Overview

There has been a recent wave of scam emails sent out from the DMS Australia organisation claiming a domain name requires payment for “Renewal notifications”.
Note: the listed Item is for “Renewal notifications” rather than an actual renewal of the domain’s registration.

They will generally include contact details pulled from your domain name’s registrant information and include links to an invoice they claim should be paid.

Note

These emails are FAKE and can simply be deleted.

Here’s part of what this email looks like:

Subject: Renewal notifications for: www.exampledomain.com.au

Message Body:
Action needed: keep www.exampledomain.com.au renewal notification service active.

Hi "exampledomain" team,
We are scheduled to extend the domain renewal notification service for the domain listed below on Day/Month/Year. To ensure the service remains active without interruption, please complete payment now.
Domain: www.exampledomain.com.au
Renewal term: 1 years
Amount due: 178.00 AUD
Renewal date: Day/Month/Year
Pay Now 

Link to online invoice

You can pay using Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

If you prefer not to renew, reply to this email at least 5 days before Day/Month/Year; otherwise, we’ll assume you would like to continue. Please review your details and reply if any updates are needed:

Company name: ExampleDomain
Address: Address pulled from domain information
Email: Domain's registrant contact email

These emails are not legitimate or relevant to the actual domain registration. Please just DELETE this email as it’s a fake scam.

This type of domain renewal notification scam was previously sent by “DNRS Australia”. It looks like they have now updated the organisation name to continue sending these messages.
https://conetix.com.au/support/dnrs-australia-scam-email/


If you are unsure as to the emails legitimacy, or the domain’s actual renewal, please feel free to reach out to our support team at to confirm.

Scams can be reported to Scamwatch at the following link
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/report-a-scam

More reports will help give the proper authorities information to take action against these scams

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