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#1
June 15th, 2007, 07:00 PM
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Legitimate Request or Not?
Hi guys, I just received the following email request via my site contact form:
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So to give him a fair valuation I went to the site, and then also googled the domain to see what I would find. Well I have come across several sites with the exact same email so I'm thinking that this dude is not legitimate.
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June 15th, 2007, 07:46 PM
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Well I have about 30 sites tied to my e-mail but go with your gut ... "money doesnot matter for me" is a crimson flag.
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June 15th, 2007, 07:59 PM
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It wasn't so much that I found his email address, but I found that same email that was sent to me verbatim...I also find it odd that he says money isn't in issue. In that case it's going to be $100K to do his site
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June 17th, 2007, 09:45 AM
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Recived the exact same email.
We actually were gullible enough to follow it through, but after having exchanged a couple of emails with them it is CLEAR that it is simply an attempt to get you to register. Here is how we are handling the issue: Quote:
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June 17th, 2007, 09:54 AM
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More of the same:
http://www.developreneurs.com/website-design/238766.html http://www.multilingual-search.com/japan-web-development-and-web-marketing-consortium/06/04/2007/en/
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June 17th, 2007, 11:11 AM
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This is how they replied to the email:
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June 18th, 2007, 02:19 PM
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Here's my rule of thumb. If they can't take two seconds to spell check their message, I just delete their message. If they ARE legit, I wouldn't want to do business with them anyway.
I understand that English is not the first language for most people. But if you want to use it, then use it properly. I don't go around bastardizing other languages, stop ruining mine.
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June 21st, 2007, 02:23 PM
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I got the same request from this guy. I told him I'd give him a full proposal if he pays my consultation fee of $50 USD. If he's not just a spammer he should have no problem with that, especially on a 75K budget.
They're showing up in a wiki as well, which contains warnings about them which keep getting erased. I can't post the url, but its at aboutus dot org slash bizpam dot com perhaps a "real" member can repost that in clicky form
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June 22nd, 2007, 09:20 AM
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