Official Response to Scam Warning

[brainstorm]

OFFICIAL RESPONSE FROM FASTDOMAINSALES

Several our visitors informed us about this scam.

First of all, we want to thank the Norwegian provider for closing his email accounts. Hope it will help to stop this guy.

We did not authorize this person (email address [email protected]) to use our company name in his promotional emails. I think other companies did not authorize him too. He is not our affiliate.

At this moment our security department and lawyers are trying to find his real address and start a lwasuit against this person sending fake emails that ruins our reputation.

Please read the following information. It will help you to avoid mistakes

Their motive... It's looking like they work for the competitor to ruin the reputation of FastDomainSales.com, HollywoodDomains and others sites mentioned in his letter. Perhaps he is hired by one of our competitors. Someone last year tried to get a forum thread started about this, at HollywoodDomains.com ,but it never took off , so apparently they are not involved ,but a victim as well .

How to avoid being a victim : If a potential buyer asks you to provide an independant appraisal especially one like the above..Suggest to them to purchase the appraisal themselves and if they buy ,you will deduct the cost
of the appraisal from the sale price .

It's very easy to stop this guy.

NEVER ORDER APPRAISALS AFTER RECEIVING SUCH REQUESTS. ASK YOUR BUYER TO ORDER THIS SERVICE HIMSELF/HERSELF.

Sincerely,

Andrew Gordon

FastDomainSales Team

 

[armstrong]

You can't disassociate yourself from these scammers so easily. This has been going on for too long, and you are the direct benefactor of this scam, since as you say these spammers were not your affiliates. We challenge you to do two things:

- post a public warning on your website's homepage about this scam; your exact words will do nicely:

NEVER ORDER APPRAISALS AFTER RECEIVING SUCH REQUESTS. ASK YOUR BUYER TO ORDER THIS SERVICE HIMSELF/HERSELF

- offer refunds to our members who were taken by this scam

Can you do these, or will you continue profitting from this domain appraisal scam?

 

[suthra]

I agree with armstrong. several sites puts a disclaimer including yahoo in their main page, like, do not believe in emails that arrive from their domain as [email protected] etc. Likewise you can put a disclaimer on your main page.

 

[activeco]

A nice try.

 

[pelican]

This guy definitely trying to disassociate from the scam. I TOTALLY DONT BELIEVE this guy is not part of the scam.

Unless he refunds those appraisal fee that members fell in unwillingly, else FastDomainSales is always part of the SCAM.

 

[Bill1]

HE is definately a SCAM!!! his lawyers are filing a lawsuit? my ass!!!
i dont believe that bullshit!!

 

[RJ]

Is it even possible to file a lawsuit against yourself?

http://www.whois.sc/fastdomainsales.com
http://www.whois.sc/allfordomains.com

 

[csmaster2005]

also, is it even possible to figure out a real home address from a free public email address?

 

[activeco]

Originally posted by -RJ-
Is it even possible to file a lawsuit against yourself?

http://www.whois.sc/fastdomainsales.com
http://www.whois.sc/allfordomains.com

Don't forget

Everydayincome.com
Softforces.com
Notvirtualcard(s).com

and probably more from the same guys.

 

[pelican]

now he runs away with his attempt to clean his reputation.

 

[Bakki]

FastDomainSales scam continues...

This time, his name is Marc Miller. :D

Here are the two mails I've received from him today, headers included. If you look closely, you'll see that the poor bastard uses a dialup in Russia.

[...]
Received: from toughguy.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103])
by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 77AB8611BBC
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:25:48 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mmiller (ppp101-11.dialup.mtu-net.ru [212.188.101.11])
by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 876B81A0203
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:03:37 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Marc Miller" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: XXXXXXXXXX (sent 06/16/04)
X-Mailer: NetMasters SMTP Demo
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:03:37 +0000 (UTC)
X-HotPOP: -----------------------------------------------
Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email
Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com
-----------------------------------------------


Hi there,

Have found your name listed for sale.

