advice Scam or no scam?

[Want2learn]

I received this email today . . .I inserted the Xs and the XY

Hello!
I represent a buyer from XXXXXXX who wants to buy XXXXXXXX.com for a new web project.
Are you still interested in selling?
The buyer is a professional investor with a good budget.
I located your contact information via whois search.
I help VIP clients of our hosting company to buy names.
If you have more names please email me the list.
Best Regards,
XY
Personal Broker
XXXXXXX
Hosting Company
Tokyo, Japan

 

[tomcarl]

Offer the domain to him for $50 bucks, see if he asks you to buy an appraisal.

Received the same email 6 years ago.

 

[nomen]

Always wondered what is the success rate of this scams... Apparently high enough for them to keep on trying.

 

[Pierre Barnard]

scam

 

[Ategy]

Yeah .. scam .. but at least he's not claiming to be a student! lol

The real key is no phone or email at the bottom ... in fact you can usually tell right away based on the sender's email address ... pretty much 100% of offers from emails with numbers or hyphens in them are scams!

 

[frank-germany]

you always want to answer
And treat them as a customer

as long as its obvious that they are scam

I once treated a guy like a gangster
and in the end I pissed off a bulk buyer
I still own that domain he wanted to give me 750 for ..

 

[DNGear]

how many people would fall for this everyday?
As a NP member we knew about this scam. What about new domainers?

 

[DeliDomains]

No one tells you they have a good budget to buy domains. SCAM move on.

 

[Want2learn]

ok, with this post, another post or two after this one by you as well, and with my dyslexic mind I am not sure what you have found out and I am curious. Scam or no scam? Were they really interested in the initial domain or not?

Sorry, it was a scam! PresidentFailures.com according to the email was worth 15-20k . . . which is laughable, obviously

 

[shorterwinters]

Sorry, it was a scam! PresidentFailures.com according to the email was worth 15-20k . . . which is laughable, obviously

Bummer.
Uhmmmm, yeah. That kind of money on that from out of left field would kind of make me really wonder as well although I think you could make something out of that and get some traffic especially in these times. From there? No clue, I am a beginner as well but my first thought of that name is if you got something off and running with whatever ideas you had that inspired you to reg/buy that name and then promoted it for sale you could make a few bucks for sure.
(nope, I not interested in making something from that tho I can see it being done)

 

[420domainer]

You're officially a domainer!

 

[Want2learn]

HeHeHe..... Actually... maybe not.

All depends on how much Trump @#$% up!

Hold on to it and you may actually find a buyer that hates Trump enough to fork money over for the domain.

Seriously.... I'm not kidding.

I have updated my BIN on presidentfailures.com and iimpeachtrump.com

Lol the other day I reached out to members of the US Senate via Twitter. LOL, they are the only ones who can truly say "I impeach Trump"

I am in the air flying to Vegas right now. Who knew the inter webs went that high I keed I keed. But I was happy to see Hillary is on the attack now! Come on make me money . . .

 

[Duncan729]

Been there. Done that. Woops

 

[Marc Riccio]

Newbie question.....

What is the scam? I don't understand what would happen. Do they stealyour name? How?

I thought domaining would be a little difficult learning, but the more I learn, the tougher it get. Great mind exercize.

M

 

[Duncan729]

Newbie question.....

What is the scam? I don't understand what would happen. Do they stealyour name? How?

I thought domaining would be a little difficult learning, but the more I learn, the tougher it get. Great mind exercize.

M

They make you an offer and then say the buyer will only accept if you get a manual appraisal from a site of their choice. The appraisal site is linked to them and is not legitimate and usually costs around £200. Then the buyer dissapears.

They also often provide a link to a google question site to try legitmise the site, this is not real either.

 

[Marc Riccio]

They make you an offer and then say the buyer will only accept if you get a manual appraisal from a site of their choice. The appraisal site is linked to them and is not legitimate and usually costs around £200. Then the buyer dissapears.

They also often provide a link to a google question site to try legitmise the site, this is not real either.

Seem to me that selling a domain should work like selling real estate. I put up my house for sale. You want it, you get your own appraisal and then make an offer. My choice to accept or reject..
i would respond to that in this manner.... Ok, you get the appraisal and deduct the $200 from your bid.