**** APPRAISAL SCAM ****
Do you get emails promising to buy your domain under the condition that you get it appraised in a site of the promising buyer's choice?
DO NOT FALL INTO THIS TRAP!
Many complaints have surfaced that someone is luring domain owners into paying for an appraisal and then refusing to buy the domain. This scammer uses multiple emails and names and is possibly in collusion with one or more of the appraising sites ( www.FastDomainSales.com or www.allfordomains or www.GreatDomains.com or www.HollywoodDomains.com or . )
Some names and email addresses used by the scammer are listed below. If you have received such a request, please forward the complete email with header to support@idnauction.com to be listed here (your own email address can be removed for privacy reasons). Also include how much money you lost because of the scam. If the total amount is over $5000 (including different victims) FBI will launch a formal criminal inquiry.
1. George Martin - georgemartin@toughguy.net uses a phantom Martin Software Consulting company).
2. Jack Martin - jackmartin@toughguy.net
3. Trevor Berger - tbergman@toughguy.net - uses a phantom Chams Consulting or Soft Consulting
4. Trevor Berger - trevorb@toughguy.net - uses a phantom Chams Consulting or Cham Consulting
5. George Bergman - gbergman@softhome.net - uses a phantom Swiss Software Consulting company
6. Andrew Chapman - achapman@rock.com
7. Tinto Berger - Intech Consulting
8. Thomas Lassen, PhD - BN Engineering
9. Michael Kayser, B ON Engineering
10. Andrew Kayat - Back End Software Engineering
11. Edward Kramer, BN Engineering
12. Richard Chavez, Tough Technologies Consulting
13. Darren Gaudry, Phreaker Technologies
14. Sarah Murray, TNT Software Consulting
15. Stephen Shapiro, Back Office Network Solutions
16. Wayne Shaefer, Bone Network Solutions
17. Peter Stichbury, Back Office Net Solutions
18. Lorin Yeaton, info@liberalist.com
19. Brian Meredith, brian_meredith@toughguy.net, TGS software
20. Anthony Garringer, President, TGNet Consulting, garringer@toughguy.net
The same person owns multiple domains toughguy.net, hotpop.com, jerky.net, and perhaps softforces.com , all of which are located in the same server, with the same registrant information. Recently he has began registering domains by proxy (hiding personal data) in oversea companies. His new emails comes from liberalist.com.
Hotpop LLC is incorporated in State of Massachusetts and its registration information can be seen at MA LLC Search.
http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/CorpSearchSummary.asp?ReadFromDB=True&UpdateAllowed=&FEIN=000740283
where the real name of the scammer and address can be obtained as
Andrew Shoemaker
61 Prescott St
Newton
MA 02640
Lodge your complaint with Federal Trade Commission:
http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/cmplanding.shtm
Please file a complaint and include reference No. 11858316 …. it only takes a few minutes. Here is the letter from the FTC:
Ref. No. 11858316