I received the same letter, they have gone to great efforts to make this 
letter appear like a bill, they have used similar envelopes to telstra and 
the format of the letter is the same as my gas bill, barcode and all. This 
is clearly a deceptive marketing campaign. I hope the ACCC come down on 
these people like a ton of bricks. But I suspect that as one organisation 
gets shutdown another will appear with the same players behind the scene. 
Is there anything that can be done about this? I don't think that it is 
really anything to do with auDA unless auDA have the ability to do 
something, eg. cancel registrar status. I wonder how much contact auDA has 
with the ACCC, and if the ACCC are being educated as to the impact of this 
sort of spam/scam marketing in the domain industry. Do the ACCC have an 
internet industry liaison? Are there criminal or civil laws which could be 
applied to this sort of thing?

anyhow,

Jason Pay





Richard Archer <rha&#167;juggernaut.com.au>
24/07/03 04:26 PM
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At 16:11 +1000 24/7/03, Sean Finn wrote:

>I hate to say it,
>and as much of a pain in the but that it is,
>for once, could they actually be doing something they are allowed to do?

Their letters are crafted to look like an invoice and are
intended to deceive people into registering a domain they
neither want nor will use.

They might get away with it, although I suspect their
previous record will tip the balance against them. It
would be impossible to give them the benefit of any doubt.

 ...R.

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