Is domaining becoming a "Nigerian" Scam?

decades80 · May 4, 2016

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Dear Robert -
Hi,
I have a favor to ask. I am not making domain sales per se. I am sending you my domains list because a disabled old lady in our apartment complex faces eviction. If this happens, the process alone will be extremely hard on her mental and physical health.

I do not have any funds other than a few of my domains to help her out. Her deadline is in 24 hours. I am requesting to you as a kind domainer if you can buy 1 or more domains from the list. These are my end user quality, business launch niche domains.

This is a loss proposition for me. But a win if I can save someone from being homeless. The church and social services here do not help monetarily. Most names cost me more just to renew. I need to generate $900 to keep the old lady from getting an eviction notice. Even 1 name purchase will go a long way. I am extremely grateful for your help and I am sure you will profit many fold from either a flip sale or from a motivated end user. Either way you will come on top.

$39 each. If you are first to reply, you get the name. 1 or more is appreciated. Your help will go a long way. You have a great deal here as well.

Terms : Payment via PayPal friends and family option only. My phone is 352 3906303. Please email first if you wish to speak with me. I am not always by the phone. I thank you for your kindness. Here is the list.

AKIYABANK.COM - Distressed property bank.
ANTIMALWAREAPP.COM
ANTIMALWAREAPPS.COM
ANTIRANSOM.COM
ANTIRANSOMWARE.COM
AUTOBREWERYSYNDROME.COM - Disease.
BABYORGANICSUPPLIES.COM
BABYORGANICSUPPLY.COM
BAROTSE.COM -
BAROTSELAND.ORG - Newest country to be in Africa.
BOBACOMPANY.COM
BOBATEASUPPLIES.COM
BONN.me - Quarter million in population German city.
BUBBLETEAMAKER.COM
CONFECTIONERY.CLUB
COSTPERACTION.IN - CPA business in India.
DISTRIBUTOR.WS
DISTRIBUTORS.WS
DRONEAPPDESIGN.COM
DRONEAPPDESIGNER.COM
DRONEAPPDESIGNS.COM
ETHERCOINPRICE.COM
FAKEANTIVIRUS.COM
FUNNELWEBSITES.COM - Hot trend in funnel sites.
GORALI.COM - Last name + Mideast Food item.
GUNTV.CO
GUTFERMENTATION.COM
HAOHANQIAO.COM - World's longest glass bottom bridge.
HIPHOPAUDITION.COM - Plural taken.
HOVERBOARDAPPS.COM
HUVRBOARDS.COM
IOTAFFILIATE.COM - Internet of things affiliate.
KITCHENISTAN.COM
KYRGYZSTAN.IO
LIFEISWHATIMAKEIT.COM
MOBINAR.XYZ - Mobile webinar.
MULTIMILLIONDOLLARBUSINESS.COM
NEPALECOTOURS.COM
OCEANSCRAPERS.COM - Under ocean building scrapers.
ORGANICBABYMALL.COM
ORGANICBABYOUTLET.COM
ORGANICBRANDY.COM
RANSOMWAREDEFENDER.COM
REALBHUTAN.COM
ROGUEANTIVIRUS.COM
SALESFUNNELS.CO
SINKHOLE.XYZ
SINKHOLEMONITOR.COM
SINKHOLES.XYZ
TAJIKISTAN.IO
TAROTAMERICA.COM
TINYCONSTRUCTIONS.COM
TINYDESIGNERS.COM
TINYHOLIDAYRENTAL.COM
TINYHOLIDAYRENTALS.COM
TINYHOME.IN
TINYHOMEMORTGAGE.COM
TINYHOMES.IN
TINYHOUSETIMESHARES.COM
TINYMOBILEHOME.COM
TOURISMKOSOVO.COM
TURKMENISTAN.IO
UZBEKISTAN.IO
VR3DCAMERA.COM
VRMOVIECAM.COM
VRMOVIECAMERA.COM
VRAPPDESIGNERS.COM
VR3DCAMERAS.COM
Please let me know asap. Time is of critical importance. if I can do this by today, it will mean much.

Thanks
Chris

offersity · May 8, 2016

jideofor said:
You must be joking. It is quite obvious and easy to see you take side with the OP, instead of tell him point blank that he is wrong with such heading. Did you take a look at the whois for instance? Did you?

thanks, I guess im now a racist too? I live in SF, a very 'PC' city. You should consider living here, the city would serve you well.

