I Received A Strange Email…

[New2Domaining]

I received a strange email about one of my domain names, someone was offering to sell it to me!!! I took a few minutes to verify that the name they were offering to sell and the name I registered are the same and then a few more minutes to confirm that I had not registered a typo my mistake; there was no typo and the names are the same, in the .com extension.

Even stranger, the email address they used to contact me is not the email address listed in the WHOIS file for that domain. My first thought is that this is some sort of spam or scam and I don’t intend to respond. Has anyone experienced this before? Any insights or feedback about this? I have copied and pasted the email message below.


Senders email address: [email protected]


****************************************
Hey,

We intend to unload one of our cherished assets, commercialphoneservice(.)com.

Would you be keen to discuss this?

This is priced in 4 figures ($1000 to $9999).

Best,
Marina

PS: This is a one-time email. We'll never bother you again!

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho,
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[Traveler]

First time I have heard of that one, that is funny.

 

[biggie]

:talk:


welcome to domaining!


folks will try to sell you names they don't even own and anything else... if they think you'll bite.


keep eyes and ears open and your wallet/purse closed

imo.......

 

[twomoon]

Never knew that Paulo Coelho is selling domains.

 

[techgal128]

The email in the whois is [email protected]. This is yours right? I would think that it is your since you own the domain. If it's yours, it seems like it would make sense that they didn't send it from your email.

Also, did you just recently reg it? If so, maybe they didn't realize that it expired and someone else now has ownership of it. That or it's a lazy scammer. Usually they just add or remove a letter and try to sell it to you since it's similar. Maybe they forgot to do that. :lol:

 

[New2Domaining]

Yes, [email protected] is my email address and the WHOIS address for the name. But that is not the email they used to contact me, they emailed me at another email address I have.

That part is particularly strange and makes want to change passwords and even email addresses.

 

[techgal128]

Yes, [email protected] is my email address and the WHOIS address for the name. But that is not the email they used to contact me, they emailed me at another email address I have.

That part is particularly strange and makes want to change passwords and even email addresses.

Oh, I misunderstood. Are you sure that all of your domains have the same contact info?

 

[New2Domaining]

The email they used to contact me is less than 2 months old and is not an email address I publicize or ask people to contact me at.

All the domains I promote have identical WHOIS info with [email protected].

 

[techgal128]

The email they used to contact me is less than 2 months old and is not an email address I publicize or ask people to contact me at.

All the domains I promote have identical WHOIS info with [email protected].

Creepy. If it's published anywhere such as social media sites, then maybe they used your Whois information to locate that. I doubt that's the case though since it seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through. Eh, probably not worth spending a lot of time thinking about. Might as well just be amused that they really suck at scamming. hehe

 

[.NJ]

This is right along the same emails as "the domain name blah-blah-blah.com is becoming available soon". "secure the name now before it goes public".

Meanwhile..........you can hand-reg the same name.

And you wonder why the domain industry gets a bad rap..............................................

 

[fanturo]

This is funny..

 

[alien51]

Give yourself another year in Domaining, and you will get more of these that you will eventually acquire "spam blindness". A condition where you have tons of spam in your inbox, and yet your eyes could not see them because they have become immune.

 

[4better]

So the question is, how did they find your other email address?

 

[New2Domaining]

I appreciate all the comments guys. Yes, 4better the question is how they got the other email address and why they would go through the hassle of looking for and using it???

As suggested, I will just consider this the work of a lazy scammer who was too lazy to modify the domain name he offered to me. But as a safeguard I will be changing my passwords

Thanks guys!