One of our web design and social media marketing clients was approached by a person purportedly from a “brand protection company” in China who threatened that they would soon be registering our client’s name in China and Hong Kong  (.cn, .hk). They offered to “protect” the names for them, for a fee. They then made intimidations about how only they could offer the kind of “brand protection services” needed to make sure nothing bad happens to our client’s brand in Asia.

These guys are typical con men and should be ignored, unless you do a lot of business in China and have subsidiaries there. In which case, your Internet folks have probably already grabbed the appropriate domains there for you.

I hate it when bad people try to take advantage of unsuspecting business owners, but global business means global cons.