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HioxIndia is a spammer.

They (1) spam email addresses harvested from whois records, (2) spam blogs with bogus comments and links to their crappy sites, and (3) spam forums with fake users pretending to be legitimate customers and reviewers.

In fact, HioxIndia even runs at least one fake "review" site (hostingcompanieslist.com) where it ranks itself as #1 in all categories.

HioxIndia spammed our forum here in October: post#7 by rakshana of the Suggested Web Hosts thread.
And I addressed their fake spam here when I had the time: my reply in post#10 of the Suggested Web Hosts thread.

As mentioned in our Spammer Dedication thread, legitimate companies do not need to spam forums, period! Most spammers tend to be after little more than your money or financial details. They're not overly interested in providing you with quality products and services. They just want money from suckers dumb enough to fall victim to their spamming. Don't be fooled.


Sample of email spam:

I received this garbage from them today:
Code:
From sales Sat Jan  7 01:00:58 2012
X-Apparently-To: xxxxxx@yahoo.com via 98.139.220.176; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:59:58 -0800
Return-Path: <promohiox@promo.conif.com>
Received-SPF: none (domain of promo.conif.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
Authentication-Results: mta1156.mail.sk1.yahoo.com  from=promo.conif.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=promo.conif.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)
DomainKey-Status: no signature
Received: from promo.conif.com ([70.38.88.163]) by <snipped> with MailEnable ESMTP; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:59:39 +0200
Received: from localhost.localdomain (not-assigned.privatedns.com [209.172.54.123]) by promo.conif.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q0794D0g011020 for <<snipped>>; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 04:05:10 -0500
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 04:00:58 -0500
To: <snipped>
From: sales <promohiox@promo.conif.com>
Reply-to: sales <promohiox@promo.conif.com>, Sales <Sales@hioxindia.com>
Subject: Unbelievable Domain and Hosting Offer!
Message-ID: <e998c2d8458009c01ed762c7e0b168d1@localhost.localdomain>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.1 (phpmailer.sourceforge.net)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="b1_e998c2d8458009c01ed762c7e0b168d1"
Content-Length: 145353
Code:
We are glad to introduce ourselves as HioxIndia which is one of the leading providers of Domain Name and Web Hosting in India.
As a New Year special offer, we provide worldwide domain names at unbelievable price in HioxIndia.
Register your desired .com domain name
just Rs.429 or $8.12, .in domain @ Rs.99 or $1.9 and org⋅in domain @ Rs.110 or $1.94. In addition to this, we also provide 5 % discount on all our hosting packages. You can make use of this golden opportunity.
We assure 99.9% website uptime and dedicated support for our customers. Being in this field for 8 years, we have grown consistently from the beginning with the credit of over 10000 happy customers all over the world.
Also monitor your website uptime for 15 minutes interval FREE!!!! With www.100pulse.com
Awaiting to fulfill your hosting needs.
Regards,
Hiox India Team
PHP Code:
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We are glad to introduce ourselves as <span style="font: bold 14px/18px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HioxIndia</spanwhich is one of the leading providers of <span style="font: bold 14px/18px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326150481260526">Domain Name and Web Hosting in India.</span>
<
br/><br/>As New Year special offerwe provide worldwide domain names at unbelievable price in HioxIndia.<br/>
<
a href="http://hioxindia.com/checkAvailability.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" a33d52ce="true"><span id="lw_1326151268_0" class="yshortcuts">Register your desired .com domain name</span></a><div c55294147136e6997c="hioxindia.com" style="display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; width: 16px; height: 16px;"> </div
<
span style="font: bold 18px/18px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(107, 137, 23);"just Rs.429 or $8.12</span>, .in domain 
<
span style="font: bold 18px/18px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(107, 137, 23);">Rs.99 or $1.9 </span> and org&#8901;in domain @ 
<span style="font: bold 18px/18px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(107, 137, 23);">Rs.110 or $1.94</span>. In addition to thiswe also provide 5 discount on all our hosting packagesYou can make use of this golden opportunity.<br/><br/>
We assure <span style="color: rgb(0, 142, 210);">99.9%</spanwebsite uptime and dedicated support for our customersBeing in this field for 8 yearswe have grown consistently from the beginning with the credit of over 10000 happy customers all over the world.
<
br/><br/>Also monitor your website uptime for 15 minutes interval FREE!!!! With <a href="http://100pulse.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" a33d52ce="true"><span id="lw_1326151268_1" class="yshortcuts">www.100pulse.com</span></a><div c55294147136e6997c="100pulse.com" style="display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; width: 16px; height: 16px;"> </div><br/>
<
br/>Awaiting to fulfill your hosting needs.<br/><br/><br/></p><div style="width: 200px; padding-left: 55px; font: bold 14px/20px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards,</div><div style="width: 200px; height: 40px; padding-left: 55px; font: bold 14px/40px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hiox India Team    <img/></div></div>[/noparse
Quite a few scammy/spammy domain registration services will steal unregistered domains, which makes this spam look especially suspicious. The scripts will log what you've looked up, and the owners of those sites will register the domains. It's a blackhat variation of "domain tasting" and is domain squatter behavior. They buy a domain for under $10 in hopes to sell it to you for $50, $100 or even far more.

Notice that the email linked to the page hioxindia.com/checkAvailability.php


This company should be avoided at all costs.

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