Macez.com Another Domain Appraisal Scam

I just received the same email. Damn scammers…

I got an email today from the same email address. I googled it and found your post warning about the scam. I knew something was funny when he’s in anther state and wanted to buy nashvilletechsupport.com

I hate scammers, and if you fall for this, it will cost you like $22.00, so run away!

Glad I found your post a a few others like it.

I just received:

We are interested to buy your domain name ————–.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,

Paul White

I have been a victim of such fraud emails, that was when I started domaining with only around 50 domains in hand, and I was so excited to get such offer email, I think I gave around $250 to them for appraising 7-8 domains. I did not receive a single email after paying them, the buyer was gone, ofcourse he did a good job this time, not me.

Thank you for posting this, my skepticism and your post saved me cash.

Funny. I got one this morning on a domain we let expire back in January.

This time it was from Mark Allen [markallen38@gmail.com] though. : )

Brian

Just got this e-mail myself. I’ll let you know if they make an offer.

I’ve got a few and one mentioned fleos.com and one from john harris for podzz.com

I received a dozen of these original scam emails a year or more aqo. I responded to each by telling them that i did not subscribe to the theory of third-party Domain Appraisals and that 100% of my asking price of $XXX was the only offer i was interested in negotiating.

Naturally, I got no response… duh!

Got one of these email about a year ago. It just looked off so I didn’t reply. Got another this AM. When I googled “macez.com” I found your posting.
Thanks

Hey thanks for the post. Very helpful!I got the email today and said if they want to pay for the appraisal,I will send them a receipt…A free appraisal service. WOW! HA HA

anyone to include sedo and afternic and buy domains and the rest of the registrars and domain re-sellers have no business doing domain appraisals, that is a direct “conflict of interest” think about it! they are in the business of buying and selling domains….why would you take their word for an appraisal, maybe they wish to lowball you so they can buy it out fropm under you…..it’s about time,ICANN and some other regulators do something about this

I have just received the same email asking for flytofly.com…

Thanks for posting this, a simple Google search just saved me some $$$ after I got one of these emails today.

Thank you for posting this information; I am forwarding a copy of this link and the contact information I received to the FBI and other state and county authorities here. I would like to encourage all of you who have received this email to do the same. Together we can make sure that those involved in this type of crime are punished. Incidently, look at the header information regarding the email and post it here if you will.

A COPY OF THE EMAIL I RECEIVED:
We are interested to buy your domain name ftworthtelephone.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

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Domain: macez.COM
Status: Protected

DNS:
ns1.ezydomain.com
ns2.ezydomain.com

Created: 2009-07-05 02:20:57
Expires: 2010-07-05 02:20:57
Last Modified: 2009-07-05 02:19:13

Registrant Contact:
Whoisprotection.cc
Domain Admin (reg_460128@whoisprotection.cc)
Lot 2-1, Incubator 1, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia 57000
P: +603.89966788 F: +603.0

Administrative Contact:
Whoisprotection.cc
Domain Admin (adm_460128@whoisprotection.cc)
Lot 2-1, Incubator 1, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia 57000
P: +603.89966788 F: +603.0

Technical Contact:
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Domain Admin (tec_460128@whoisprotection.cc)
Lot 2-1, Incubator 1, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia 57000
P: +603.89966788 F: +603.0

Billing Contact:
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Lot 2-1, Incubator 1, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil
Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia 57000
P: +603.89966788 F: +603.0

The previous information has been obtained either directly from the registrant or a registrar of the domain name other than Network Solutions. Network Solutions, therefore, does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.

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Current Registrar: WEB COMMERCE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED DBA WEBNIC.CC
IP Address: 124.217.231.209 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: MY(MALAYSIA)-WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN-KUALA LUMPUR
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: Other 1
Lock Status: clientDeleteProhibited
WebSite Status: Active
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
WebSite Title: Macez | Domain Appraisal Experts
Secure: No
Ecommerce: No
Traffic Ranking: Not available
Data as of: 22-Apr-2008

Here is my answer to this scammer:

Mark,

Thank you for contacting us. We are willing to sell you our domain. We made an apparisal at macez.com, the site gave us the value of one million US$.

Please send 700 tousand dollars to our paypal asshole!!!

Hi Margaret,

I never made any conclusion, only posted the information you gave me and according to the ARIN WHOIS report. On another note, you did confirm with me by telephone that at one point your company had been or was involved in domian appraisal an or registration. You stated that your company had a product called “macez” or Mac-EZ as you have stated. Check my post at #32. Run your own “whois” on MACEZ, with network solutions, under the section Y! Directory listing, click it. Your companies information is found there. Since your company information is located in one part of the “WHOIS” database (which is not so much a part of the record, but more a part of a feature Network Solutions offers as part of the record) I posted the information. You can check network solutions by going to http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/macez.com and click on the Y! Directory listng. Thank you for clearing that up. In regard to the actual record for macez.com it is “protected” by a third party registrar. The information for that company can be found by contacting the third party company and explaining the fraudulent activity, and/or submitting a request to ICAAN explaining the situation.

I received the Paul White version last week too. I’ve been getting some version of these appraisal scam emails since around 2005, hard to believe it is still going around after all this time!

Got one in my inbox too. I went to the appraisal site and quickly feel that this guy is just trying to make me spend money. A little googling and here I am …

re: Fraud

Isn’t all spam mail now a crime?