My First experience with scams...

[Ignorance]

About a week/week and a half ago I started domaining. Today I got my first e-mail from a buyer interested in purchasing one of my domains. Surprisingly, it was for one of the first domains that I bought. However, I now believe to domain be junk that I got from the general newbie mistake of buying a billion domains that a new person thinks will sell. That was clue number one.

The e-mail contained no good contact info (e-mails, phone numbers, company names, etc.) And that was clue number two.

I decided to Google the "broker's" name and it showed nothing. I then Googled the actual text of the e-mail. Many articles on scams with very similarly worded messages appeared. It was disappointing to see those, to say the least.

On the extreme off chance that it is not a scam I emailed back saying that there is still intent to sell. All transactions would be done through Sedo, and that I would need her company information and initial offer.

So, yay, for not falling for the scam, I guess...sigh

 

[daica85]

You're so wise. Many years ago, I've met this kind of offer and at that time I don't have enough information to check and almost got scammed.

 

[Alfin Fikri]

Dont ever doing transaction with people with no clear contact info.

 

[iwon24]

yeah , when i first started i got the same ! luckily i was a member on here and went through a couple of threads and fount out it was a scam. namepros has helped me a lot from information to sales .

 

[AEProgram]

On the extreme off chance that it is not a scam I emailed back

Sorry but many scams start when people think along the lines of "on the small chance that its legit let me email".

I know the guy offering me wholesale gold is a scammer but what if by chance its real.

I know the guy emailing me claiming to be a king in exile needing to transfer 50 million bucks is a scam but what if he really is a king.

Please be stronger, there are many scams in this and other businesses, your gut was right and research good, why think there is a possibility its not a scam?

Anyway, I am selling a two letter .com domain for $500 bitcoin only, I am going thru a divorce and need the money today, this offer is good for 6 hours only.

Its sad that a big percent of people will fall for the above nonsense.

Glad you lost no money, god bless ya

 

[daica85]

Anyway, I am selling a two letter .com domain for $500 bitcoin only, I am going thru a divorce and need the money today, this offer is good for 6 hours only.

Really? $500 bitcoin ~ $371k. It seem low. right?

 

[trp3]

Well decision, always keep an eye open.