Dear ZARC Hereby we wish to notify you that Complaint 520952 (Petsplaceza.co.za) submitted and acknowledged by you on 2024-01-24 has become moot. The scammer decided to abandon this domain six months after being reported to you, sadly also after twelve known victims.
In a previous article we mentioned that not much is known about the Cameroonian Pet Scam or this type of fraud emanating from West Africa. We mentioned the pet scam, the weed scam and stolen credit card details. This article quickly looks at one scammer found that will illustrate this type of cyber-crime.
Background: A domain proxy is a system whereby a domain owner, the registrant, hides his or her details for a domain registration behind a registrar or reseller’s proxy. The proxy owner substitutes his own details for those of the registrant, the domain owner. This is a great shield for legitimate users wishing to protect their privacy, but also attracts malicious registrants using fake registration details.