Part 301,816 This time it was from dcsaol.com - a site which went active on 08-JAN-2009. A WHOIS lookup returned a valid address, according to the US Postal Service. However, the phone number given in the record doesn't match.
Oops. The mail actually included this line: "We demand that you take 3 minutes out of your online experience and renew your records to avoid running into any future problems with the online service." ::Snort::
Ok, according to WHOIS.NET, the registrant of dcsaol.com is a person named Jeff. I won't post his address or his invalid phone number. Although the address actually exists, nobody named Jeff lives there. To be completely honest, we don't even know that "Jeff" is the person's real name. But at least the address physically exists, unlike some of the addresses given in ACORN voter "registration" cards.
Another oops.
There were a number of easy ways to tell this mail was a fraud, but I won't go into them. Methinks that 1and1.com, the site's host, needs to start checking their registrants.
It took me all of three minutes.
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