I'm unemployed, desperate & homeless! Please return my domain name!

[lzy]

So I received an email from the previous owner of a domain name I've acquired via TDNAM, demanding that I handover his "virtual home" and at the same time describing how pitiful he is;

Getting fired from his job, unable to pay the mortgage of his home and yet...

..threatens to email everyone he knows about my deed then when I offered a solution to his problem (being unable to access the email for his domain name).

He refused and threatened to use his last sum of money to buy a one way ticket to my country to look for me and depend on me for food & shelter unless I return him his domain name.

He ended up offering $100 for the name and when I refused his offer (having paid way more and with him being so absolutely ludicrous), he's now asking me where he should go, having no money left.

So what do you guys think? Fact or fiction? How should I reply him?

 

[dman_2007]

Check where the emails are from... You can see what servers send it out etc, if its from some ugly country just block him as itll be a scam for sure.

Please don't generalize, no country is ugly. Every country has its fair share of unethical and immoral people.

 

[Mike]

EASY folks. Keep it professional.

Emotions run high when a scam is suspected - voice it as such and give your best recommendation, but avoid low blows. Each every one of you is better than having to resort to that.

Thanks,

M.

 

[ARonald]

You haven't stolen the domain. The domain expired went to tdnam auction with multiple bidders interested and you put in your money and time to acquire it, End of the story. You need not feel threatened by any actions of his.

 

[lzy]

He is a scammer in Asia or eastern Europe just looking to sucker you out of your name.

...I'm from Asia and your "scammer" is from US...

I decided to ignore him and after pestering me awhile more, he said something along the lines that if he were to lose everything, he might as well lose his domain name as well. :yell:

Guess that wraps everything up.

 

[onewordonly]

I would just totally ignore him.

edit: I see you have done that and it worked, well done!

 

[Smartphone]

Ignore him and he will go away, they always do.