Flippa PM SPAM?

[Clinton]

I've been getting reports of PM spam from someone called webscript360. He seems to be targeting only older, dormant SP marketplace accounts with the following boilerplate email:

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply, is your website still available? I am still
interested!
Please email me your Buy It Now price as soon as possible ..I check email
more often.

regards,
Edward K. Allison
edwardkallison@gmail.com

http:// www. massivebacklink .com [edit: link intentionally broken - Clinton]

The name seems fake (Google has only this on that name, it's unlikely a patent attorney has suddenly developed an interest in Flippa sites). Can't figure out what this guy's game is. Can you?

[benitez17]

I got it as well, and just ignored it. Maybe he is trying to find people who had listings that didn't sell and snap them up for a bargain, or maybe the url contains malware and he is trying to hack people's computers. If it is the former, his scattershot approach might have some success if he isn't banned by Flippa already, because there are definitely a lot of people on Flippa who listed a site that didn't sell (even though I am not one of them).

[tke71709]

Or it's a new version of the domain appraisal scam e-mails that circulate.

[LukeMoulton]

We had a problem with PM spam lat last week and have made changes to our system to try to remedy this.