All of a sudden, my email inbox has been receiving a flood of messages from several peculiar sources asking me if I would like to sell various websites. Each of these emails has a bizarre name attached to it (Tansy Holdeman, Lagina Keilbach, Hadley Sullivan, Brock Diegel, etc.) that sounds like it has come from some Harlequin romance name generator, and they all have the same content.

These fucked up emails all come with various headings like: Website Selling, Website Purchasing, Business Proposal, Your Website, Domain Purchasing, My Offer, and More!

Hello,

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you

Fuck off please!

I've chatted with friends who get snared by this promise of wealth from selling a website, and they get lured into getting their website "appraised" by some shifty website appraisal business that charges you $250 or so to tell you that your website is worth $1,000. After you've spent the money to show that your website is worth what you think it is, the buyer backs away saying they've changed their mind, meanwhile they've made their money on your appraisal.

You know what? That is fucked up.

If you're going to sell your website, go through a respected broker, eBay, or through a webmaster forum where at least you'll be able to recognize the difference between the scammers and the legitimate business people.

Just when I thought the Nigerian scams were over, something new comes in to take its place. Fuckers.