Scam Or Not?

[Billy Wagner]

So, I received this email earlier today:

"Hello!

I'm a broker of an investor from France who wants to buy your condosecuritysystems.com.

My client has $431 000 budget for 40-50 domains. Please specify your asking price in the subject of your message.

Our company is in hosting business. We also provide brokerage services for investors.

I'm working with many investors from USA, Canada, China, UAE etc. If you have other domains for sale please email them to me. I will offer them to my clients.

Please let me know the best way to pay you: IBAN/Wire transfer, Check, Western Union or Paypal. If it's your first time sale I can help you with the transfer process.

Best regards,

Isaac Franke

Vice President

Virtual Space Hosting

Switzerland
Basel
Centralbahnstrasse 19
Phone: 061 206 09 72"

Can you guys help me determine if it's just a scammer? I don't know if I'm just being too overly cautious or not.

My concerns are:

1. Why would he say how much his client has to spend?
2. Why mention how to pay me, when he doesn't even know the asking price?
3. He's from outside the U.S.
4. He asked for a list of other domains I own.


What do you guys think?

 

[New2Domaining]

That's a very common scam email. Just press delete and blacklist the sender.

 

[Billy Wagner]

"My client offers $15,000.

Before we proceed my investor needs only one thing from you:

As you may know all major domain brokers does not allow listing above $1000 or higher if you don't have an official appraisal. Since the sale price is not low in our case, my client needs an official certificate of price (appraisal). He also needs to know you have no trademark problems. It won't be a problem since I know an official appraiser that offers this option (trademark infringement verification) for free as a part of the appraisal service.

I'm also interested in a good valuation and a high sale price because my client pays me a commission (10-15% of the sale price) on every domain purchase. So I'm not interested in low sales too.

Of course, you should not use a free automated service like Estibot or similar services. My client won't accept them. I was working for Estibot and knew they were using automated scripts for free appraisals. In our case we need a real manual valuation. The appraisal will also increase the value of your domain.

To avoid mistakes and wasting money on useless automated services I asked in the forum about reliable manual valuation/TM verification services. Please read this: http://www.archive-google.com/threads/threadview849713605.htm

The process is very easy:

1. Go to the appraisal site and order the valuation with the TM verification. Submit your domains to them and let them know you have a buyer with $X,XXX offer so you need the appraisal near this value. After several hours you will get the results.

2. Then send these results via email and we'll proceed with the deal.

If you are new to the appraisal process I can help you with a step by step instructions."


Scam. Sorry to waste space on the forum. lol

 

[Nappy Bunch]

Scam

 

[Ms Domainer]

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100% scam.

Sometimes, when I'm in an evil mood and have the time, I'll string these numpties along.

8-X

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[alien51]

These scam templates should be made stickies. Almost every few days, someone will inquire about this same email asking whether it is a scam or genuine.

 

[bhawk91.com]

You ended your question with 4 concerns... so know you know this is a scam.

 

[4better]

Guaranteed 100% scam. No doubt about it. That type of message has been going on for years now targeting domain newbies. Stay away!!

 

[dnk]

Have received a similar email, there was no reply later.

 

[Rado_Ch]

These scam templates should be made stickies. Almost every few days, someone will inquire about this same email asking whether it is a scam or genuine.

That's a very good idea actually, maybe even a separate sticky thread where only the email templates are shown. I am not into the business of buying/selling/flipping domains and even I have seen this email around 10 times since I regged in the forum

Its good that scammers don't bother changing their tactics much and they are pretty easy to spot

 

[B&J]

Scam. Have seen it many times. Bin and report them.

 

[Simdes]

New "Name Broker":
Jun Fujimoto
CPI Hosting LLC.
Tokyo, Japan