The domain name registration scam

I just got an email from my colleague in Beijing who was a bit in a panic, because he got an email claiming that somebody else was claiming domain names that trademark would be very important for us in the future. Since I have seen passing by this scam already four, five times, I could tell him this was a fake-company trying to earn some money for registering domain names. Here is a link to some additional funny stories.
The email refers to all kind of non-existing government departments (govnic, the development center of the state commission office for public sector reform in Shanghai) and it is of course very urgent. It was very hard to convince my colleague.
Now we have registered them ourselves. A few minutes time for three domain names we claimed them for one year. Costs: one Renminbi per domain name, per year. Even when the extensions of domain names expand again next your, you should be able to pay for that.
I repeat this rather marginal "trademark infringement" scam here, so other who scan the internet might have an easier time to discover this is a very old trick.