advice HELP I Think I Just Sold TattooTronics.com For $7300 USD HELP

[EASYPICKINGS]

Hello,

I got a text message... saying..

"Hi hope you're well. It's Kim. You have some offers on your domain if you're selling it. Been sending you messages. Info at (website with my phone number in it)"

I am like what the heck? So I go to the site on my computer, and I see I have several offers for my name
tattootronics.com that I never listed on here. Its called KEM EXPO, kemexpo.com, I am like what the heck,
because I see the offer is $7300.... So I accepted it, I entered my Paypal Email.... It says I will be sent the money..? Is this real people???????

 

[xynames]

My uncle had an item for sale on Craig's list. Two guys showed up and agreed to buy it for $300. They gave him a cashier's check for more than 300, and asked him to accept it and give them the difference in cash back.

My uncle told them he would have to go to the bank to cash it, and did not let them leave with the item either. (They didn't even seem that interested in the item, which was another red flag.)

The bank told him the "cashier's check" was counterfeit. To avoid friction, since these guys now knew where he lived, he simply told them that the bank said that check was not cashable (which of course the guys must've known this would be the end result), and that was the end of that.

What you describe here is a similar scam, with additional nuances.

 

[NYJimbo]

You should change your paypal email address.
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Also, to those saying that if a buyer does a chargeback and you have no funds in your paypal account, they paypal cannot take the money. This may not be true. PP could take the money from your bank account associated with your PP account. But even if they cannot, then they can (and probably will) restrict/suspend your PP account until you fund your PP account it with enough funds to satisfy the chargeback/dispute.

Yes, the transaction is pinned to the account ID, not the email address, so changing it wont help.

Also they would restrict or suspend. After that they would close the account and send it to collections and it ends up on your credit history.

I believe all new accounts require a SSN or for business a EIN, so good luck opening a new one.

Paypal has dealt with this nonsense a million times, they know what to do.

 

[xynames]

All this talk about chargebacks and such it never would have gotten to that point these Kem Expo scammers wanted money going in their direction only.

If they gave up a few cents to entice you to send, that's not real money.

 

[NYJimbo]

All this talk about chargebacks and such it never would have gotten to that point these Kem Expo scammers wanted money going in their direction only.

If they gave up a few cents to entice you to send, that's not real money.

I think we are really just dealing with a subscription scam at this point.

Kinda like the people who try to broker a domain for you to some Asian company BUT you have to do the "certificate" thing before.

In both cases the "buyer" probably just walks away. No real money changes hands, except for the certificate or the subscription.

In the certificate deal you bought a worthless certificate and in the Kem Expo you bought a worthless subscription to their service. Both are valid transactions, just not worth anything to you. I dont think you could charge back either if the company selling you this junk proves they provided the service you paid for.

 

[alcy]

rule#1.... if too good to be true, its not true

rule#2.... if an offer to buy your name, tells you to click on a link as part of process or next step, regardless of the link type or where it leads to, then mark it as scam... save yourself virus link problems or other ways of getting robbed... like identity collection... etc.

cheers.

 

[Asfas1000]

How many more red flags are you waiting to see people..... this is a clear scam.

 

[Watcher2411]

Definitely a scam. I got the same exact sms.

 

[ebaum]

Lets all apply some common sense here guys. Do we all really think there are multiple offers (some more than our asking prices in the first place) on our mediocre domain names. We are all lucky if we can manage to get 1 single inquiry on something let alone multiple offers on the same domain all in a 1 week time span. And all of these interested buyers happen to be using a service that nobody has heard of. Please.

The offers are all fake and random - obviously. The domain owners need to subscribe to this useless service in order to sell. I'm sure that once you subscribe and these "offers" will all magically vanish lol.

In my opinion, if they want to make this scam more believable, just show 1 offer that is realistic. I think that would hook a lot more people. Instead of being far fetched and showing 7 offers....

 

[LincolnLady]

Darn! I got a text from Kim today too and thought that was a pretty nice offer and was thinking I should accept it. Could have used the money!

 

[otismo]

I accepted, via email, an email offer to buy @ $3,000.00

Heard nothing for two months, so I emailed "offer to sell withdrawn"

 

[otismo]

* 3 years ago

and NOT Kem Expo

 

[NameBuyer.com]

How many more red flags are you waiting to see people..... this is a clear scam.

Agreed, full scam. Don't do it...

 

[Mister Funsky]

Also worth mentioning that I have never had this domain listed for sell anywhere.

I will admit I did some quick scanning of the thread...the names that are getting mentioned in the scammers text MUST have something in common if they have not and are not being listed for sale. This tells me a registrar is having intruder issues? Perhaps those of you affected could privately communicate the registrars you are using for those names and let us know.

 

[EbookLover]

Maybe whois data scraping?

 

[okmachan]

I think its another NetSol sponsored scam.

 

[Duanny]

I've been through the same thing. I Have a domain which I never listed and on Wednesday I got the same message as you. Someone offered $7,900 for my domain, I counter offered and the person accepted. When I tried to accept the offer, it said that I needed to have an account with them, and since the value was high, I needed to subscribe to the platinum account, which costs $159 month. Just for the fun of it, I did pay the $159 and I got a message that it would take until Friday 03/05/2019 at 9:48pm to complete the account. When everything was finally set, I tried again to accept the offer and I got another message, saying that my account rose a red flag and now I have to fill out a form, get it signed, notarized and sent to Australia. Since the offer expires tomorrow April 7th 2019, it'll be impossible to accept the offer on my domain. I think this website is a Scam to loure people to pay the $159/month with the hope of selling their domain.

I will dispute the charge with PayPal and see if I can get my money back, since I get no response from their support team.

 

[900Worldwide]

paypal works this way:
if you have no money in your account
they will not refund

Lol not true!

 

[frank-germany]

Lol not true!

then you please pay me 356 €

 

[NYJimbo]

Just for the fun of it, I did pay the $159 and I got a message that it would take until Friday 03/05/2019 at 9:48pm to complete the account. When everything was finally set, I tried again to accept the offer and I got another message, saying that my account rose a red flag and now I have to fill out a form, get it signed, notarized and sent to Australia. Since the offer expires tomorrow April 7th 2019, it'll be impossible to accept the offer on my domain.

I will dispute the charge with PayPal and see if I can get my money back, since I get no response from their support team.

Sure sounds like fun.

 

[900Worldwide]

then you please pay me 356 €

I don’t work for PayPal.