Is this a new type of internet fraud( identity theft)?

Just minutes ago I received the following:Dear Manager,



Asia Network is the company of internet services that the domain registration is one of the major online style of our service range.Now we have something need to confirm with you.We hope you to cooperate with us.On May 26th 2008,we received an application from one person named 鈥淎.B.鈥?who wants to register some domains(XYZ.asia...
and internet brand(XYZ).According to our investigation,we found that domain names have relevance to your company鈥檚 name and trademark,so we send this email for you to confirm it.We are dealing with this affair in these days,so we wish to get the confirmation and the assent of your company.IfA.B.doesn鈥檛 belong to your company and you don鈥檛 authorize him to register these domains,Pls contact with me asap in order to prevent some guy from abusing your trademarks and the company names. "If I don't answer within 15 day they give the name to A.B. The mail is from Chinese company

I 've received the same email from asiaregistrar.org just now:
"...we received an application from one person named 鈥淎B鈥?who wants to register some domains(myname.asia myname.eu myname.info myname.org)and internet brand(myname)..."

Also at their website you can see (c) 2000-2008, but their domain registered only 2 months ago.

Some time ago I received very similar email from other chinese company.

I think that it is a new (spam) method of making money from domain owners. Do not respond them. And if you really need these domains, buy them in other place.

If any of what they are saying is untrue, just delete it & forget it, It,s probably a scam of some kind.

It is SPAM.
Block sender

Yes, there's alot of scam emails, they ask for your information (Name,address,zip code,birth date,city,state.zip,etc..) alot of users have received emails from things they don't belong to. For example I received an email saying that they had 1 million dollars saved in a bank in africa all they needed was all my info and that the money was left by a relative as next of kin,even though I'm not african, I have no relatives in that zone. A simple way of knwoing is did you send an aplication to them, look at the grammar and spelling (really bad how they typed it), is anyone in your household named A.B., do u have a company.