They (probably) will (eventually) transfer the domain, so they're just spammers now.
They used to be scammers in that they pretended to be the domain registry and tricked people into thinking they must renew with them, or register similar domains, or lose their domain. They're shitbags either way.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Tue 6 Nov 2007, 15:40, archived)