Comments on: Domain Transfer Scam

By: john

john — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:53:50 +0000

Hi, i have an issue with domain transfer scam. I have paid someone $150 for a domain name and the seller took the money and rejected transfer. I have contacted network solution, but they couldn’t do anything. I can’t sue the seller because he doesn’t live in the US. what kind of legal action can i take to get the domain or my money

thanks

By: Scam

Scam — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:07:19 +0000

Similarly, also watch out for the domain renewal scam.

With this, the scammer will pretend to be your domain registrar and will email, asking for payment to renew your domain name (they have checked whois to see it is expiring soon).

They will then either take your cash and/or your credit card and other details.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:39:58 +0000

hahahah wicked, same happened to me, luckily i wanted it last year and bought petershort.net instead. thank you spammy guys

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:32:20 +0000

Just got this same scam……. I almost went through with it, but luckily I thought to check it real quick while I was waiting for a reply email from them…

By: porcupine

porcupine — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:30:27 +0000

actually they did me a favour….. it let me know that the .com I was after was available…. I shall now purchase it directly

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:03:53 +0000

I LOVE IT! What a great idea! Start looking for my spams offering those domains for $49 soon. Plenty of room to undercut these guys and still make a mint.

It’s only fraud if I take their money and don’t deliver the domain. Worst case, if the domain is already registered, I just have to refund the $49.

Lets see… I’ll need a new site to do this. Maybe “dumberce.com”. And I’ll need a cool company mission statement. I like “SELL domains, SAIL yachts”.

This is gonna be great.

Rob

By: devin

devin — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:32:27 +0000

I just got an almost identical spam (which is why I found this entry), except with a different domain name (obviously :-), and “sale” spelled correctly.

In reply to the comment about whether this is legal, I am no lawyer, but I think it meets the criteria for fraud. The necessary elements are that a knowing misrepresentiaton of fact is made with the intention of inducing the victim to act so as to result in injury or damage.

The inducement is obvious — they intend that I register with them for $89.95, causing me damage since I could have the same service for very much less,

The misrepresentation is more subtile, but is the false statement that the domain is “for sale through Dommerce” — it is not. At the time they made the representation, they did not own any rights to the domain, hence they could not offer them for sale.