Not new.. it's been mentioned on the list before (as recently as June 12):
http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0306/0108.html
I reported their activity to Tucows several months ago.
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> We've seen another renewal scam being sent to our customers in the last
> couple of days. It's targeted at .biz owners, sent via spam e-mail to the
> WHOIS contact.
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