Feb 2010, Apple launched its new firmware 3.1.3 which automatically updated your firmware to 5.12.01. Many iPhone owners were left hanging because there weren’t any solutions out for this and the released date for such a solution was just a blank.

However the dev team did release a solution on the 3rd week of June 2010, and that worked for most iPhones except the new bootrom versions.

Most of the people would  not get the steps right the first time and they would obviously go out searching online for more simpler solutions… sites like www.unlockediphone.info are there waiting in for preys with a make believe one click solution! But ultimately its just a site that has no contact info or physical address and just a copy paste email system.

Our iPhone Unlock Solution:

We have developed our own unique iPhone unlocking solution and we are confident to say that our unlock is the safest, most easiest iPhone Unlocking solution on the market today.

Our solution is simple and failsafe, and will fully unlock any version iPhone, completely hassle Free, without having to worry about updates or complicated instructions!

Our Solution Enables you to activate any iPhone on any network, any carrier, any SIM card. No need to provide any information to AT&T, This is not a technical hardware unlock, No need to soldering/opening your iPhone. You can restore your iPhone to original state, You can use it on as many iPhones you want, works with any iPhone, any Provider, any Simcard! Fully iPhone optimized.

They charge you anywhere from $30-$60  bucks for a software solution that they have no clue how to make, so they just post tutorials in their “members only” section!

Call me crazy but I wanted to see this for real and so I spent $41 through paypal, and guess what… they have no company address either. The payment goes right through SWREG payment system and so if you have to file a reclaim or refund, chances are low that you would get your money back even if you made a PayPal debit.

After payment, I emailed them saying you guys just post up solutions from the Dev Team website word for word and there is nothing that they can call “Theirs” as mentioned on the website… and this is what I hear back from them.

We developed our own solution, but currently offer this solution
as it does perfectly what we advertise. We are working to complete
our own solution so let me know if you have any questions

Let us know if you have further questions.
–
Kind Regards,
Jane
www.unlockediphone.info

Sureee… Thats like saying we advertise Watermelons but right now we just sell posters of watermelons. SCAM SCAM SCAM!!

Stay away from paid vendors like these who claim to have a one-click solution. They DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING with them other than a flimsy website with a payment solution for others hard work.

UnlockediPhone.info Scam…. UnLock solution for all iPhones that is not theirs!!

But then this guy “Andy” from Armenia comes on my website, uses our live support and has this condescending conversation with our Live Customer Help… (Note that this is after they have removed our listing from thier website)

Andy : May I know if who manages your webmaster@mycompany.com email address and why no action is taken when we report PAD errors for “Product Name” listing on free-to-try.com due to unsupported category “Category 1 Category 2″?! BTW, can you say if what is the PAD generator software you use that generates PAD files with such stupid errors?

Live Help: Hello Andy, We use Pad Generator and Not sure why this error shows up.
Andy: Which one? And why you do not correct your PAD files after receiving 5 error reports
Live Help: It should be done in the next day or so. If it is not, I ll contact the apt person for it and get it done.
Live Help: May i ask, Who am i talking to?
Andy: When done, please resubmit your PAD file because it has been removed due to repeated errors, the submission form is located at free-to-try.com/submit.php
Live Help: I ll look into it.
Andy: OK, thanks

So I am sitting on my chair and wondering… This guy must be really missing me from his website! Even after Pad removal, he has to come online to give his loving advice… But even after the removal of a listing… does anyone have the right to come to a Professional Company Website and talk like this to a Live Help Professional Doing his/her job? 

OK so the Pad file is removed from his website…. so get over it… I am trying to understand why was he so restless? Anyway this whole thing threw me off, so i went to check out the site for the first time… to see what exactly is this site. Well needless to say, it had alot of file listings from other companies and softwares, and a million extra banner ads, and My google Toolbar just showed a PR rating of 2… hmmmm…

So I send them a contact message from thier website asking Who has the right to talk rude to our Representative just for having some errors… Well the same thing can be said nicely. And this guys responses were hillarious…

(This probably may look like a webmasters ”stick” fight… but I am just trying to see the picture here…)

My Response “Sorry, A professional company like ours does not want to maintain relations with a PR2 company that shows all characteristics of a PR2 company!“

free-to-try.com Andy – “BTW, how much income has a professional company like yours on selling images? Who do you think you are?!“

(Now hes curious on how much our company is worth? Well this just keeps getting better and better huh… undermining and condescending…)

free-to-try.com Andy – “To make you know more about our PR2 company, enjoy your domain listing in our black list at http://www.free-to-try.com/blacklist.php that we share for free with everyone.“

…. Which when i tried to open, gave me an Open Save Dialog… lol… Just what I Needed… Free-to-try PHP files!!!!!! Webmaster probably didn’t configure PHP on his server… or maybe it was a Black list file just for me… awww …. Well I finally did open up the file in Wordpad, and it has a huge list of websites (not even in HTML code but just one after the other)… around 1200 websites that probably he might have demeaned over the years!

