Comments on: The Incredible Mutating Domain Appraisal Scam

By: Super Bowl Hotels

Super Bowl Hotels — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:51:23 +0000

I’m mounting a counter attack against this scammer since its the second time he tried me. Seems like every time I update Sedo, he shows up. I have a way to fight him back but it’s not for everybody.

I had a fight with Google over my adwords ads and was arguing with them for a few hours sending emails back and forth. Well the same day within hours they cancelled my adsense account for suspicious activity. Said I was sending invalid clicks. Strange that it happened the same time I was having a heated argument over running my ads in adwords and I never clicked one ad. Anyway to make a long story short I no longer have an Adsense account.

What does it have to do with this scammer you ask?

The page he sends you to is a fake static html forum page with authentic links to the real forum to make it look legit. Just that one page is fake with hyphenated urls instead of the real url. It’s running his Adsense ads on it.

I just clicked his adsense ads about 200 times. If you have a suspended adsense account then you can do the same. They take that very seriously and will suspend his account too.

I don’t suggest you do that if you have a good adense account since they track IPs and may disable you too.

But since I no longer have anything to worry about……
I’m going back to click more. Don’t worry about running up his cash, google only counts a few clicks from an IP before they stop counting them as valid clicks. But they keep counting the invalid ones looking for frauduant activivity. I don’t know how many sites he has but I think hurting his adsense account will hurt his pockets a lot.

Just a suggestion.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:41:43 +0000

I recently received a domain appraisal scam attempt from buy-domain-hosting.com, This contact started off with stating his name is Michael but, after doing a little bit of research I was able to uncover this company’s true meaning to scam domain owners into getting an appraisal but not continuing to make any legit offers for my domains.

DO NOT TRUST BUY-DOMAIN-HOSTING.COM THEY ARE DOMAIN APPRAISAL SCAMMERS!

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:33:26 +0000

Is it possible to contact the register/hosting company to shut down the forum? or in any other way make it more difficult for scammers to do this?

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:39:33 +0000

… got the same type of email today from some “Vasquez” from a “Bridge Technology” company whom can’t even bother to set their own domain name up… Using hotmail for serious business, not since pre-’95, thank you very much! =P
Just stay away from these morons…

HTH

By: keith

keith — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:13:12 +0000

posts #11, 12, 13 are all sample scam emails recieved today from

Anthony Bradley [realinvestllc@hotmail.com]

By: keith

keith — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:11:32 +0000

It’s a standard practice to show independent valuation to buyers/resellers.
Nobody will do business without it. I’m a businessman and have no intention
of changing rules which help both parties to avoid additional risks.

Of course, investors never take into account auto-generated valuations. So
manual valuation is a “must” too.

I read the following information about appraisals at:
http://webdiscuss.007sites.com/Archive-07-2009/8152719.htm

Thank you for understanding. I’m looking forward to do business with you.

By: keith

keith — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:11:07 +0000

Do you sell domain with a web site or just the name?

Domain without content is ok with me. Web site is not necessary.

Have you had your domain names evaluated in the past? I mean domain appraisals. Without valuation we cannot be sure in the sale price. It’s very important for me in terms of reselling too. But we must engage a valuation company with REAL manual service. So I will only accept valuations from independent sources I and my partners trust.

To avoid mistakes I asked domain experts about reputable appraisal companies.

Please check this blog with suggestions from other sellers and buyers:
http://webdiscuss.007sites.com/Archive-07-2009/8152719.htm

If, for example, the valuation comes higher you can adjust your asking price accordingly. It will be fair. I also hope you can give me 12% – 15% discount.

After you send me the valuation via email (usually it takes 1-2 days to obtain it) we’ll continue our negotiations.

What is your preferred payment method: Escrow.com, International wire transfer, PayPal.com or something else?

Hope we can come to an agreement fast.

Looking forward to your reply.