I found the following in my email box today:
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
To: sean@conman.org
Subject: the domain con guy email
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:04:24 EST
> Hi, I just read your post on your site about the domain name guy. I did a search for domainguardsystem.com because I has just received the same email from him, only of course a different domain. When I checked on the .com domain of the .org that I used to own, it was available also. This silly person is trying to sell domains he does not own for a huge markup. You can buy the name with GoDaddy for $7.69 using a discount code and probably cheaper at other places, and he wants to sell names he does not own for $99!! Unreal … At any rate, I am glad you posted about it. He only bought his domain in October, so he is fairly new at this and seems to be targeting the owners of dot orgs right now.
Cindy
Glad I could help, Cindy (and it seems that Cindy [1] blogged about domainguardsystem.com [2] as well).
[1] http://www.thewahmagazine.com/about/
[2] http://www.thewahmagazine.com/2008/12/10/beware-of-a-domain-name-buying-scam/