What I am trying to say is, these people need to know where to draw the line. If they talk like this to all of thier customers then I wonder what is keeping them up for so long! I could also have told him “If you are rude and condescending because you are tired of your job going through a few pad files everyday… then probably get another job…” But i tried to be the better person.. and ended the conversation with “My eyes are now opened to a compelete Customer Satisfaction Experience”

Well the whole point of this article is to probably get an opinion on whats going on with the Online world? Having an online company means people do not have to have dignity? or Respect for other companies?
Is it a routine to be rude to and to bully all customer representatives?

The puzzle of the internet world continues… (and Free-to-try’s mean-ness)

Here is what a typical email would look like…

Dear CEO,
We are the domain name registration organization in Asia, which mainly deal with international company’s in Asia. We have something important need to confirm with your company.
On the Mar. X , 2008, we received an application formally. One company named “XXX company ” wanted to register following

Domain names:
MyDomain.cn
MyDomain.com.cn   
MyDomain.net.cn   
MyDomain.org.cn   
MyDomain.tw   
MyDomain.com.tw   
MyDomain.hk   
MyDomain.com.hk   
MyDomain.asia

Internet brand keyword:
    MyDomain
through our body.

After our initial examination, we found that the keywords and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it. If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other aims to buy these domain names. Now we have not finished the registration of  Luyun AP Company yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Auditing Department
TEL: 00852-8122 6293
FAX: 00852-8125 7328
Email:solomon.hu_asiadns.org.cn
Web: star-east.hk

Oh Yeh it would get you going for a while… You would be concerned about some Lolo company getting your domain name…! So pop them with the most obvious questions… Ofcourse now that they know they got your attention, and that there is indeed someone to respond to this particular email address… they send their “very concerned” yet helpful reply…

If you have no relationship with them. According to our working experience, there are 2 possibilities:
1. XXX company is a domain name investment company, they want to register these names before you and sell back to you to gain profits.
2. It may be a commercial method, XXX company is consigned by your competitor to register, make your clients confused.
 
We knew you have registered the domain name “MyDomain.com” and own the intellectual property, this is why we informed you. But now XXX company do not want to register your trademark or domain name “MyDomain.com”, they wanted to apply for other domain names and keyword you have not registered yet. Because domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So XXX company has right to register it. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application. So required by China government  to inform your company to protect your interest.

As the owner of “MyDomain.com”, you will get the priority to register these domain names and keyword. Of course, each company has their own idea. If you don’t think their application will affect your company, you can give up, we will finish their registration. But if you think their registration will confuse your clients and harm your profits, we can send an application form to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only way to prevent domain name grab. Hope get your decision ASAP, so that we can handle the next step.

Best regards

 The Next Step is probably where you would loose it

Further research has shown that some have been charged with bills of $829.81 PER YEAR to register all such useless domain names… (along with a profit sheet of how much they would save by doing it through their domain servers) …

You can see a huge list of domain name scammers here! But this list of organized scams is getting shorter by the day. Thanks to blogs… all it takes is 5 minutes of Google-ing to know that such scams will never last. 

20 Responses to “StarEast Domain Name Scams”

1. Nelson, on March 13th, 2008 at 11:34 am Said: 

   I got that one a few weeks ago, and received two today:
   AsiaDNR (Asia DNR) From Jeff Chan

   and

   Fexon Technology Limited from ronnie.

   Both in the same day, both look almost the same.

   Hopefully the search engines wil pick up on these two in this post, and people will find them here.

2. Alex, on March 19th, 2008 at 9:27 am Said: 

   I’ve received it from nicky.cheung@adnrl.com from “Asia Domain name registration Limited”, (Asia DNR). They have even a web: http://www.asiadnr.net

3. Patricia, on March 19th, 2008 at 12:58 pm Said: 

   Thanks so much for this posting! I was about to get scammed! They sent it to me last week and have continued contacting me as the CEO with the exact same message!

   Crazy online world! Thanks again!

4. Don, on March 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm Said: 

   Hey thanks for this post! Very Helpful! I stoped responding to them…This was the last of thier very concerned emails..

   “We always talk about the case of your company domain name recently,as aforesaid I told that the domain name registration is open to the world,we have no rights to interfere with other people to register .The auditing time is coming soon,have you decided?We need to arrange the records during the process of dealing with domain name registration,all the files need to deliver to domain name disputed arbitration committee,we really want to help you,but we haven’t got any news from you so far,it is hard for us to start our work, if you need to use your registration priority,we will send you the application form to help you finish the registration.
   I know your time is precious,and so do ours,we hope that you can take out some time,let us together to deal with the case,please give me your exact reply at the first time when you see the mail. I am looking forward to hearing from you ASAP.
   Best regards”

5. Ori, on March 28th, 2008 at 2:31 am Said: 

   Wow, thanks, we were contacted also.. I was concerned after i saw their reply. Power to the people.. thanks for posting this!

6. Soner Bekir, on March 31st, 2008 at 8:17 am Said: 

   They almost got me also. I got as far as getting the less than impressive “registration” document with the more than impressive pricing. Took a look at their website and wasn’t convinced, so started googling them and came across this article.