AndyM · May 9, 2016

enoch0 said:
I just received an email that someone is interested in one of my domain parked but the value is too high and i needed to use a valuation and to use a link they provided lol

SCAM

wolfis.com · May 9, 2016

enoch0 said:
I just received an email that someone is interested in one of my domain parked but the value is too high and i needed to use a valuation and to use a link they provided lol

got one over night - mine is a little different - the "webdeveloper" gives you a high offer on a domain and if you write back o.k. lets start a transaction it ask for a appraisal ... same scam -

the last 12 months about 95 % of all domain name related emails are scam ( and the remaining 5 % are insulting lowball offers ) just nasty people on line anymore but nothing left of honest buying and selling .

i also get a large amount ( and trust me , in domaining for close to 17 years i mean a huge amount ) of emails from of "usually cancer stricken" widows who's husband died in a planecrash who wants to give me 45 million dollars - hmm i must have a lot of rich relatives in central and south america . 99 % of these "long lost relatives" infact emailed me from Ghana and nigeria - this is a FACT .

also please stop using nasty attack messages in this forum - this is a public place of conducting business and harrassing post with mean and nasty language is not needed or wanted here !

NPer · May 9, 2016

Member: IMC that admitted that he is sender, has been confirmed as the sender.

This was his post, but many seemed to have skipped it:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/is-domaining-becoming-a-nigerian-scam.943539/page-2#post-5504631

Last year he sent me (and probably many other members too) a list of domains via PM which he said he needed to sell to pay his ISP to prevent his internet access being disconnected by midnight, etc. I could tell then what his real agenda was especially by the title he chose (apparently commending me on my posts), and phrasing the body of the PM in such a way that he takes the recipient of his PMs tot be a complete fool.

The whois details of the domains he sent via PM last year matches that of the domains listed in this thread that he sent to many of you via email.

Using such stories to get pity and make money off of it is just plain wrong. But hey, he aint the only one hoping to make a buck off the unsuspecting. Look at the 5L chip nonsense-who pumped it and at the same time sold to unsuspecting newbies? There is no difference between these types to be quite honest.

JWS · May 9, 2016

NPer said:
Member: IMC that admitted that he is sender, has been confirmed as the sender.

This was his post, but many seemed to have skipped it:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/is-domaining-becoming-a-nigerian-scam.943539/page-2#post-5504631

Last year he sent me (and probably many other members too) a list of domains via PM which he said he needed to sell to pay his ISP to prevent his internet access being disconnected by midnight, etc. I could tell then what his real agenda was especially by the title he chose (apparently commending me on my posts), and phrasing the body of the PM in such a way that he takes the recipient of his PMs tot be a complete fool.

The whois details of the domains he sent via PM last year matches that of the domains listed in this thread that he sent to many of you via email.

Using such stories to get pity and make money off of it is just plain wrong. But hey, he aint the only one hoping to make a buck off the unsuspecting. Look at the 5L chip nonsense-who pumped it and at the same time sold to unsuspecting newbies? There is no difference between these types to be quite honest.

I personally ignored his post in this thread because the last thing I want to do is get into an argument over whether or not someone's mother is really dying.

Could it be true? Yeah, of course. Does any of what he's saying add up? No, not at all. Is it his internet being cut off? Is it caring for his mother? Is it another elderly woman being evicted? Too many different stories, but not worth trying to call out. I think it's very obvious that whichever story he has gone with over the past year, he's using guilt as a sales tactic to push something on someone who wouldn't necessarily want it, which of course is poor business practice.

Shams · May 11, 2016

I don't want to criticise anyone but these are desperate amateurs Who registered shity domains with coupons in hope to sell at Diamond price. these spammer are increasing day by day. looks like it's daily routine work now. Everyday someone come up with new story, like my mother is in a hospital and she need surgery. LOL let me know that angel doctor who's gonna surgery your mother for few ( Hundred ) bucks. Look at this guy he want to help an old but with only after selling his domains. People to whom he's communicating should kick his ass and slap him on his face.

