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Elite Web Investing Solutions LLC - Scam letters
FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010 15:42 WRITTEN BY GREG ROGERS
A number of businesses and individuals who list domain names for sale with Sedo.com receive unsolicited scam emails. A business known as Elite Web Investing Solutions LLC using various author names such as
goncalves@elitenethosting.com peruse the Sedo.com domain for sale listings. Elite web hosting then sends spam emails to owners of the domain names expressing a desire to buy the domain without using the services of Sedo.com. It seems that the people behind this email scam obtain owner names and contact detials from whois records as private whois users are not targeted by Elite.
When the unknowing domain owner responds to the Elite Web Hosting phishing email a price is negotiated and the domain owner is asked to provide a "domain name valuation" from entities controlled by or associated with Elite Web Hosting. We can find no reference to any Sedo customer ever actually selling a domain to Elite Web Hosting... just people who have paid out money in the hope that they are genuine buyers.
Sedo.com is not connected to Elite Web Hosting and or EliteNetHosting or Elite Investment Group and is a victim of the scam as it is Sedo customers who are targeted.
Here is the bait email sent to Sedo customers. BEWARE
Hello,
How much do you ask for this domain for sale?
Our company invests in domains and developed web sites. If you have other
domains for sale feel free to send your list.
Looking forward to do business with you.
Regards,
Daniel Golcaves
Vice President
Elite Web Investing Solutions LLC
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NOTICE - This communication may contain confidential and privileged
information that is for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any
viewing, copying or distribution of, or reliance on this message by
unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message
and deleting it from your computer.
Here are the domain whois details for Elite
ICANN Registrar:
GODADDY.COM, INC.
Created:
2010-04-15
Expires:
2011-04-15
Updated:
2010-04-15
Registrar Status:
clientDeleteProhibited
clientRenewProhibited
clientTransferProhibited
clientUpdateProhibited
Name Server:
NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM (has 26,027,055 domains)
NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM (has 26,027,055 domains)
Whois Server:
whois.godaddy.com
General TLDs:
EliteNetHosting.com (registered and active website)
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
Domain Name: ELITENETHOSTING.COM
Created on: 15-Apr-10
Expires on: 15-Apr-11
Last Updated on: 15-Apr-10
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598
Technical Contact:
Private, Registration
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598
Domain servers in listed order:
NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Here is an article on a Daniel Goncalves
Source -
Grand Jury Indicts Daniel Goncalves On Domain Theft Charges | Domain Name News
11|16|2009 5:49 pm EDT
