John Berryhill posted on Namepros with regards to someone impersonating Escrow.com
From the post:
Someone is using the domain name avst.email in order to impersonate Escrow.com.
The scam works like this:
- You receive a great offer on a domain name, accept and sign an agreement to use Escrow.com and split the fees.
- The buyer says they will set up an escrow.com transaction.
- Unlike the usual escrow.com process flow, you will receive an email from “Escrow.com” asking you, the seller, to pay a transaction fee before they process and set up the transaction. They will include wire transfer instructions for payment of this fee to a bank account that has nothing to do with Escrow.com.
They do this using an email address of (person)@escrow.com.avst.email and the emails claim to be protected by AVAST! security software.
I was informed by someone who became curious, and started receiving some hilarious emails from “escrow.com”:
Check out thread on Namepros