This is common with domain registrations too. They will mail an unsuspecting company a request to pay for “continued domain protection” for a domain close to expiration, which means literally paying them to send another letter when the domain is up for renewal again. The don’t do anything with the domain, you just pay them to mail you letters when it’s close to expiring

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is genius, I should automate it

[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 11 months ago

The whois data is usually anonymized these days. However, there are companies that forget to check that box.

Spammers often deliberately make their messages full of spelling and grammatical errors because they want to target people who are just that naive. Might have a similar thing going on here.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I got those letters when I registered a domain. It was so annoying.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Nowadays any registrar worth their salt will provide free Whois protection for TLDs that support it, but it was absolutely a racket at the time