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Stolen Domains Sold On DNForum - WOW. Scam Of The Year…?
March 7, 2008
WOW is all I have to say about this. I was hesitant post this up, but JEEZ! What the hell is up with all these scammers on the loose? Was taking a look at DomainGate.com’s post about not brokering stolen domain names and started to read the thread that was being discussed in the post.
Supposedly someone sold some stolen domains on DNForum… and uhh… some really good domains (”This guy mentioned a lot of higher class names to me (original poster) like ant.com, y8.com which were sites, others like add.us, pinkpussies.com, streetsluts.com and more”) for a lot of money:
He just sold pornos.com for 6 figures to another member here
Some more interesting quotes from the thread:
i was told from the original owner that the thief sold names for over 690,000$
Turns out it’s just a bunch of teens messing with a lot of cash and getting themselves into a load of trouble. International scams, domain stealing, money gone missing… I have a headache. I’m on page 11 of 14 (9PM Pacific Time–I’m sure it’ll be 14+ later)… extremely depressing.
I like to think my domains are safe but this stuff just gives me a headache. I made a post before on what you can do to protect yourself with domain sales and domain flipping, but things are just really spiraling out of control.
Try to be safe, people.