Is this legit?

[FarBeyondDriven]

What up fastlaners,

I've been building a website in my spare time its nothing great and still has a long ways to go but i received an e-mail from someone wanting to buy the domain. It looks kinda fishy... what do you think?

" Hello!

I'm a broker of an investor from Brunei who wants to buy your mydomain.com

My client has $408 000 budget for 45-50 domains. Please specify your asking price in the subject of your message.

Our company is in hosting business. We also provide brokerage services for investors.

I'm working with many investors from USA, Canada, China, UAE etc. If you have other domains for sale please email them to me. I will offer them to my clients.

Please let me know the best way to pay you: IBAN/Wire transfer, Check, Western Union or Paypal. If it's your first time sale I can help you with the transfer process.

Best regards,

Isaac Franke

Domain Broker

Cloud Hosting Swiss

Switzerland
Basel
Centralbahnstrasse 19
Phone: 061 206 09 72 "

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Sounds scammy.

 

[WinYourself]

My alarm bells are ringing:

1. Mentioning a budget that is completely irrelevant for you

2. Asking for Payment details without having a signal of interest from you

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

Sounds scammy.

I think so too, I've never owned or sold a domain before so I wasn't sure if e-mails like this were typical.

Thank you

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Usually domain inquiries just come in as "I'm interested in xxxxx.com, how much do you want?" All the superfluous info and details is what sounds scammy.

 

[randomnumber314]

At the little internet company I run gets these emails all the time. They tend to be templates and phishing. When our company got our first investor the email basically stated "Hi I'm ceo of XXX and I love your site. Do you have time to chat on XXday?"

 

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[FarBeyondDriven]

Thanks for the input everyone. The e-mail came from info@cloud-platform-hosting.info
I entered cloud-platform-hosting.info and it brings you to this website http://www.vpspace.com/ their contact info is based out of Switzerland.

Should I even reply to this?

 

[3things]

Whois on the cloud-platform-hosting.info email address domain above:

Registrant Name:Roland Gordon
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: mattenstrasse 12
Registrant City:Cham
Registrant State/Province:Cham
Registrant Postal Code:6330
Registrant Country:CH
Registrant Phone:+41.794024086
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:dntrader75@hotmail.com

Doesn't appear to be any connection to the site the .info currently 301's to. Sounds pretty scammy and best avoided.

Edit: google the phone # in the whois: +41.794024086 and there's others who got the same email, same kind of story, different name. Delete it and move on.

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

Edit: google the phone # in the whois: +41.794024086 and there's others who got the same email, same kind of story, different name. Delete it and move on.

Done.

 

[3things]

Lol, just doing some further reading...turns out that email is the first step in a simple old scam to get you to sign up/buy a domain appraisal. A bit like e-whoring on Craigslist, but with domain appraisals