securenamesale.com Scam

[coes]

If you receive an unsolicited email from a prospective buyer who specifically requests that you have your domain name appraised by securenamesale.com (or refers you to http://domaintalk.ourplace.com/Archive/95073.htm - not worth a clicky) please be advised that this is a scam.

The sender of these emails is using masked IPs and domains to refer you directly to his site to squeeze $70-200 out of you. He has no intention of actually acquiring your domain name(s) or making any purchase at all.

For further information, please see http://domainappraisalscam.com/ (that's not a plug as it's not my site, but it I feel obligated to post information regarding this scam since I fell for it and don't care to see anyone else make the same mistake).

I wasn't sure what forum to post this in, so please move this thread if it is inappropriate to this forum.

 

[swimjenni]

Thanks for reporting the scam. This should be moved to Warnings & Alerts area.

 

[netzilla]

Yeah thanks for the heads up

 

[dotnom]

Wherever there is a market group there are always scams that will try to exploit the innocent and good will users

Generally speaking (also discussed many time before in this forum) if the buyer wants to get a domain he will pay for appraisal himself to be sure he will know the level of the price he will deal with the seller

 

[coes]

I certainly agree, but as a newbie to domaining I was not ready for this multi-tier scheme and just wanted to give a heads up.