How To Avoid Buying A Domain Name Previously Ruined By Spammers

there is a big different between destroyed by a spammer or by a scammer

spammer = you can put in a few hours and get the name off the blacklists, spamhaus and the likes honor requests quickly

scammer = someone used the site to scam people, this means your potential customers might search the domain and find bad reports on it etc and they wont read the details to see it was owned by someone else

in that case id advise that unless its a great name avoid it, and if you get it make requests by the sites to remove your url given its no longer owned by the scammer and proceed to do whats needed to place positive things in google such as bbb membership etc

Everything Matt said to do I've always done...

Shouldn't he be wearing a Google Chrome T-Shirt instead of Firefox???