We are currently getting reports about people receiving fake invoices from an organisation calling itself Domeinregistratie Nederland. Domeinregistratie Nederland has supposedly commissioned a company called Syncasso to collect outstanding domain registration fees. People are being told that they will lose the use of their domain names if they don't pay up. In reality, it is SIDN (the Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands) that holds your .nl domain name registration, and the invoices do not come from SIDN. You should not therefore pay up!
What can you do?
If you receive an invoice from Domeinregistratie Nederland/Syncasso, do not pay it. Report the approach to Fraudehelpdesk.nl.
How can you tell whether an invoice is a fake?
One of the fake invoices is shown below.