Comments on: Another Domain Appraisal Scam ~ Kevin Hill

By: Vagabond

Vagabond — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:59:12 +0000

Thanks you all for the new names. I’ve been tracking this particular scam since I received my own letter; check the link for my growing list. (There’s also a link at the top of that page to a post regarding the scam itself, but it’s not a whole lot that hasn’t already been said *nods*)

By: leanback

leanback — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:36:00 +0000

Thanks for your site, great therapy and lessons learned..lol

By: NZ

NZ — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:07:14 +0000

Similar scam with macez.com, googled them up and landed on your post, thanks! Their email went as follows:

We are interested to buy your domain name fartingreindeer.com and offer to buy it from you for 70% of the appraised market value.

As of now we accept appraisals from either one of the following leading appraisal companies:

macez.com
sedo.com

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

As soon as we have received your appraisal we will send you our payment (we use paypal for amounts less than $2,000 and 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,

Yours truly,

Mark Allen
markallen38@gmail.com

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By: Sell Domain names

Sell Domain names — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:55:59 +0000

I received the same email as Sal did a few days ago. It’s good you are posting this info. Hopefully people enter text from the email into the SE and find out about the scam before they lose money.

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By: SAL

SAL — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:42:52 +0000

JUST GOT A NEW ONE:

from Domain Resale

offer 65% of the appraised market value.
As of now we accept appraisals from either one of the following leading appraisal companies:

sedo.com
pddomains.com
accuratedomains.com

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

As soon as we have received your appraisal we will send you our payment (we use Paypal for amounts less than $2,000 and escrow.com for amounts above $2,000) as well as further instructions on how to complete the transfer of the domain name.
BEWARE….

By: David

David — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:40:44 +0000

Thanks Jaime, just got one today from Ben “Phillips.” Exactly like the example you posted but with 3 domain appraisal companies. The 1st and third were dead links and only the middle one worked. Most likely their site?
Great post!

By: SAL

SAL — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:38:55 +0000

well i got my money refunded, fast.
email from paypal;
express has agreed to grant a $22.99 USD refund to settle this dispute. It
may take up to 5 business days for the refund amount to appear in your
account. This dispute will be closed then.

———————————–
Transaction Details
———————————–

Seller’s Name: express
Seller’s Email: davidcoleman530@gmail.com

My account was credited immediately .
SO ANYONE ELSE TAKEN FOR A RIDE, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DISPUTE IT.
fleos.com also posts a guarantee on main page if domain is not sold for appraised price within 6 months, they will buy it. lol.

By: Jamie Zoch

Jamie Zoch — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:28:31 +0000

@Sal,
Sorry to hear this but consider it a lesson learned. Always Google the email address and see what you come up with. I would give doing a charge back via Paypal as I am sure this “Kevin Hill” has had A Lot of charge backs done to him and PP may take your side.

By: SAL

SAL — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:09:35 +0000

well i filed a dispute at paypal. the name that the funds were paid to is (express) at customers9@gmail.com .i also included a link to this blog. we’ll see what happens.

By: SAL

SAL — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:51:22 +0000

wow, i feel like a dumbass. i got an email on the 29th also. and got an appraisal from fleos.com today, which seemed higher than i expected. on the 29th i also did a quickie appraisal at godaddy because i had 7 credits for appraisals there. fleos was 4-5 higher. well i forwarded the appraisal i received to 2kevinhill@gmail a couple hours ago. he must be laughing now. sorry i didn’t google it at the time to get to this blog. guess i got excited someone was interested in one of my domains. i dont know if i can dispute this with paypal since they did deliver an appraisal which i ordered.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:56:24 +0000

Got my money back.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:57:12 +0000

I replied to this guy with “No thanks. Go to http://www.dotweekly.com/2009/07/29/domain-appraisal-scam-kevin-hill/ ”

Thanks so much for this site!

Erik

By: RFW

RFW — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:28:14 +0000

Thanks for this post. Very helpful, indeed.