New Domain Name Scam – 85% of Appraisal & No Affiliate Links
March 18, 4 CommentsLike most domainers I get my fair share of spam, scammers, discount offers from registrars and the like. Here is a scam that I received last night.
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From: j.jo...@rocketmail.com
Subject: Regarding your domain YOUR-DOMAIN.COM
Hello,
I came across your domain name YOUR-DOMAIN.COM and I would be interested in buying it from you.
Here is my offer, you have to send me a professional appraisal from one of the following companies. and I will pay you 85% of the appraised price.
For payments under $2000 I prefer to use paypal. And for larger amounts of money I prefer if we used escrow.com
I accept appraisals from any of these companies:
-sedo.com
-pedma.com
-accuratedomains.com
If you already have an appraisal from one of those companies please forward it to me, and we will do business.
Regards,
James Johnson
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Pedma is a parking page, Sedo is self explanatory and Accurate Domains.. are they? I have no idea.
For me, the interesting question is…. Why would someone refer people to an appraisal website with NO affiliate link? The html version of the email doesn’t have an affiliate link. As such, the only people to benefit from this appear to be Sedo and/or AccurateDomains. That is assuming that the person(s) behind this scam are not going to take your domain away using some other means.
What do you think? Have you received a scam lately? Post and let us know.
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They only offered me 60% of the appraised value…
I think this website has a good explanation of what is going on. They got the same email as well and has done some good research on what is going on.
http://www.dynamoo.com/blog/2009/03/pedmacom-domain-appraisals.html
Maybe its because when you look at these 3 sites, the scam site, i. e. in this case pedma.com (dunno why it isnt developed) offers the lowest appraisal rates. Maybe, if you havent already got an appraisal, you will most probably pick the one which is cheapest, as you want to have a sale. This way, they take chances at getting an appraisal done? What say?
I got this same email 3 days ago asking to purchase my domain AffiliateHall.com.. Glad I didn’t waist my time getting the doman appraised. I got offered 65% of the appraised value also.