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Originally Posted by shoval  I came across a group of people, all from Mumbai India after buying from them "traffic domains" . Prattik seems to be part of them. I bought based on parking stats they sent me ( from DS and parked.com) but soon after I bought the domains I found out that they had almost no traffic. Both Parked.com and Domainsponsor verified to me that almost all the clicks on their domains were fraudulent/self clicks. parked.com terminated their accounts. Their "system" seems to be working so that the person who post the domain is NOT the owner but supposedly is posting for a "friend".
the domains I came across were ( that they oferred me to buy)
barclaysrefinance.com
barclayrefinance.com
onlineonslaught.com
usbankfinance.com
tutorial-site.com
icl2020.com
icl20-20.com
ipl20-20.com
usbankrefinance.com
bringmemovie.com
refinancewachovia.com
yamahar15.com
The emails associated with domains that were offered for sale are: chetanbabuta@gmail.com ashes667@gmail.com gauravgurbaxani@yahoo.com sanketptl1@gmail.com prateek.777@gmail.com
The guy who scammed me was Chetan Babuta, and after email exchange with him he did refund me part of the money.
They keep moving between parking comanies untill they get caught. I believe now they park at revenuedirect.com
There should be a better way to warn people here and on Namepros, so that other members do not lose money for their fraud. Their fraud is also damaging to parking companies and to us as domainers, when advertisers find out they were cheated.
in list of email this one should be added: chirag.555@gmail.com |
Shoval,
This is shocking news to me!
I remember you mailing me once about whether I knew one of them (cant remember which 1). That time too I had made it clear that I do not know him personally.
Now let me be more clear. Out of all the people mentioned above, I only know Chirag Shah. Through him, I have bought a couple of domains myself from Chetan. In fact, I had actually been offered usbankfinance.com but I rejected it. From what I know, the DS account that got blocked belonged to Chetan and all of the mentioned people including Chirag used to park their domains in the same DS account.
When this whole chaze fiasco happened, Chirag had told me that the reason behind the DS account getting blocked was that a couple of the above people may have infact been involved in some 'questionable' activities but he had also assured me that the chaze domain was completely clean. Now, I too am having some doubts.
What these guys do and how they do it, I don't know. All I can tell you is that I still park my domains with DS and these are all my domains which receive clean traffic from type-ins, typos etc.
I too buy typos regularly from this forum. Now tell me one thing, if I were involved in such activities, why would I spend thousands of dollars on genuine typos, when I could simply register typos and generate fake traffic to them and then sell them for thousands?
Shoval, as far as the domains that you bough are concerned, it seems that a majority of them have seasonal traffic. Maybe thats why the traffic dies out. For example, icl 2020, ipl 2020 are major cricket leagues in India. Everytime there is a tournament, the traffic should come back. Yamaha r15 is a bike that was recently launched in India. Maybe the traffic died out once the hype over this bike got over. You can rest assured about these names getting their traffic back. As far as the other domains go, you should check with your parking proivider. Maybe the traffic is in fact fraudulent. As far as our so called 'group' from Mumbai goes, I am not part of any such group. I haven't even met any of them other than Chirag.
The fact again is that I was the broker in the chaze deal but now I feel like a victim. I don't know what to do. I feel cheated and violated myself. I am sick and tired of this deal. Steen, I am really sorry for having sold you the domain. Had I any clue whatsoever that this domain could be involved in fraud, I would have thrown it back at Chirag. Now, all I can do is help you in getting the money back from Chirag or atleast get some domains that receive similar earnings. This is the best I can do.
If you are interested in any such resolution, lets keep in touch through email.
Prateek