Is this real??

[hunter3k]

i have received this email and a friend told me that is false. can you help me?


Hi,

I saw your domain listed for sale several days ago. I was busy and could not contact you at that time.

Is it still available for sale? Have you received any bids from other buyers?

If it's still available for sale please email me your asking price in US dollars.

If you have other good domains for sale feel free to email me the full list with asking prices.

If I can afford your domain I will contact you. Please keep my email address and our correspondence confidential.

Just email me your asking price. If I decide to buy I will contact you as soon as possible.

I run a software development company. We provide custom software development in Linux, Windows XP, MS Access, MS SQL, PHP and Delphi for our clients in USA, Hong Kong, UK and Switzerland. Selling & buying names is not my main business. Just another way to invest free money and make some income.

Kindest regards,

Jack Martin

CEO

MCSE, MCSD

Swiss Software Consulting

Products/Services:Billing-Direct, Cost Analysis & Revenue Assurance Software

 

[LeeRyder]

ya..when you reply..he will tell you he needs it appraised at one of 2 or 3 comapnies.

stay far far away from this asshole.

can you im me the header of the email please?

 

[daughterofeve]

hmm, the actual email address of the guy would be nice too... you could possibly trace it back to a domain too, if it isn't something like yahoo or gmail...

LOL, it's funny though.. the person asked you to keep it confidential!!! isn't that just a red warning sign to immediatley post this where dozens of people can see it!!

 

[{insert name here}]

Please keep my email address and our correspondence confidential.

Sounds fishy to me! As soon as I saw that I would have just deleted it!

 

[hunter3k]

the email is: <[email protected]>, what do you think?

 

[jberryhill]

Toughguy.net is a free, anonymous pop3 email provider. Large international businesses use that sort of thing all of the time - the dutch national lottery, Nigerian oil millionaires, etc.

 

[jim]

googed

the email is: <[email protected]>, what do you think?

do a google search of "[email protected]" he's there and so is the answer

jim

 

[yandig]

I got an e-mail from [email protected] a few months ago:
Same thing - appraisal scam.

 

[{insert name here}]

I hope its not the same mike murphy I know

 

[smadison]

Reply-to and email addresses are meaningless

Just to put an end to what seems to be fairly pointless speculation--

If you really want to know who someone is, Reply-to and email addresses are fairly meaningless. First of all, the Reply-to can be set to anything, regardless of the mail server and account from which the email is sent. Most spammers use some sort of relay server with a bogus Reply-to that looks, in your email client, like [email protected].

If you want to see who actually sent you an email, you need to investigate full headers. In Outlook, you need to open the email, then go to View > Options, and scroll through the header information. There, you will find the first Received: from, or if you're lucky, an X-Originating-Ip. Both of these will give you better clues than the Reply-to you see in the short headers that are normally displayed.

You can then try a reverse-lookup on the IP, but chances are fairly good that if your sender is using an anonymous proxy relay, anonymous email subscription, or even a relay through an open SMTP server, you'll need more information than can be obtain through emails to track someone down.

 

[hunter3k]

thanks for all

 

[yandig]

Here's the link to my post asking the same question a few months back:

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=54913&highlight=toughguy.net

 

[Dika]

can you im me the header of the email please?

The headers (my mail changed ):

Received: from [38.113.3.71] (helo=smtp-out.hotpop.com)
          by nirvana.yohst.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43)
          for [email protected]; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:06:49 -0500
Received: from toughguy.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103])
          by smtp-out.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E48C711CF4FC
          for <[email protected]>; Tue,  9 Nov 2004 20:06:40 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from DIAMOND (ppp134-89.dialup.mtu-net.ru [62.118.134.89])
          by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8139F1A024E
          for <[email protected]>; Tue,  9 Nov 2004 19:35:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: "M Murphy" <[email protected]>
...

... first two parts the same as in prev. ...
Received: from DIAMOND (unknown [213.140.249.242])
        by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 073D11A0216
        for <[email protected]>; Tue,  9 Nov 2004 18:28:56 +0000 (UTC)
...

... first two parts the same as in first one. ...
Received: from 040e125e5a894b5 (unknown [213.140.225.249])
        by smtp-3.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 19FD2F95A44
        for <[email protected]>; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:58:08 +0000 (UTC)
...

 

[Acroplex]

213.140.249.242
213.140.225.249
62.118.134.89

All Russian ISPs.

 

[Jeff]

the email is: <[email protected]>, what do you think?

Scarey! :o

All Russian ISPs.

:bingo: :imho:

 

[Jeff]

Spammer!

Anyone check on these MCSE, MCSD certifications, respective Boards ... as yet?!? :gl:

Received today:

From: "Thomas Berg" <tbergman @ toughguy.net>
To: <me>
Subject: Bid on <domain name>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:19:47


Hi,

I'm writing regarding your domain for sale. I saw it about two weeks
ago but I was busy and could not contact you at that time.

Is it still available for sale? Have you received any bids from other
buyers?

Please email me your asking price in US dollars.

If I can afford your domain I will contact you. Please keep my email
address and our correspondence confidential.

I run a software development company. We provide custom software
development in Linux, Windows XP, MS Access, MS SQL, PHP and Delphi for our
clients in USA, Hong Kong, UK and Switzerland. Selling & buying names is
not my main business. Just another way to invest free money and make
some income.

Kindest regards,

Thomas Berg

CEO

MCSE, MCSD

Swiss Software Consulting

Products/Services:Billing-Direct, Cost Analysis & Revenue Assurance
Software

 

[kw31]

I recieved the email 2 weeks ago too, replied by asking how his appraisal scam is doing
No reply since yet

 

[zaros64]

Angry APPRAISAL scammer
how it works:

1. guy says he is interested in YOur Domain name
2. Wants to be FAIR to pay you MARKET price!!!
3. "suggests" reputable appraisal outfit (which he probably owns)
4. or he gets a good commission!
5. once you get the apprasal done...he has many excuses why he cant buy your name or says..."i am still looking for buyer"!!


there are many are around! so watch out if you own domain names!

one of them goes by the name of Jack Martin and/or George Bergman.



Please beware of him. His e-mails are [email protected] or [email protected].

he is wanted in many forums!!


BEWARE

Taken from http://www.anforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=733#post733