Domain Appraisal Scam

[Massive]

There are a lot of scammers in the domain business. For example: If you have a new domain name, and these scammers think you are new, they might send you an email with:

Hi,

Interesting domain you have, I am willing to buy it! But I am buying it to resell in the future. So if you can give me a nice price I will buy it..

How much is it worth? If you do an official appraisal here and here and show me I am buying it for 80% of the money.

Regards,
Scammer X

They basicly want you to do a paid appraisal from their company. So they get some money and will not buy the domain name after all.

I received these kind of emails twice now, never replied though, anyone else experienced this?

[Rano]

Lucky for me I never got these kind of mails I also don't own many domains.

[Nomar]

I also got these kind of emails when I just started !

They almost fooled me, I wanted to go for an appraisal but I asked in a forum first and they said, don't do it, SCAM.

Or I had wasted $ 75

[st1905]

They have sent bunch of emails to me. I replied like this "My expected price is 10000 $ if you want to buy it just send a reply" then he or she replied yes 10000$ is ok bla bla but you have to go for an appraisal first. Then i have replied with censored words.

They all come from @bonbon.net usually scammers use this service.

[Nomar]

haha, good one st1905

[st1905]

I`ve received another mail today and it was about moneybookers. They have wanted me to click on a link on that email as usual but instead of clicking i`ve reported that email to authorities.

[killerz]

Luckily I have recieved only one scam email yet but I saved beacuse of my friend, he warned me about the mail. By the way thanks for sharing the information.

[Nomar]

Originally Posted by st1905

I`ve received another mail today and it was about moneybookers. They have wanted me to click on a link on that email as usual but instead of clicking i`ve reported that email to authorities.

happens all the time with me with paypal.. they are saying they need more info or whatever and want me to click the link in the email.. never do that..

always go to paypal.com yourself and check if they need something

[Rano]

thats the way Nomar!