Beware of scammers

[guillermobt]

Please, take much care with SCAMMERS !

I posted my "geoinfo.net" domainname yesterday under the appraisals category and, today, I found the next e-mail message at my mailbox:

Hello,

Please email me price for the name mentioned in the subject line.

If you have other domain names for sale please send us the complete list with prices for consideration.

I'm a very busy person so it may take several hours before I respond

By the way, investing in domain names is not the main direction of our investing strategy but a good way to generate additional income.

Looking forward to do business with you.

Regards,
Jon Sonnenberg
Vice President
Skalle Investment

Don't lose your time/money with such kind of e-mails as they are scamm-template-emails with the only intention of trying to get some benefit from you.

BTW, my answer was this:

God morgon.. or may I say: Privet ?

Your e-mail doesn't throw any confidence to me.

You're writting from a Russian dial-up IP, hiding your real e-mail behind a WhoisGuard service account and pretending to be writting under the name of a non existing bank whose website ( www.skallebank.com) shows a parked page at Webhuset ISP from Norway.

I'm also a very busy person, so please, don't waste my time with your scamm attempts.

Yours faithfully.

James Bond
Secret Agent
Brittish Crown Ltd.

 

[accent]

Generally they will want you to buy an appraisal from a company they are in cahoots with. You pay for the appraisal and if you even hear from them again then they say the name does not fit their needs.

Before I knew about this common scam I replied with a price on a name they found at Sedo - I guess my price was so low they didn't think I would go for the appraisal, they never replied.

 

[Kate]

It's the operaen scam, using a different name.

 

[sibaong]

100% Operaen Scam *search "operaen" at NamePros quick search

 

[cache]

how do people know this is a scam? (How to check the real IP?)

 

[bbalegere]

OH!
I get plently of such mails.
I just mark them as spam.
Check your email headers for more info on the sender.(IP Address etc...)

 

[accent]

This one is probably the most common scam out there - unless you count the letter to renew your domain with registrars you never heard of or to buy search engine submission. So we know it because we have seen it. " ... investing in domain names is not the main direction of our investing strategy but a good way to generate additional income." or similar wording is in all of this type I have seen and the sender usually appends "PhD" to his or her name.

More generally the request for appraisal (you pay) or some unknown escrow is the tip off.

Another scam is "I'll send you a big Money Order if you would send a smaller Money Order to my friend". (countless variations) The Money Order you receive is fake (looks real) but it takes a long time for it to bounce.

 

[Keynes]

I generally don't respond -- any reply, even a proper one, fuels their fire. Also anyone who says "I'm a very busy person..." is probably not.

 

[Jo]

Many of us have received such emails. I found out it was a scam by searching here at namepros and checking out the links on the sender's email. I know of one friend who fell for it last year.

BTW:

Yours faithfully.

James Bond
Secret Agent
Brittish Crown Ltd.

That cracked me up! :lol:

 

[omnia]

As with all spammers/scammers they never give up. See the variations described above regularly enough. Straight into the junk they go.

 

[gazzip]

Yours faithfully.

James Bond
Secret Agent
Brittish Crown Ltd.


:hehe: I luv the reply ! I bet the scammer had a good laugh at it too !



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