Comments on: Domain Name Addiction and How It Lead Me to a Domain Appraisal Scam http://www.computerdefense.org/2007/10/domain-name-addiction-and-how-it-lead-me-to-a-domain-appraisal-scam/ Sharing my thoughts with the world. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:58:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christine http://www.computerdefense.org/2007/10/domain-name-addiction-and-how-it-lead-me-to-a-domain-appraisal-scam/comment-page-1/#comment-31557 Christine Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:00:47 +0000 http://www.computerdefense.org/?p=399#comment-31557 Yes.... I too am a domain name addict. And I also have received unsolicited e-mails from various people seeking to buy some of my domains. IN some cases they were legit and the originator had some connection with the domain name ( a movie studio liked one of my domain names and a film production company liked another ). BUT I have also received these 'out of the blue' solicitations to buy a domain name. And like yourself I always check out who I am talking to before I ever reply. I would say that barring the two legit approaches that I received, all the rest were scams - either trying to force me to pay for a valuation of the domains through some scummy company which is no doubt associated to the e-mail sender... OR it was a prepatory setup to the old Nigerian money scam of overpaying, looking for a refund of the overpayment after - OR they simply wanted to coax me into transferring over the domain name with a payment that would later bounce AND leave the domain in their possession ( which is almost impossible to get back once you put it into their control. Sigh... and if it is an offer from Dr Obotutu, representing some Nigerian Web Investment company... well, just say no and ignore them ;) . Yes…. I too am a domain name addict. And I also have received unsolicited e-mails from various people seeking to buy some of my domains. IN some cases they were legit and the originator had some connection with the domain name ( a movie studio liked one of my domain names and a film production company liked another ). BUT I have also received these ‘out of the blue’ solicitations to buy a domain name. And like yourself I always check out who I am talking to before I ever reply.

I would say that barring the two legit approaches that I received, all the rest were scams – either trying to force me to pay for a valuation of the domains through some scummy company which is no doubt associated to the e-mail sender… OR it was a prepatory setup to the old Nigerian money scam of overpaying, looking for a refund of the overpayment after – OR they simply wanted to coax me into transferring over the domain name with a payment that would later bounce AND leave the domain in their possession ( which is almost impossible to get back once you put it into their control.

Sigh… and if it is an offer from Dr Obotutu, representing some Nigerian Web Investment company… well, just say no and ignore them ;)

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