discuss Does this sound like a scam?

[bonin]

Yesterday I received this email, what did you think? fraud or a real query?

Hope you're doing well.
Can you give me a price for this domain?

Thank ( missing S )
(Initial + Surname)

the email is (Initial + Surname)[email protected] I could not find any information about the name and e-mail in google.

Thanks

 

[PAVAN]

Most probably a genuine query.
I suggest you reply with your offer price and wait for response.

 

[Tshombe]

Maybe ask him/her to nominate a price and see what their response is? Definitely someone who doesn't want you to find out their identity. On the other hand most scammers always try too hard to prove that they are genuine and don't hide their "real" identity. GL.

 

[MR Harrist]

most CEO, or big shoot! never reply my email more than 2 sentence! their favorite words only
"how much", and no thanks! lol
btw most scammer, will give you long emails! but if the email short and strait to the point! maybe he don't have a lot of times!

 

[bonin]

I asked him to make an offer, The domain is listed with make an offer for a very long time

 

[tonyk2000]

mass spam mailing from a domainer. There was a thread about it some time ago.

 

[namerav]

You should reply with BIN if you have one and see for couple of days for reply.

 

[frank-germany]

treat it as a legit inquiry from a huge company

 

[BrandMart]

the email is (Initial + Surname)[email protected] I could not find any information about the name and e-mail in google.

No big company use a free email service. Perfect example of Spam / Scam email. Ignore

 

[bonin]

No big company use a free email service. Perfect example of Spam / Scam email. Ignore

I asked him to make an offer, but my 6th sense tells me tath is 95% scam

 

[lock]

I got same email. It isn't genuine.

 

[bonin]

I got same email. It isn't genuine.

So, the chance that this is a real request is close to 0 Thank you @lock

 

[lock]

I got a similar email for same domain a year ago . Last week I got same wording exact email.

 

[bonin]

I got a similar email for
same domain a year ago and again last week.

Can you PM me the email address

 

[lock]

sure I will forward you the exact email if you like.

 

[lock]

We have confirmed it is same email

 

[frank-germany]

No big company use a free email service. Perfect example of Spam / Scam email. Ignore

better ignore this advice

 

[tonyk2000]

Historically, an author of these emails:

- was unable to visit the domain itself where BIN price was shown

- used various "aliases": one time he is "Scott", another time he is "Charles", etc.

 

[namemarket]

No big company use a free email service. Perfect example of Spam / Scam email. Ignore

Not correct. It's actually quite common for a big company or business to use a proxy employee or person acting as an agent, who more often than not uses a gmail address and a name (often only first name or last name) such as james1445/at/gmail.com to hide firms identity.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Thanks for the information. It does certainly appear to be non-genuine from same going to a different person. What is not clear to me is what the plan for the scam is? What do they hope to get out of this? Or after contact do they try to sell you on some kind of agent agreement? Just wondering for those who have dealt with these.