I received a rather official looking document in the post yesterday and it was asking me to fill out in duplicate details relating to one of my domain names to help keep ‘the World Wide Web Register on the Internet up to date’.

Yeah, sure.  Like they would be sending this out to millions of people to try and keep something like that up to date. All the same, many will fall for it because it looks so legit.

Small print shows you are giving permission to GT@P permission to print the data in the ‘next three annual editions’ of a Web Company Register and that you will pay the bill of 877 euros.  The ‘contract’ comes into force one week after the signed paper has been returned in the post.

I did a search on this so-called register and found several warnings about this scam - it’s been around for years. Seems it’s taken this long to get through the ‘millions’ of domains for one to be sent to me. Amazing, I’ve had that domain since the mid 1990s.

I scanned the document so you can see what it looks like - the envelope is from Economique/Economy in France and there was a return envelope to use - I’ve already thrown it away but believe the address was Spain.