Delete Notification: example.com

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Jan 15, 2024

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Last week, I received an email from an unknown address that spoke about the expiration of my domain XXXXXX.ORG. The name of the domain owner – yours truly – mentioned in the email was correct. The domain name mentioned too was correct. However, the domain expiry date was not correct and that made me suspicious. Also the fact that the email came from an address that did not seem right.

Given below is the copy of the termination warning email as received by me.

Termination warning Email

Termination Warning

This notice is to inform you that your domain invoice number c062dc6b530846cda8ada11be4fdb2ea is OVERDUE. XXXXXX.ORG expiring on 12 January 2024 is SUSPENDED.

The contact person currently on file is Sanjeev Sharma.

Renew XXXXXX.ORG (Don't' click – link changed)

Expiration:
12 January 2024

Legal Disclaimer:
We can not be held legally accountable for any claims, damages or loss that you may incur owing to the cancellation of XXXXXX.ORG. Any such damages may include but are not solely limited to: sales losses, lost data without backups, loss of position in search rankings, lost appointments, undelivered email and any other business, service or technical damage that you may suffer. For further reference please refer section 22.b.3.e of our Terms of Use

Duration:
This is the final message that we are required to communicate with reference to the expiration of XXXXXX.ORG.

CLICK HERE TO RENEW – (Don't' click – link changed)

Unable to click the link? Copy and Paste this into your browser:
https://dangerousdomain.com/cart/c062dc6b530846cda8ada11be4fdb2ea – (Don't' click – link changed)

All web services will be restored immediately on XXXXXX.ORG upon confirmation of payment. We thank you for your cooperation and continued business.

Final Notice sent on January 12 2024

If you are not the intended recipient of this notice for this website please contact customer support immediately.

Whenever I get such emails, I always try and check the sender's domain. In this case it was “juhog.com”. The question I ask is – why would someone from this domain send me an email. The red herring's in this case were:

1. The registrar of my domain about which the warning was being given had nothing remotely to do with JUHOG.

2. The domain was good for another few years.

The email was clearly a phishing email, fit for being ignored.

I however did a few things to reconfirm my suspicions.

I tyed juhog.com on my browser. Sure enough there is no website with that name – a good enough indicator that the email and the sender both are bogus.

I then clicked on the Renew Link