Got a strange E-mail saying someone wants to buy my site

[froggyboy604]

The person is from India, she wants to buy my site because it gets search traffic, and she does not give me a price she is willing to pay for my site she just say she will give me a reasonable price.

It sounds like a weird letter which might be spam or a scam.

Hi,
Are you the owner?
I am a Full time webmaster from India looking for the blogs that get traffic from search engines.
While browsing, I just saw your website and it looks interesting to me and i hope it can feed my needs.
Please do let me know if you have any plans of selling this website, I would like to buy it for a reasonable price.

 

[Jake]

Junk it.

 

[Patrick S.]

Toss it or setup a spam email and reply.
Just remember payment first if legit.

 

[kavin]

Might be real too. As Patrick said, try getting payment first before you give access to your site.

 

[Nuke]

Ask if it's a bot.

And also give your own price.

See how it goes.

 

[Combo]

Just see how it goes but don't give any details away. No harm can be done. 🙂

 

[froggyboy604]

I also use google to search the guys name, and message. He seems to post comments on other people blogs and forums with the exact same message, so I feel if I reply to his e-mail. I get a ton of spam in my spam box or a virus from his e-mails.

 

[Guardian]

I would toss it. The ability to sell is always nice, but sometimes not worth the hassle if it doesn't seem legit.

In all cases, you can blacklist the email, won't receive from it anymore.

 

[Nacho!]

I read the first line and automatically thought it's a scam. Do not buy that crap.

 

[Fait]

Just Junk it sounds like a robot to me no person would randomly just want to buy your site.

And how much traffic does your site get is it interesting enough to buy?

 

[froggyboy604]

I get 200-300+ visitors a day on my site, so I think very few people want to randomly buy my site for much money since there are many other sites for sale with a lot better traffic on Flippa.com .

 

[XcapeX]

Yeah just get rid of it. Not worth the hassle.

 

[magicmagick.com]

actually, it should be suspicious if they didn't mention your website's NAME.

it means they don't even know you website and they want something else from you.

 

[froggyboy604]

The e-mailer did use my contact form, and got the captcha code right, so it could be a real person, or a bot which cracked my Captcha code. But, they did not even bother using my real first name which is not hard to find if they read my About page, blog post with my name on them as the Author, or click on my Twitter, or YouTube link on my site at http://johnsonyip.com to find my name.Plus, my name is in my site link.

I just didn't repied since I rather sell the site on a more trustworthy site like Flippa, or website selling forums then a random e-mail where the person does not talk about price or know who I am.

 

[tronik]

I'd send a email back if you are considering selling your website and then I would have my "guard" up. I would take all precautions necessary to make sure I don't get scammed. If she pays you via paypal, make sure payment is sent first before pushing the domain. I'd also make sure that her paypal account is verified and hold payment for 24 hrs before sending her anything.