Kingdomobi
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- Oct 29, 2019
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IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BAD IF THIS HAPPENED 
Yesternight, around 2am, actually I was building links when my friend dropped a message in our WhatsApp group (bloggers group). The message read that he was contacted by GoDaddy and someone was interested in buying his domain for $60,000 so he needed advice, actually just 5 persons were awake out of over 200members,
So we started planning his life for him, budgeted how he'd use the money to build house, buy car, marry, reinvest and of course share us some percentage of which he promised to if the deal went successfully.
Along the line he said they requested for certificate validation to prove that he's the real owner, thus he has to pay $299 to get his certificate drafted and validated by their lawyer before the deal can commence (acting like a GoDaddy employee), at this point we got puzzled, one of the guys awake reluctantly suggested he should tell them to commence with certificate validation with their own fund then after the purchase, they will reimburse them(GoDaddy team or so).
Other(like me) suggested the mail screenshot should be sent to check if it's a legit sender, here's what we got
What do you think? Legit right?
So actually we saw the mailer address as legit and advised him to proceed, he was convinced and wanted to, but saved his ass by suggesting he ask around to know how this certificate validation works, Look what we got(that same night)
Oops, that scam was seductive!!!
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I hope we learn from this experience, stay safe
Yesternight, around 2am, actually I was building links when my friend dropped a message in our WhatsApp group (bloggers group). The message read that he was contacted by GoDaddy and someone was interested in buying his domain for $60,000 so he needed advice, actually just 5 persons were awake out of over 200members,
So we started planning his life for him, budgeted how he'd use the money to build house, buy car, marry, reinvest and of course share us some percentage
of which he promised to if the deal went successfully.Along the line he said they requested for certificate validation to prove that he's the real owner, thus he has to pay $299 to get his certificate drafted and validated by their lawyer before the deal can commence (acting like a GoDaddy employee), at this point we got puzzled, one of the guys awake reluctantly suggested he should tell them to commence with certificate validation with their own fund then after the purchase, they will reimburse them(GoDaddy team or so
).Other(like me) suggested the mail screenshot should be sent to check if it's a legit sender, here's what we got
What do you think? Legit right?
So actually we saw the mailer address as legit and advised him to proceed, he was convinced and wanted to, but saved his ass by suggesting he ask around to know how this certificate validation works, Look what we got(that same night)
Oops, that scam was seductive!!!
Mail content
I hope we learn from this experience, stay safe
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