Definitely a postmaster thing. Question is how close this is to being
fraudulent. I got it at my clients place too. Just 86th it. Ah, wait I got it
on e-mail too. Harder to use at this point.
I definetely think you should contact Tampa Postmaster and let him evaluate.
They are very interested in this kinds of things when it's not related to
them. You'll have a better Postmaster in Tampa than our smaller local PO's.
On Friday 19 April 2002 01:02, you wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:29:05PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 22:37, R P Herrold wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > > Verisign (Network Solutions) is sending snail mails around, telling
> > > > people to renew their domain names. Trouble is, 1) those domain names
> > > > weren't registered with Verisign in the first place, and 2) the
> > >
> > > It is not at all clear that VeriSign sent it. I received
> > > several of these forgeries -- check the Full headers -- looks
> >
> > Verisign is sending out *snail mail* "hijack" attempts. And they are
> > *definitely* from Verisign.
>
> Fact. No scammer would spend this much money on a mail piece. It's a 2/1
> (2 colors on front, 1 color on back), perfed, with the Verisign logo on
> the face of it, plus a BRE (business reply envelope). Definitely
> Verisign. What really makes it more scammy is that it says on the front
> "Domain Name Expiration Notice". Fact is, the particular domain in
> question has another four months before expiration, yet they want a
> reply by 15 May (and of course, as I said, they aren't this domain's
> registrar).
>
> I'm sure I'm being naive, but it seems to me like either ICANN or the
> Postmaster ought to be awfully interested in this type of thing. It's
> stunning to me that the entity that gives these guys their charter
> hasn't the desire or ability to rein them in.
>
> Paul
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