FavourB · Apr 29, 2019

If you refused to drop Nigerian kindly delete this thread, than to paint some people bad in this industry just because of the country this reside at,
Are you not aware that some people just read tittle of thread and that is it...they begin promoting shit

ivey · Apr 30, 2019

JWS said:
Looks like it's a guy named Chris from Florida (Integrity Media Company) who's been running a similar thing for a while...
http://dn.biz/newsletter/index.php/...t-a-fellow-domainer-all-domains-only-50-each/

Lots of the same names on that list, and that post is from 7 months ago.

Intergrity??? what a name for his company.

Gabriel360 · Apr 30, 2019

First off, I'd like to point out the fact that I do not see any element of racism in the OP's post. But it is ridden with supreme ignorance and egregious misinformation.

The fact that there are scammers in Nigeria is undeniably true. But the same can be said of every single country on this planet. Some scams are so advanced that people simply cannot help but glorify the scammers while they continue to vilify the petty scammers who resort to emotional manipulations to perpetrate their scams. Yet, both of these are scams and should be unequivocally condemned regardless of its form and where it originates from.

But using the identity of a country with over 200 Million people as a derogatory adjective to a word such as 'scam' is unbecoming, unethical and, dare I say, inherently unwise.

There are hardworking people in that country, good people who are simply looking to exploit the limitless opportunities provided by the Internet to make a living for themselves. Life is already too complicated for people, don't make it harder for them by labeling a whole country with diverse persons and morality as complicit to scams.

You don't know how difficult it is to do legitimate online business from a country like that, so it's better you give them a break and look within yourself. If you can so boldly group everybody in the MOST POPULOUS black nation together under the umbrella of being worthy to be used to qualify such a word as 'scam', then you need to reevaluate your thinking.
It doesn't speak of someone of with a balanced mentality and outlook of reality.

It isn't harmless like the OP and a couple of people are making it out to be 'Nigerian' is not just a word. It is a culture. It is a way of life. It is an heritage. And most importantly, 'Nigerian' is a PEOPLE!!!.
It is not proper to use it in such a context as this.

Abiashue lucky · May 1, 2019

Gabriel360 said:
First off, I'd like to point out the fact that I do not see any element of racism in the OP's post. But it is ridden with supreme ignorance and egregious misinformation.

The fact that there are scammers in Nigeria is undeniably true. But the same can be said of every single country on this planet. Some scams are so advanced that people simply cannot help but glorify the scammers while they continue to vilify the petty scammers who resort to emotional manipulations to perpetrate their scams. Yet, both of these are scams and should be unequivocally condemned regardless of its form and where it originates from.

But using the identity of a country with over 200 Million people as a derogatory adjective to a word such as 'scam' is unbecoming, unethical and, dare I say, inherently unwise.

There are hardworking people in that country, good people who are simply looking to exploit the limitless opportunities provided by the Internet to make a living for themselves. Life is already too complicated for people, don't make it harder for them by labeling a whole country with diverse persons and morality as complicit to scams.

You don't know how difficult it is to do legitimate online business from a country like that, so it's better you give them a break and look within yourself. If you can so boldly group everybody in the MOST POPULOUS black nation together under the umbrella of being worthy to be used to qualify such a word as 'scam', then you need to reevaluate your thinking.
It doesn't speak of someone of with a balanced mentality and outlook of reality.

It isn't harmless like the OP and a couple of people are making it out to be 'Nigerian' is not just a word. It is a culture. It is a way of life. It is an heritage. And most importantly, 'Nigerian' is a PEOPLE!!!.
It is not proper to use it in such a context as this.

I totally agree with your post. Such misuse of the name of a nation should be highly condemned. If the OPs is sinscere enough, he should have seen the need to edit that title and remove Nigerian from it. He might have some hidden agenda to paint Nigerians bad. Thia is very wrong!

karmaco · May 2, 2019

You realize you bumped a long lost 3 year old thread back to the top?

MasterOfMyDomains · May 2, 2019

time to close this thread @decades80
Its not doing any good. I have two friends on here from nigeria, both very nice people and to lump them in with scammers because there are nigerian scams or were
Name the person, not their citizenship
Can you close please?

E-Promote · May 2, 2019

Scams are easy to identify, just learn to identify. This goes way beyond domaining, it goes on all the time where there is $ changing hands. It's up to you, be a sucker or don't be a sucker.

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