So I headed over to their “office” Just like the Google maps image, it’s a warehouse. The people there don’t look like they know what a domain is. The address is clearly real, but in no way truly associated with the scam artists that are using it in their email.

Takes me back to the days of Domain Registration of America letters. I guess it’s cheaper these days to use spam instead of postal mail.

Question: can they be held liable under any mail fraud / wire statutes, since they are clearly using someone else’s address in bad faith to commit their scam?

[...] Wer es mit nicht glaubt, glaubt vielleicht anderen. Vgl. http://domainnamewire.com/2009/03/23/more-domain-spam-final-notice-of-domain-notification/ [...]

[...] The notification looks like an expiring domain notice, but it’s actually not the old scam that tries to get you to renew your domain name through another service (e.g. “Domain Registry of America”). Instead, this notification seems to indicate you need to renew your “search engine registration”, which I suppose means submitting your web site to search engines. Of course all of the language seems to indicate not responding could mean your domain expires, which isn’t the case… More… [...]