   I have to say it’s a clever scam and an effective one….I hate to think how much they are making. But at least they are greedy…if the costs on the registration document had been significantly less, they may have got me after all.

   Thanks for the post !!!!!

7. tom chatham, on April 8th, 2008 at 1:28 pm Said: 

   almost got me too…this one is good…

8. John, on April 9th, 2008 at 2:16 pm Said: I got the exact same message from someone by the name of “Seven” and I realized something was not right about the email (the broken English etc.) I did a google on the company name and came across this post. Awsome job, wouldn’t have been able to draw a final conclusion about this scam without your help.

   John

9. Kevin, on April 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm Said: Thanks for the heads up. After receiving this email I started researching the company ‘STAR EAST’ and found your blog. I alomost got hooked, but I know better that to trust anyone sending me email out of the blue.

   Thanks again,

   Kevin

10. Marco, on April 15th, 2008 at 5:22 am Said: Because we do business in China, I got interested in the email they sent me. For one or two minutes I almost fell for it… Although I am glad I decided to search the web first.

    Thanks for the heads up!

    Marco

11. jay, on April 17th, 2008 at 9:12 am Said: thank you for the info on this scam. we were emailed today – exact same – found your info from google search of Star East- thanks again
12. Argus Collingwood, on April 17th, 2008 at 9:26 pm Said: Thanks for the blog, we got one also from Asia Domain Name Registration Limited (Adnrl) Brent.Zhao sent it.
13. Mohan, on April 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am Said: Got one on 17th from Kevin. Tian. Did not respond thanks to this blog
14. Didi Abdul, on April 24th, 2008 at 8:41 am Said: Our company received similar email from someone named Amy Chen. I freaked out at first, and to protect our company’s identity, we actually called and wrote to them to confirm this matter. All she said was, if you don’t want people to steal the identity, I will send you a quotation so that you can reserve your domain and identity. Suprise, surprise! The price she sent us was triple of what we normally pay for all of our domains! Started to realise that this was a scam, I quickly register the suggested domain that involves our company name with the normal host. Guess what. after months of ignoring this company’s threat, I received another one today:

    Subject: [*SPAM*] Re: keep quiet all the time

    Dear Miss/Sir

    I am very sorry that you handle this matter with such attitude. I can’t contact you for such a long time. I also don’t know where is the key problem is.I just want to help you protect intellectual property right instead of you would do as what I said to you. You own the preferential right to register these domain names,but it does not mean it belongs to you. If you think they are not important for you, you can abandon and we will register for Universe Limited Company.Once Universe Limited Company apply successfully, the possess right of these domain names belongs to Universe Limited Company not yours. That means you will lose the market in these domains. It becomes the key point of why the global domain names becomes so important. For it affects whether a company brand can exist or not.If you think we are helping you, pls contact us asap for the dispute time is almost at its end. Pls tell us your decision so that we can handle the next step.

    Best Regards,

    Amy Chen
    ——————————————————-

    Asia DNR Ltd
    TEL:+852-3059-3099
    FAX:+852-3177-1520
    +852-3177-1510
    Website: http://www.asiadnr.net

    ——————————————————————————–

    Amy.chen
    2008-04-24

15. artistsvalley, on April 24th, 2008 at 8:48 am Said: 

    @Didi: Interesting Subject line “keep quiet all the time” looks like they into poetry

16. Jake, on May 5th, 2008 at 11:16 pm Said: Thanks for the blog!! I got this recently as well. I’ve even had several phone calls from them trying to get me to buy these domains but after a call to GoDaddy and Googling ‘Star East’ I found this blog. I’ll wait for them to call me again so I can help them ‘lose face’ in their own language!!! (I speak fluent Mandarin).
17. Pali Madra, on May 22nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm Said: I have received two emails for the same domain. One I received today and the last one I received was in February 2008. Surprisingly the emails were for the same domain name but stated different client names in the email.

    The senders were different names. The latest one’s sender was Brent Lee and the earlier one was a chinese name that I cannot recall.

    The emails were sent from auditing officer of “Asia DNR” (the latest one) and the earlier one’s sender was the auditing officer of “Asia DNS”

18. Lucy Zahnle, on May 28th, 2008 at 11:17 am Said: I received one of these emails today ( 28 May 0 from Ruby Liao. It included my company’s name in the subject line. The company presented itself as asiadm. They claimed that “Hutien Fmtr Company” or “Hktie Fmt Company” (the company’s name changed during the course of the email) was after a long laundry list of versions of my company’s name. They also claimed that they also wanted to register the name of the company as an Internet trademark, which I believe is the same as our name. (May be mistaken).

    I had my suspicions about this email and started Googling. I’m glad I found this article. There doesn;t seem to be a whole lot of info in cyberpace on this yet.

19. Penny Townsend, on May 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am Said: Thank you so much for this, I received one this am saying the same with a co called XIANFENG Holdings Ltd Co trying to use my trademark registered name. As I pointed out to them this Co does not exist and I would forward their email to my lawyers. They have not replied!
    Still a horrid start to the day and a waste of time.
    So glad to have had my suspicions confirmed . Thank you for posting this.