Appraisal Scam

[Sterling]

I have recently got several emails inquiring about a couple of my names. Here is most of that:

Email Subject: Offer to buy your domain name: *******.COM - domain name resellers

Email Summary: Dear sir,


we are interested to buy your domain name *******.COM and offer to buy it from you for 65% of the appraised market value.


As of now we accept appraisals from either one of the following leading appraisal companies:


sedo.com
*****.com
moniker.com
accuratedomains.com

If you already have an appraisal please forward it to us.


As soon as we have received your appraisal we will send you our payment (we use Paypal for amounts less than $2,000 and escrow.com for amounts above $2,000) as well as further instructions on how to complete the transfer of the domain name.


We appreciate your business,


Thanks,


Mark Brown



Why do I think this is a scam you ask? Well, the second appraisal service I looked up and have blacked out was even online 2 months ago. It is a pis* poor put together website plus I had never heard of them.

My thinking is he is sending this all to alot of domain owners thinking that out of all those emails, someone has to order an appraisal from them out of the 4 listed. He just listed the others to make it look good.

Has anyone else recieved this email?

 

[Rockefeller]

This has been posted 10 times in the past week. Just do a search and you'll find them.

 

[nascar59]

you have to keep one step ahead at all times I received several of these emails just learn thru reading

 

[BayArea]

I received the same offer to buy my domain at 65% from this email address "[email protected] When I replied I received a delivery failure notice message. I requested and received an appraisal from Pozde. Anyone know who this guy is or if this is a scam.

BayArea

 

[copper]

I received the same offer to buy my domain at 65% from this email address "[email protected] When I replied I received a delivery failure notice message. I requested and received an appraisal from Pozde. Anyone know who this guy is or if this is a scam.

BayArea

Ouch.
possibly scam.

 

[gariben]

2-3 years ago... they spammed many domainers..

it stopped..

probably started by a copycat

 

[markbowling]

I got one and figured it was a scam

 

[DigiNamesDigiNames is verified member.]

This is an old scam that has been around for several years.

The appraisal company that you have never heard of is the one spamming to "drum up" business, and the guy will never buy your domain...Don't fall for it.

 

[PangoDomains]

I've also been contacted by this guy and think this is a complete scam. The "appraisal" website he is attempting to scam people with is "namesaleshop". He gets you to the website and then tries to entice you to purchase a 3 month membership for $99 EU by putting up bogus wanted ads that look too good to be true. One of the ads was offering to pay up to $25k for a shopping domain. I used compete.com to check the number of visits that this site gets and it is around 700/month. Not exactly a well established appraisal company.

 

[mvl]

One of the most wellknown scams around.

 

[stewie]

yup all the time, delete ...lol

 

[.tv]

I received the same offer to buy my domain at 65% from this email address "[email protected] When I replied I received a delivery failure notice message. I requested and received an appraisal from Pozde. Anyone know who this guy is or if this is a scam.

BayArea

Received a similar appraisal scam email from [email protected].

I started scambaiting appraisal scammers and 419 scammers.

Do not ignore their emails. Teach them an unforgettable lesson.

Have a look at many successful scambaiting stories at: http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm