Peter Francis-Macrae is currently on trial for alleged death threats he made as police closed in on his domain name scams. Francis-Macrae ran two domain name scams:
1. .EU registrations. He sent spam to thousands of people offering to register forthcoming .eu domains for them. One client got bilked for £5,780.
2. Domain renewal scam. He sent letters to people offering to renew their domains for them. He grabbed the information about the expiring domains from Nominet’s .uk database.
As a NetNames employee points out in this article, “Consumers and organisations should only engage with professional, reputable and accredited domain name registrars and not instinctively place their trust in anyone just because they have a website.”
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