My Story.. A Warning.

[TWM]

Well, i was contacted by someone wanting to purchase a 3 letter domain (LLN). He sounded very excited and quickly agreed to my asking price of 10,000 USD.

He wanted to do everything through escrow.. i was happy with that. He also wanted to domain verified to make sure i was the legal owner. All the while, still showing great interest in the domain and wanting to purchase it ASAP.

We get the verification back on friday afternoon so he says he will talk with me on monday and that he is once again very excited.

Monday roles around and this is what he says, "This is a very nice domain and now that i know you are the legal owner of it, i would like to broker it for you for a 20% commission.

This guy wasted 2 weeks of my time to ask if he could broker it. I was flaming mad! Like FIRE!!!

So i said sure and i havnt heard from him since.

He split the cost of the owner verification, so i am wondering if he owns the company and was just scamming me...

Ill let everyone know the name of the company via PM.. the guys name, email, ect.

Anyone have this happen to them?

 

[SpongyBob]

I wouldn't have agreed to him being the broker if he'd deliberately messed you about like that, and didn't have a buyer. He sounds very untrustworthy. Now that you've agreed to him being the broker, if you now sell it independently, he might try demanding 20% off you.

 

[omnia]

If there was a fee involved which you had to pay I'd have to say its a scam. Sounds like a variation on the "you'll need a valuation" type scam. "Sharing" the costs is a "nice" touch to get you to part with your 1/2 of the "fee". (pun unintended)

 

[rtonia]

I'm just thinking that this guy maybe an employee of the company that has the authorisation to buy this name from you, so he was just asking for some commisions if the deal gets through.

 

[Untitled]

Hey Pls PM me

I have already been cheated by a host once!!!

So please Send me the PM now

Thank you,

Untitled

 

[readyman]

I hope that you post this in every domain forum you can think of because it seems like a new (or new to me) scam. I am very sorry that this happened to you. If someone were to try this one on me I would tell them to get the verification done and then send me the XX,XXX - 1/2 of the verification fee. Thank you very much for the heads up and I hope that everything works out!

Please PM me the name of the company for future reference.

 

[SpongyBob]

PM me the company name, can you. Thanks

 

[snoop]

He split the cost of the owner verification, so i am wondering if he owns the company and was just scamming me...

yes, I'd say you've been scammed

 

[equity78]

This was on DNF a little while back it is the follow up to the appraisal scam , the verification scam

 

[Robson]

Ouch, that sounds horrible!

 

[tallymart]

Wow, that hurts, Can you PM me the name as well please.

 

[JMJ]

allfordomains.com's new scam .

 

[cjcjcj]

I posted about a similar scam last week:

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=135633

 

[sm]

I got involved in something similar..... the guy wanted to buy one of my domains. He kept emailing me to get it appraised by a particular company (his reasoning was that a domain is like real estate, and as such must be appraised by a third party... he used the phrase "Certified Appraisal"). He even mentioned that I shouldnt get it appraised by Sedo because my domain was parked on sedo, and as such they would appraise it on the higher side so that they could get higher commissions :yell:

In the end, after many failed attempts, he just dissappeared... probably found out that i'm kind of a tough nut :lol:

 

[tetrapak]

Something similar as well:

Hello,

I'm interested in your domain name listed for sale.

Can you drop me your desired price?

If I can afford it I'll reply.

By the way, did you receive offers from other buyers?

I run a software development company. Selling & buying names is not my main business. Just another way to invest money and
make additional income.

Please keep our correspondence confidential.

Best regards,

Andrew Ratcliffe , Ph. D.
President
RSS Engineering

the email they use: [email protected]

 

[sm]

oh heck !!!!!!!!! he's the same guy !!! sheesh. wait a minute, I'll copy and paste my version:

Hello,

I'm interested in your domain name listed for sale.

Can you drop me your desired price?

If I can afford it I'll reply.

By the way, did you receive offers from other buyers?

I run a software development company. Selling & buying names is not my main business. Just another way to invest money and make additional income.

Please keep our correspondence confidential.

Best regards,

Chris Calagna, Ph.D.
Vice President
RTS Engineering

The email used in my case was: [email protected]

:lol:

 

[tetrapak]

Hehe, yes definitely. Beware of @phreaker.net emails!

 

[OvenMitt]

Beware of anyone who uses "PhD" in their sig.
Don't we have enough people that have been scammed by this to take some action?
I have not been duped into this yet, but I think we could get enough folks that have been hurt by it together, find out who really is behind it, and... well... you know the rest.

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

This guy wasted 2 weeks of my time?

One of the worst things anyone can do to me is waste my time. It boils my blood like nothing else.

He paid for half the verification fee, so this deception is not easy to detect. But thanks for posting. Good to know.

AmCy

 

[wow!]

Do you realy think that someone whos going to pay $10k for LLN .com was so excited...?!
Dont be naive with easy payers...