René Seifert - Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

Sorry, for being so lazy with blogging lately. The bad news of it is that I had a couple of infrastructural problems which were unrelated, but in sum made work for a few days hell of slow. That situation improved so far. The good news is that the work as such is very exciting, with existing and new projects/ventures coming up.  In addition, I am currently preparing for an extended weekend in Bangalore for the stagnight of Christian, a good friend of mine. If we don't get arrested and land in jail for what we plan to do, I will be happy to share that experience.

What I found quite "interesting" these days was a new shape of "human spam". Similar to the Nigeria connection with the stone-old fraudulent request to wire some money as a preliminary funding for a multimillion transfer that is imminent. *Yawn* "Human spam" infers that the cost of labour and hence it's opportunity cost is close to zero so that these types of real human interactions pay off in spite of a very low conversion rate. On a similar line I got a personalized e-mail from Netchina, a domain registrar from China pertaining to my company domain level360.com 

A person named "Mars Zhou" (mars.zhou@netchina.org.cn) adressed me in a very sly manner with

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In the fist place you pay attention, write back politely and want to know what the issue is. Here comes the catch. Pretending to be a law-abiding player who has to follow a necessary legal procedures, the company tries to lure you into a conversation where at the end stands the recommendation to buy these domains yourself as there allegedly existed a prority for companies who had already registered under the brand name before. At this point my bells of suspicion stared to ring very loud. Needless to mention that if you google "Jufeng Holdings Limited", there is no such entity and looking closer into the subsequent mail from Netchina, it comes as a cheap, dirty and shady sales pitch under false pretext.

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 I am willing to help you during the whole process. We will put every step of registration on file. Contacting you for a time, I have noticed that you are a responsible person. We are glad to assist you. As a domain registrar, I don't like to see the badman getting huge profits though domain squatting.

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*Puke*  In the first place, I did not react, just deleted the e-mail. However, remember "low cost of labour and opportunity cost close to zero", Mars Zhou doesn't give up that fast. Today I got another mail saying

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Dear Mr.

I am mars zhou,we always talk about the case of your company domain name recently,as aforesaid I told that the domain name registration is open to the world,we have no rights to interfere with other people to register .The auditing time is coming soon,have you  decided?We need to arrange the records  during the process of dealing with domain name registration ,all the files need to deliver to domain name disputed arbitration committee,we really want to help you ,but we haven't got any news from yu so far,it is  hard  for us to start our work,   if you need to use your registration priority ,we will send you the application form to help you finish the registration,I know your time is precious,and so do ours,we hope thatyou can take out some time,let us together  to deal with the case ,please  give me your exact replyat the first time  whenyou see the mail. 
Best Regards,
 
Mars zhou

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Never mind the typos which I copied as they came. I felt the best response to this practise is to blog it. Will gladly submit the URL of this post to Mars Zhou who, together with his entire company, should indeed be shot to, well nomen est omen, Mars :-)