I know that I have been away from this site for some time now. It’s not that I don’t have anything particularly good to write about, I just become lazy to actually write it, lol. However, here is a story that I want to share with you guys. About a month ago, I received the most interesting email.
Hello,
I have been looking over your domain and I wanted to acquire your domain (www.nuwen.com). We are going to use this domain, because we are going to open up a retail store in Austin, TX selling Computer Accessories. I will like to make a offer of $50K (fifty-thousand-dollars). Please contact me back ASAP.
~Jose A. Vasquez
Do you smell something? Because, it smells like a scam letter to me. So, I look around online to see whether other blogs have posted something like this before. Sure enough, there is a scam that’s going around involving selling and buying domain names.
How this scam works is that the scammer hook an unsuspecting domain owner by dangling a ridiculous amount of money to buy his domain name. Once the bait is taken, the scammer requests an appraisal certificate for the name. The catch is that the name must be appraised by the scammer’s list of recommended sites. Little does the victim know, the scammer owns all of those sites. So the victim spend hundreds of dollars to get his domain name appraised only to find out that the scammer is no longer interested in buying the name.
I decide to dig a little bit further and let him know that I mean business, and that he is messing with the wrong girl. In response, I reply.
Good Evening,
I am not 100% sure about selling (www.nuwen.com). However, if you are serious about your pursuit, then I am willing to place (www.nuwen.com) on Sedo for you to purchase at $50,000 US.
Regards,
The next day, I receive his reply.
Nevermind about the domain, we will use a other domain name (www.nuwencomps.com).
Amazingly, one month has passed and “nuwencomps.com” is still available. When you push a scammer into the right course of action, they will suddenly draw back. So the moral of the story is not to believe in any get-rich-quick scheme. In our pursuit of invisible money, we may be the one who end up on the dinner plate.
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$50K?
Yeah, as soon as I saw that… I knew it was a scam.
Good thing you looked around.
By the way, are you able to remove those snapshots? They’re kind of disruptive
Is it? I mean, what kind of “small” company in Texas would buy a used domain name for that price? I have some relatives in Texas, and if he wants, he can talk to them directly, lol.
I know, unfortunately, I have not yet find a way to get rid of those snapshots.
Yes, I finally manage to find it. Snapshots are removed.
Snapshots? Don’t really know what your commenter meant seeing as it’s gone slash fixed. :p
Anyway, yeah that’s so not believable but good job with your email reply. Lmao!
interesting story.
it’s ridiculous at first sight. 50K? lol….
lol. haha. wow…at first i thought…that’s so much money. then backtracked. “wait”…i bet you got a lot of laughs later on =D.
i feel a bit sorry for the ones who got scammed though. =/
Nice move Rikkye, that should do something to them about scamming people.
That’s a really nice comeback to the scam!
*applauds* Way to go, Rikkye.