.Mike

Scam 1) Do you remember that guy who was emailing everyone and offering whatever we wanted on our domains then telling us we had to pay $50 for an appraisal before he would buy - yes? well here is something else that is linked to him (I know this from the digging I done at the time) - it seems innocent and like a good opportunity, but if you approach one of these ‘wants’ you have just invited Mr. X to tell you to get an appraisal first for 50$ (then once he has the money he will vanish)... here is the email to watch out for (the email came from domains@phreaker.net - kind of gave it away as well):

Subject: Domains wanted from $300 to $50,000 USD

Dear Domain Holder,

This is Julie Troitskaya from http://dnsales.profit.com.

Our company is happy to introduce you a new service for domain sellers and buyers: "Domains Wanted Ads".

You can join the domains wanted board at http://www.dnsales.profit.com/wanted.htm

This service is very effective if you are selling domains and web sites.

Here are only several subjects of domains wanted ads:

- Investing / Financial domains wanted.

- Hyphenated .coms, .infos and .nets wanted. Up to $ 1,250 per name.

- Domains Wanted For A Hosting/Free e-Mail Service. Budget: $1,000-$2,000 USD.

- Domains Wanted For A Gaming Web Site.

- Looking for a memorable name for a gaming forum site.

- Looking for 2 - 5 letter .com / .us / .biz .info. $1,300.

- Hosting , Wireless , Webmaster Forums and Domain Auctions related names wanted. > $8,500 USD.

- Domains Wanted (For New Business/Trade Portal). Budget $11,000.

- Domain name for a new search engine wanted. < $8,000.

- We are looking for adult /sex / escort domains. $2,000 USD.

- Domain name wanted for an upcoming domain registration site.

- DVD & CD & MP3 domains wanted. Payment by check/wire/PayPal.

- Domains wanted for a coming single/dating site. Budget: 3,000 USD.

- Buying loan, credit and mortgage names. $10K.

- Web Hosting Names Wanted.

....

You'll find more ads at http://www.dnsales.profit.com/wanted.htm

I wish you GOOD LUCK on the domain market !

Sincerely,

Julie Troitskaya

http://dnsales.profit.com

This is one time email. If you are not interested I won't bother you again.


Scam 2) This one is a nasty little sh*t - basically you get an email from what appears to be eBay saying you have the opportunity to become a power seller all you have to do is follow the link in the email (hmmm? - really) and login - I obviously didn't go that far but I would guess once you log in you will get a 'page error' while Mr Sh*t goes off and does lots of nasty things with your eBay account - The obvious give away for me on this was that they sent the email to an address that I don't use very often - however if it had come to my proper eBay email account it would have been very hard to spot (short of the 'login through this link' giveaway).
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/96812-few-new-spam-emails-i-have.html

Is it just me or does anybody else get scams like these daily?

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