I’m on to you! — Hey Rexanne

A humorous spate of domain inquiries.

Rexanne, did you file for a name change today?

At 8:18 AM this morning I received an email from Rexanne Baird inquiring regarding one of my domain names:

Hello,

The reason I am contacting you is my interest in buying your website – ——-.com . If you are interested, could you please give me your phone number, so I can call you, or just write me back.
I have cash to buy today!

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you

Interestingly, the “from” address on the email was [email protected], which tipped off my suspicion (not to mention the “cash today” line). The “reply to” address was a gmail account. Also suspicious was that, instead of just being addressed to my e-mail, the to line had my domain name in it.

I Googled for Rexanne Baird and the name came back empty. And it’s no wonder. Apparently, between 8:18 AM this morning and 9:12AM, Rexanne got married and changed her last name to Winton. Here’s the next e-mail I received, this time from Rexanne Winton, again with separate from and reply-to addresses:

Hello,

I am interested in purchasing your web site ——-.com . If you would like to sell it send me your phone number to call you.
I have cash to buy today!

Thank you

Looks familiar, doesn’t it? The subject lines on the e-mails changed slightly, too.

Rexanne, if you got married this morning you really ought to be taking a break from buying domain names!

But my hats off to you, whomever you are, for coming up with a system to e-mail with these clever alterations.

And I will sell these domains to you. Just don’t ask me to wire some money to Nigeria.

[I’m taking one for the team here and responded with my phone number. I’ll let you know how that conversation goes.]