Welcome to my school.
Stevie's Scam School.
Yeah, great.
Hello. My name is Stevie, the reformed scam artist,
and I'm here to teach you how to avoid being scammed.
On with today's lesson.
I like to call this one the ‘domain name scam’.
What happens, right, is that you’re presented with a real
professional looking letter
or email claiming you owe money for your domain name.
Here’s the clever part, right?
The domain name is so similar to one you actually own, that you don’t even notice!
It may be only a letter different, or end in a different extension like .net
or .com.au
As the payments are often automated, getting a payment is a real synch!
I used to double or triple what a domain name usually costs!
ZAP! Pretty smart right?!
…and to think, all you would have to do is to check the bill carefully before paying
and double check that the domain name is actually yours!!
…or check the company sending the invoice
is the one you registered your original domain name with!
Oh well. Guess some people just don’t pick up on these things hey?
But hey, there’ll be no fooling you now, right?
Stevie’s Scam School. Yeah! Nice!