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I have heard about these domain appraisal scams for several years, but this is the first time I have received one. The way the scam works is you get excited because you think someone wants to buy your domain. You go and get an expensive appraisal from SEDO or a cheap appraisal from one of the scammer's sites, then the scammer changes their mind and doesn't buy your domain.

There are several red flags in this email which I won't point out to tip off the scammers, but if you read through it and look how it was sent you should be able to pick up on them. My advice is to ALWAYS do some searches in Google using the information in the emails you get to see if they same thing has been sent to others, and VERIFY who you are communicating with. NEVER trust anyone on the Internet unless you can afford to be taken advantage of.

-----Original Message-----
From: Domain Trade LLC [mailto:domain.trd@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 11:20 PM
To: webmaster
Subject: MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM.INFO

Dear sir,
dear madam,

we have an interest to purchase your domain MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM.INFO and offer between 50% and 65% of the appraised value.
We accept appraisals from companies such as

http://www.sedo.com/
http://top-name.net/
http://max-apprais.com/


If you already have an appraisal please forward it to us.

Please let us know whether you are interested. Upon review of your valuation and in case of an agreement we send payments via PayPal for amounts less than $2,000 and via Escrow.com for amounts above $2,000, as well as further instructions on how to complete the transfer of the domain name.

We appreciate your business,

Domain Trade LLC

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We just started getting emails like this one. If you get one, it is a scam hosted on a Russian web site. Please report it to your domain registrar and any other places you report spam and Phishing Scams.

Others are starting to report on this domain name scam.

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Your domain name YOURDOMAINNAME will expire 2009-09-04.

You can renew your domain automatically with ISP Renewal. Click on the link below in order to extend your domain for an additional year. You will receive a confirmation when your domain is extended.

Click here to renew your domain now.
--------> DOMAIN RENEWAL

You will receive a confirmation when the payment has been recorded and your domain has been renewed.

ispRenewal.com
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