Chinese Domain Name Scam

I've seen these before but just wanted to share the most recent one I've received.  Don't be fooled, these folks are scammers and just want you to pay them.  Here is the email (I've omitted my domain name with a *):
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(If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

Dear CEO,

We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in China, have something need to confirm with you. we formally received an application on April 20th,2010.  one company which called "Brazil Kumued Investment S/A" are applying to register "My Company Name" as Brand Name and Domains.
*.cn
*.com.cn
*.net.cn
*.org.cn
*.hk
*.com.hk
*.tw
*.com.tw
*.asia
But we found that "Brazil Kumued Investment S/A" is not the original owner of the brand and trademark in the checking period,which  belong to your company .I need confirm with you whether your company authorized that company to register these domain name.If you have done that ,We will finish the registration for them and link to their website.
If not ,please let me know ASAP.
In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 7 workdays. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application.

Best Regards,

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Alex Ke(Mr)
Auditing  Consultant

Tel: +0086-556-5186-637     Fax: +0086-556-8730-811

Address:Room407,Building No.22 Hetai Star city, Donghu Road,Guichi District,Chizhoushi,China

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Here are some interesting IP's in the email header.
mail.idcsea.com (202.65.212.35) - Whois Lookup
58.242.152.112 (HELO WANGWENQI) - Whois Lookup
chinadns-tic.org.cn - Can be reviewed http://www.cnnic.net.cn/en/index/

SCCM with Forefront Client

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MS says - "While Configuration Manager plays no role in FCS definition updates, it can be used to automate FCS agent deployments and patches plus provide FCS configuration assessments via a desired configuration management component.". 

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Snow Service Inquiry Level Inquiry Form

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I had absolutely no storage background so obviously for me, something I could easily understand and operate along with my other essential job duties was really important.

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