Domain offer spamming

[DomainLeads.net]

Every week I recieve emails with domainname offers
similar to the domainnames I own. Of course this person
-Alex mostly- want to sell his domains but what is the
reason doing this over one year now? Obviously
I am not interested!

Can you tell me something about this scam?

Thanks!

 

[FX]

maybe your only his one end-user - just hit junk for his email and be done with it.

 

[DomainLeads.net]

I did so several times but he (or she or whatever it is)
keeps spamming with other emailadresses. Pretty irritating.
But thanks for the advice!

 

[Kate]

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/748546-backorderzone-com.html

 

[Name Trader]

There isn't much you can do apart from never reply and consign the email to the junk.

 

[dombastic]

Every week I recieve emails with domainname offers
similar to the domainnames I own. Of course this person
-Alex mostly- want to sell his domains but what is the
reason doing this over one year now? Obviously
I am not interested!

Can you tell me something about this scam?

These name are usually completely useless.

These people are idiots. I hope they spend all their money soon.

 

[N-A]

I used to like replying offers of .com's that aren't registered or near to their grace period, then toying them along until it's too late. I thought that at one point, if I or enough people did this, they would run out of funding. Or perhaps, people actually bought them. Who knows. I don't entertain it anymore.

 

[NameFit]

Another variation of such emails is that if you hold a ..com, and they say would you like to acquire .net, actually some of them were good hints and registered .net to be on safe side. (Other way around also it happened, I grabbed the .com)

 

[Ujjwal Swami]

Every week I recieve emails with domainname offers
similar to the domainnames I own. Of course this person
-Alex mostly- want to sell his domains but what is the
reason doing this over one year now? Obviously
I am not interested!

Can you tell me something about this scam?

Thanks!

There are lot of scams in domain name industry be aware of that.
sometime you gets mail from unknown person and he gives you more value than a domain name deserve dont belive study more scams then it would be clear to you

 

[Vinod R]

I too get many from Alex. Just mark as spam, it again makes to the inbox with another email. There is nothing much we can do from our side though.

 

[The New Guy]

This is why I love whois privacy.

 

[FPForum]

Is he including the same domain in the emails? If so, you can probably add that domain into your filter and all emails that contain the domain he is trying to sell will get filtered.

 

[dombastic]

They take your domain name, add some nonsense characters to it and offer it as a "similar domain". And it really is similar, because it contains your whole domain name, except that the additional characters make it completely worthless.

Different domains, different gmail and yahoo accounts.

 

[iAchilles]

I used to like replying offers of .com's that aren't registered or near to their grace period, then toying them along until it's too late. I thought that at one point, if I or enough people did this, they would run out of funding. Or perhaps, people actually bought them. Who knows. I don't entertain it anymore. :P

Fantastic idea!

I had about 20 of these emails, just replied quickly to about 5 offering 5k, when I see they've registered the domains I'll point out that my offer was in Vietnamese Dong.

 

[cocaseco]

I used to like replying offers of .com's that aren't registered or near to their grace period, then toying them along until it's too late. I thought that at one point, if I or enough people did this, they would run out of funding. Or perhaps, people actually bought them. Who knows. I don't entertain it anymore. :P

lol...I do the same thing.