Hi,
This is a smart way to scam so I do not have 100% prof BUT here is what happened you be the judge (I removed the domain name that was offered to be bought and replaced it with DOMAIN1.COM):
I got these email from a google account :
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Subject :Offer to buy your domain name: DOMAIN1.COM - domain nameresellers
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are interested to buy your domain name DOMAIN1.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
NxxxOxxxxx.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,
Yours truly,
Charles Johnson
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Well I was thinking to myself I was not thinking about selling this DOMAIN1.COM so lets see how much do these appraisals cost and the cheapest bulk appraisals was offered by NxxxOxxxxx.com (the name was remove) - Well I have worked with sedo.com
and the site accuratedomains.com looks OK with nice PR.
So I did not do check NxxxOxxxxx.com throughly and I ordered a bulk amount of appraisals.
I assumed that is was a solid company since it was written int he email
Quote:
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...following leading appraisal ..
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and it was between sedo.com and accuratedomains.com .
I paid and got an appraisal but then when I emailed the buyer I got nothing back. A week has passed. and I get a new email to another admin email of mine:
Quote:
Subject: Offer to buy your domain name: DOMAIN2.COM - domain name resellers
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are interested to buy your domain name DOMAIN2.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
zzzzz2.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,
Yours truly,
J. Harris
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This time it is the same formated email just another domain and "the suspected scam is now zzzzz2.com"
I looked at both zzzzz2.com and NxxxOxxxxx.com and found that both look a like both had no PR.
I'm so stupid - on the first email I got the NxxxOxxxxx.com domain had the following on the bottom of the front page :
"copyright ? 2009 NxxxOxxxxx Appraisals "
Well I guess I was scammed to believe it was one of the "leading appraisal" companies out there
It is a good scam since I got scammed to pay for a service that I get and I have no prof that I got scammed other then my suspicions
I wanted to warn you all not to get tricked l did
IF you got such emails please share your findings.
ALSO VERY IMPORTANT - the conclusion is go with well know established companies
Next time it is only Sedo for me