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From: Mark Anderson
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:12

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I'm getting some pretty weird email from Network Solutions.  One of my 
domain names is up mid Feb and I usually renew about now.  Network 
Solutions usually just sent me normal reminders every week starting 
around end of November.

This year I have been getting email like this:

Subject: Unable to Process Your Order

Thank you for your order and for giving Network Solutions the 
opportunity to serve your online needs.

Unfortunately, we were unable to process your request. None of the 
services in this order have been fulfilled, including items that have 
deferred payments.

Please contact your credit card company directly to resolve any 
potential issues or log in to ...

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And it goes on from there.  I don't have auto renewal and the last 4 
digits of the code they claim to have on me is 1234 which means this 
might be some sort of marketing tactic.  

This is really creeping me out.  I checked the links and they look legit 
although I'm not going to click through.  I don't understand why Network 
Solution is doing this.  If this is phishing it's pretty damned 
authentic looking!

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From: Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com>
Newsgroups: chi.internet
Subject: Network Solutions
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 12:12:12 -0500
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