alert [RESOLVED] - Scammed by hacker $3,000 btc pornography.com affiliate.org etc

[Investful]

The sale thread is in another forum.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1722533.msg%msg_id%
and these domain were also listed on hackforum and flippa.

I bought 2 domain from him, paid ~3k in bitcoin.

It went smoothly initially, he actually went first(I thought nothing could go wrong) transferred the domain into my account, and gave me a week to pay it off. A week later, I paid in full.

But few days later, I get a message from the domain company "namecheap/enom" telling me those 2 domain has been "Locked due to pending Transfer Dispute".

send payment to address:
1J8moCzzRg6rdoGv1aqoPJCqrkXhocwNtT
1NmBxpMrY1wqKsWD8HK6n9ZQF6WP5povFK
17An4YMbWeXhkg7nnPumdrgHSgVeut1jbY

Here's are the list of stolen or his domains(how does owner of $100k+ domain not have strong account security).
pornography.com
lurking.com
schoolteacher.com
automating.com
disturb.com
overpopulation.com
affiliate.org
affiliatemarketing.net
TMZA.com

many of these domains were listed in flippa.com a week back.

 

[RBCDNs]

escrow.com, Sedo, eCop

Thanks, I appreciate the info!

 

[RBCDNs]

NP member @Brandon Abbey is now at Payoneer.com
Check them out.

Peace,
Cyberian

Thanks, I appreciate the info!

 

[Investful]

Updates:

eNom/NameCheap closed the transfer-dispute and allowed me to keep the domains.

Domain is no longer registry locked.

 

[Recons.Com]

Updates:

eNom/NameCheap closed the transfer-dispute and allowed me to keep the domains.

Domain is no longer registry locked.

wow, so you did manage to get 2 names for $3K? )

Which of the list were they?

 

[usernamex]

wow, so you did manage to get 2 names for $3K? )
Which of the list were they?

t m z a and automating, is my deduction

 

[Investful]

Yes those were the domains I purchased.

 

[usernamex]

So they were not stolen? The seller actually owned them? But tried to steal them back anyway? That's where I got lost in the thread, the bitcoin discussion makes it scattered to follow.

That is like winning the lottery, a great prize for all the hassle and anguish you must have gone through!

 

[Investful]

eNom/namecheap risk department did an "investigation", and put those domain under registry transfer lock.

After the investigation, they just emailed and said sorry for wait and unlock the domains. They did not provide any details to me.

 

[UmerK]

eNom/namecheap risk department did an "investigation", and put those domain under registry transfer lock.

After the investigation, they just emailed and said sorry for wait and unlock the domains. They did not provide any details to me.

Luck favors the brave Although no one including yourself would suggest doing such a thing with that many red flags, congrats and best of luck! You've got yourself nice enough names now to forget about the headache you had over last few months, cheers!

 

[SuperDudePro]

Could someone do a review/summary of what we think happened here and how? I'm kind of lost, but I'd like to understand.

 

[wayne wooldridge]

From what i understand, buyer purchased 2 domains (tmza dot com and automating .org) from external forum, using bitcoin, both for 3k purchase price.

The seller transferred the domains upfront; but when payment was made to seller, the seller made claim to registrar that the domains were stolen to get them back and make off with domains plus cash.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[SuperDudePro]

From what i understand, buyer purchased 2 domains (tmza dot com and automating .org) from external forum, using bitcoin, both for 3k purchase price.

The seller transferred the domains upfront; but when payment was made to seller, the seller made claim to registrar that the domains were stolen to get them back and make off with domains plus cash.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

So it was the seller who tried to steal it back? Not the rightful owner? And we're assuming that it was an email hack/id hack?