Indias capital markets supervisor, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), will have a look on Tuesday at the suspected participation of National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) in a 2005 scam concerning initial public offerings (IPO’s).

Few of the market participants used 59,000 pretended demat accounts to place share allotments intended for retail investors in the scam.

At present C.B. Bhave the chairman of Sebi was bearing NSDL at that time.

NSDL will hand over its case prior to the Sebi board, which will be headed by Mohandas Pai, a director of Infosys Technologies Ltd. C.B. Bhave has been staying away from the board proceedings to avoid any potential conflict of interest. Mr. Pai said that, “I have no explanation on the issue”.

This critical investigation comes after Sebi declared two of the three decisions of a special committee that was set up to look into NSDL’s function in the scam as null and void in November and said the issue will be heard afresh.

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One of the things which had continued during one moment in the arena of Domain Name is a company which sends the postal sending to replace your Domain Name. The problem is, they are not the company which you currently recorded your Domain Name with.

While somebody called this a swindle, they suppose to say that it is not a swindle in the true direction of the word, supposing they provide really the services of renewal which they offer, but the sending are incredibly misleading, and to resemble an invoice to replace the Domain Name of owners. If the proprietor of the domain doesn’t read the letter carefully and just sends in the payment, they get committed to a new provider when they didn’t intentionally do so. In the way these lettering presented are meant to do just that, mislead the owner of the domain in to switching to their service, at what is usually a much magnified cost over what the domain name proprietor is presently paying. A similar thing took place a number of years ago in the telephone industry, and was subsequently made illegal. This was known as slamming in the phone industry.

More number of people has received a number of mailing like this, being that they own quite a few domain names. They come with different company names in the top of the letter, but they all are strikingly similar in format, and they all have a similar or even exactly the same return address in New York State. Some common names they use are Domain Registry of America, Liberty Names of America, and Domain Renewal Group.

The finer print does say “THIS IS NOT AN INVOICE”, but it’s buried in so much other text you can easily scan over it. In fact, it’s not yet bolded or in capitol letters like the phrase put here. They are even “nice” enough to offer to register other extensions of your domain name for you; at four to five times the price you can register it yourself through most places.

If you receive any of these, our advice is to throw them in the trash immediately. While you can certainly renew or transmit your domain names to any provider you wish, it should be your choice on your own initiation, not a scam mailing like this trying to trap you in to switching for a higher price.

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• Just hit delete:
  If you’re only getting a few spam messages a day, the best solution is probably to just chill out and hit delete. Yes, it’s annoying. And no, it’s not right. But it’s just not worth the effort to banish spam unless it’s really impacting your ability to use e-mail effectively.
• Use built-in spam filters for Web-based e-mail accounts:
  Many e-mail programs have built-in routines for identifying suspected spam. Hotmail’s is particularly useful, probably because Hotmail is such a breeding ground for spam. You’ll find Hotmail’s Inbox Protector under the Options tab. Yahoo Mail has strong built-in, automatic spam protection.
• Use third-party spam-killing software:
  If spam is really hitting you hard, there are third-party software products that can “pre-download” your e-mail, attempt to identify spam, and then let you download only your “clean” mail.
• Use external mail-filtering services:
  If spam is a big problem for everyone in your organization, it might be easier to use an outside mail filtering solution that can intercept spam BEFORE it even reaches your inbox. The best such service we’re aware of is NPOShield, a service offered by ElectricEmbers, a Bay Area nonprofit tech provider. TFP charges sliding scale rates of $1-4 per month per user for NPOShield.
• Use e-mail software with built-in spam filtering features:
  While it’s not yet commonplace, some major e-mail programs are starting to incorporate effective spam filtering features.

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Consumers continue to be inundated by spam purportedly from the FBI. As with previous spam attacks, the latest versions use the names of several high ranking executives within the FBI and even the IC3 to attempt to defraud consumers.

Many of the spam e-mails currently in circulation claim to be an “official order” from the FBI’s Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division, from an alleged FBI unit in Nigeria, confirm an inheritance or contain a lottery notification, all informing recipients they have been named the beneficiary of millions of dollars. To claim the large sum, recipients are instructed to furnish their personally identifiable information (PII) and are often threatened with some type of penalty, such as prosecution, if they fail to do so. Specific PII information requested includes, but is not limited to, the recipient’s name, banking information, telephone number, and a copy of their passport.

The spam e-mail allegedly from the IC3 states that the recipient has extorted money and will be given a limited amount of time to refund the money or face prosecution.

Do not respond. These e-mails are a hoax.

The FBI does not send unsolicited e-mails of this nature. FBI Executives are briefed on numerous investigations but do not personally contact consumers regarding such matters. In addition, the IC3 does not send threatening letters to consumers demanding payments for Internet crimes.

Consumers should not respond to any unsolicited e-mails or click on any embedded links associated with such e-mails, as they may contain viruses or malware.

It is imperative consumers guard their PII. Providing your PII will compromise your identity!

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