Domain Scam - anyone else

Got this email yesterday though i would share it as i am sure i am not the only one, This company seems to have pulled the email contacts from Whois or someplace.

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From: Treey [mailto:sunny@ntwifine​twork.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 06:17 AM
To: info{@}michaellambertp​hotography.com (INVALID EMAIL)
Subject: Notice of Intellectual Property Protection


Dear Sir or Madam: 2009-2-17
We are a domain name registration service company in China. Yesterday we received a formal application submited by Mr. Steven Lee who wanted to use the keyword "michaellambertphotogr​aphy" to register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.h​k/.asia/ domain names.
After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration are same as your domain name and trademark. We don’t know whether you have any relation with Mr.Steven Lee. Because these domain names would produce possible dispute, now we have hold down the registration of Mr.Steven Lee, but if we do not get your company’s any reply in the next 5 working days, we will approve this application soon. In order to handle this issue better, Please contact us by fax or email as soon as possible.
Treey
Attorney at law of Legal Department
Tel: 86 0513 8532 2060
Fax: 86 0513 8532 2065
Email:sunny@ntwifinetw​ork.com
Web: www.ntwifinetwork.com
Mail No.:137584

I've never had anything like this. Of course, they don't have a leg to stand on, but it might scare the unwary into coughing up "administrative costs" to fight the claim.

Only people obviously cyber-squatting domains with recognized brand names (i.e MickeyMouse.com) can be brought to trial - and sometimes even they fail in their claims.

My guess it's more likely an attempt to get Michael to use them to register the .cn etc. domain names.

Yea thats what i was thinking, Kind of a scare tactic to register the other domain extensions. I host about 8 different domain names and have gotten the exact same email about 40 times now for 5 of the 8 domains.

The emails seem to come from a different person @ there domain all having the title of the domain in the keyword.