diff --git a/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.js b/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.js
index 734cecc7d..41c671eee 100644
--- a/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.js
+++ b/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.js
@@ -99,14 +99,9 @@ class CreateReactMicroService extends Command {
       .findNodeModules({cwd: __dirname})
       .map(modulesPath => path.join(__dirname, modulesPath))
       .find(modulesPath =>
-        file.existsSync(
-          path.join(modulesPath, scaffoldPackageName)
-        )
+        file.existsSync(path.join(modulesPath, scaffoldPackageName))
       );
-    const scaffoldPackagePath = path.join(
-      modulesPath,
-      scaffoldPackageName
-    );
+    const scaffoldPackagePath = path.join(modulesPath, scaffoldPackageName);
     const scaffoldPackageJson = file.require(
       path.join(scaffoldPackageName, 'package.json')
     );
@@ -203,7 +198,7 @@ class CreateReactMicroService extends Command {
       const namespace = str
         .replace(/\s/g, '-')
         .replace(/[0-9]/g, '')
-        .replace(/[^a-zA-Z]g/g, '')
+        .replace(/[^a-zA-Z-]/g, '')
         .toLowerCase();
 
       return `@${namespace}/`;
@@ -271,7 +266,7 @@ class CreateReactMicroService extends Command {
     const srcGitIgnore = path.join(cwd, '.git-ignore');
 
     if (file.existsSync(srcGitIgnore)) {
-      file.renameSync(srcGitIgnore, path.join(cwd, '.gitignore'))
+      file.renameSync(srcGitIgnore, path.join(cwd, '.gitignore'));
     }
 
     await Command.exec('git', ['init'], opts);
diff --git a/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.spec.js b/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.spec.js
index b1cd4c338..a723e32bc 100644
--- a/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.spec.js
+++ b/packages/create-react-microservice/src/commands/default.spec.js
@@ -462,6 +462,45 @@ describe('new Command().safelyCreateNpmScopeArg()', () => {
       '@foo-bar-baz/'
     );
   });
+  it('should remove all special characters', async () => {
+    const specialChars = [
+      '~',
+      '!',
+      '@',
+      '#',
+      '$',
+      '%',
+      '^',
+      '&',
+      '*',
+      '(',
+      ')',
+      '_',
+      '|',
+      '+',
+      '=',
+      '?',
+      ';',
+      ':',
+      ',',
+      '.',
+      '<',
+      '>',
+      '{',
+      '}',
+      '[',
+      ']',
+      '\\',
+      '/',
+      "'",
+      '"',
+      '`',
+      '´'
+    ];
+    expect(
+      instance.safelyCreateNpmScopeArg(`${specialChars.join('')}foo-bar`)
+    ).toBe('@foo-bar/');
+  });
 });
 
 describe('new Command().printStartInstructions()', () => {