I happened to receive an email yesterday for one of my clients, sent to my webmaster email that is on all his domain names to help him. It looked like this....
Hi,
My name is Brandon Birdwell and I would be interested in buying your domain ____.COM from you. Are you interested in selling it? If yes, how much would you want for it? What payment method would you prefer?
And just in case you are wondering how I got your email, anyone can get that info at whois.net
Regards,
Brandon Birdwell
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I didn't think anything about it because this client owns about 100 domain names, so I forwarded it on to him. Oddly, the original email address didn't attach, so this morning my client asked me what his email was. I had deleted the email, and feeling badly, I Googled that odd name. I found a dentist and a Yale student, which didn't seem right. I kept going down the results and then found a blog called Blog To Great, which described the same email and advised that it was a scam. This is what they had to say about it...
Funny thing is, the domain he inquired about from me is "parked" at Sedo, who provides full info on my domain's web page on how to contact them to buy. It seems this person is looking for people wanting to sell via Paypal and would likely reverse payment after they have the domain name.
I know that many of us in the real estate industry tend to get caught up in the domain-buying addiction. I certainly have . So we need to all be careful from now on with inquiries that sound too exciting and come from nowhere. Looks like we are their latest target. I feel sorry for these two people with the name of Brandon Birdwell! ####
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