've only seen the Interland
and Register.Com versions.
I'd be interested to see what the language is
that they are binding folks to
(as stated in the signature area of the
form) when they sign and return these.
Thanks,
-Mark
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:33
PM
Subject: Re: Verisign Spamming by Snail
Mail
I think there is a bigger issue here than the mining of the
whois database.
That happens all the time, and ususually it's pretty
easy to filter out the
spammers that are getting addresses this
way.
IMHO the bigger issue is that this is the same company that
operates the root
registry that all CNO domains go through. Most
people recognize the name
Verisign/NetworkSolutions, and my guess is a
lot of these "invoices" will get
paid because the thing looks like an
invoice.
I've put the fax we received on a site called http://domainscams.com, and I plan
on
linking to this.
Doug.
Quoting Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
MessageHowever they go about acquiring their data source, it's still
>
unsolicited contact
> when they snail or E mail our clients.
>
And if it's WHOIS data they're drawing from, whether it be from and
>
online source,
> or a CD, I would think it's WHOIS mining.
>
> -Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:40
AM
> Subject: RE: Verisign Spamming by Snail Mail
>
>
> So do these guys have to be mining the whois
data in order to be
> sending out these mail messages? Can't they buy
(or otherwise cut a deal
> for) the $10,000 whois dire ctory and
simply use that as their data
> source? Isn't that legal? I'm not
advocating for it, just about the
> legality.
>
> -Tim
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>
myOstrich Internet
> http://www.myostrich.net
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