Is this domain still available for sale? Have you received any bids from other buyers?

If it's still available for sale please email me your asking price.

If you have other good domains for sale feel free to email me the full list with asking prices.

If I can afford your domain I will contact you. Please don't send me multiple emails if you don't receive a reply from me and keep my email address confidential.
Just email me your asking price. If I decide to buy I will contact you as soon as possible.

I run a software development company. We provide custom software development in Linux, Windows XP, MS Access, MS SQL, PHP and Delphi for our clients in USA, Hong Kong, UK and Switzerland. Selling & buying names is not my main business. Just another way to
invest free money and make some income.

Kindest regards,

Marc Miller

CEO

MCSE, MCSD

[...]
Received: from toughguy.net (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103])
by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id CDEA95ECA48
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:57:11 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from 040e125e5a894b5 (unknown [213.140.225.205])
by smtp-3.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id CC47FF97A2B
for <[email protected]>; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:06:05 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <03d101c453f2$bf427090$cde18cd5@040e125e5a894b5>
From: "M Miller" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: XXXXXX (sent 06/16/04)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:39:10 +0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1193
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1193
X-HotPOP: -----------------------------------------------
Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email
Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com
-----------------------------------------------

Is it a developed site or just a domain name? We are mostly interested in
domains without web content.

If you have no site (domain name only) I need an appraisal before making an
offer.

Our partners (webmasters and domain owners) always recommend us to verify an
independent appraisal first. It would be fair for both of us.

Do you have an appraisal certificate for your name? Please note that I don't
trust free or unprofessional appraisals. It can be an appraisal certificate
from www.FastDomainSales.com or www.GreatDomains.com or
www.HollywoodDomains.com. It does not matter because they were recommended
to me by experienced experts.

After I receive your appraisal we'll continue negotiations.

How do you prefer to get paid: PayPal, check or wire?

Looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,

Marc Miller

CEO

MCSD, MSCE

 

[Anthony]

The NP Investigators are at it again! Tracking down the scammers. [Cue theme music...]

 

[Blackpanther]

Originally posted by csmaster2005
also, is it even possible to figure out a real home address from a free public email address?

Yes you would be amazed at the type of information you may be able to find on a person with just thier email address...

 

[johnny6]

how come their "official" response has so many typos and misspelled words? reminds me a lot of the appraisal scammer - he can't spell worth a crap either.

 

[vwblubug]

<-----Idiot that fell for this scam & actually purchased 2 appraisals
from these people.


This guy is lying- he would have defended himself by now!

:bah:

 

[Flash81]

He's back

Just to let everyone know, this guy is still active. I received the exact same e-mail this past weekend.

For a moment, I thought I might have had an actual prospect. Oh, well...

Thanks to NamePros for bringing this one to light.


Mike

 

[Adi]

i received an email to but i entered his name and the title in google and found many "scamming" things about him

adi

 

[Badger]

oops posted in wrong place

 

[arktow]

Same scammer.
NS3.FASTDOMAINSALES.COM
NS5.ALLFORDOMAINS.COM
NS.SOFTFORCES.COM

 

[.X.]

Why does he act so humble in his e-mails **SCAM**

 

[Dave_Z]

He's still at it, huh? Unless s/he's arrested, I guess this scam won't die.

 

[suthra]

But on what grounds will he be arrested??. This f*c*er sends mail as if he is willing to buy the domain after an appraisal?.

Maybe he can be charged for spam

 

[webmark]

If he is in russia you can bet that nothing will be done about it anyway, has anyone else been tracking the allofmp3.com saga??

 

[Kodeking]

How about you reply to them saying that you know about the scam and would just like to transfer the money directly to his bank account instead of wasting time "laundering" the money. Then, when he sends the bank details, take all of his money. Easy as pie. It will teach him a lesson.

I do not actually condone stealing, but it would be funny.

 

[redhippo]

hmmm..this is an old thread but it seems these guys are getting "smarter"