An obscure Chinese domain name that’s for sale on the Internet, wpad.cn (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery). Due to a decade-old Windows bug that Microsoft first fixed in 1999, Windows computers erroneously looking for network configuration information (wpad.dat) via this domain, which could be used to mine information like account names and account numbers. Nobody knows why it continue to get so much traffic long after Microsoft patched the flaw, maybe from older version of Windows or even misconfigured servers on the network. RMB12,000 is a hot deal for any fraudsters out there.

Now, if only wpad.cn owners (Aomei New Investment Consulting) know about the WPAD issue, they would probably charge more.