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The full contents of this article can be found at onlinedomain.com. Here is the link:A fake DDOS ATTACK threatening .us domain names has started today. The scam is targeting owners of .us (for now) domain names by harvesting email addresses from domain name whois and then emailing a threat.
Seems that every scammer in the world is using the domain name whois info.
The email that claims to be coming from the “Anonymous hackers group” asks the domain name and website owners to make a Bitcoin payment and if they don’t an DDoS attack will start with service going down permanently.
I say it is fake as this is not something the Anonymous group is doing and it is clear that they have not even visited the domain name to see that there is not website there but just a landing page.
https://onlinedomain.com/2017/05/11/domain-name-news/fake-ddos-attack-threatening-us-domain-names/