DON'T BE FOOLED BY HIS INNOCENT LOOKS! HE CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE AND YOU WON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

Name: Shane Bellone
Company Name: Almost Inc. (not sure if he has this company registered or just a website name)
Profession: Domain Investor (at least that's what he says)
Socially Active: Namepros.com (or should we say, that's his favorite platform to ripoff people)

Before we start, we would first request our readers to know exactly what FRAUD means.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud

I know I know, we all know what fraud means. But when you get in the middle of this post, you might reconsider learning what actually the word 'fraud' means to different people out there.

Now, on with the story.

Today we bring you a shocking yet exciting news from the domaining industry. We believe that this domain scandal lead by Shane Bellone will hopefully open eyes of the industry and we will do our best to make sure that new domainers do not get caught in any con and scam of Shane Bellone.

So what's up with this domain fraud of Shane Bellone?

This guy Shane Bellone who claims to have sold domains worth six figures is a conman and a scammer of the domaining industry. Not sure how far his claims of selling domains for worth six figures are true, but we highly doubt the authenticity of his claims as this fraud domainer Shane Bellone has a history of deceiving, lying, conning, and is guilty of other fraudulent activities to earn cash.

The worst thing to note here about this domain conman Shane Bellone is that he has ripped off his own fellow domain investors using the community (Namepros.com) where he actively participate. It can be said without any doubt that Shane Bellone has marked Namepros forum for finding his victims for selling his domain scam and conducting other fraudulent activities.

SHAME ON YOU SHANE BELLONE

In this post, we will highlight few of his biggest recent scandals.

Shane Bellone Domain Scandal No.# 1

A little more about Shane Bellone and his scams, fraud, deceiving personality

Now here are Shane Bellone's words about how he thinks earning money and doing business is legitimate in his eyes. He once posted a comment on Namepros something like: 'he will do anything that can make him money " (and that includes deceiving and scamming people as well). I am rephrasing here but you can read his exact comments in his Flippa thread.

Now you can easily see what the ideology of Shane Bellone is about doing business. He will scam, deceive, lie even to his own community members for making cash money out of them, a community he has definitely learned a lot about domain investing and now Shane Bellone is going to rip domain investors of the same community.

All we can suggest is:

BEWARE OF SHANE BELLONE

So hopefully by now you may have realized about the negative character this con artist Shane Bellone holds. We now will proceed with his wrong doings.

We feel important to mention here that Shane Bellone used to work at Flippa as Domain Broker after selling his domain for $10,000, yes $10K, a domain that he bought for only $120 from a fellow domain investor just a couple of weeks ago and sold it within 30 days for $10K.

After joining Flippa, there were many rumors circulating about how Shane Bellone's domains mostly got above-market selling price in for his domains auctioned via Flippa. Many domainers at Namepros believe that Shane used his faulty means and influenced on his domain auctions using Flippa's inside staff to boost his domain auctions and to attract more bidders and high selling prices for his low quality and standard domain names.

Flippa Scandal

Shane Bellone started a topic on Namepros forum on September 16, 2015. You can read his thread here. Fraudulent Shane Bellone added many points in his post about how Flippa is overcharging domain sellers and that Flippa's premium features are not worth paying to sell domains on Flippa.

But wait, what's that last line about Flippa upgrades are not worth paying?

BINGO! Let's start from there. Before diving in, Flippa offers two premium upgrades; priced at $249 and $349. You can easily see how expensive these upgrades are for listing a single website or a domain name.

In below, we are quoting sew of Shane's comments from his current Flippa thread and his previous threads when heused to work at Flippa.

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Shane's Comments

Here are Shane Bellone's words from his original thread

"If you’re paying full price for listing fees and upgrades you have been scammed."

Another line from Shane against Flippa

"Oh you thought Editor’s choice was for good domains? Nah. It has been a filter for friends of Flippa."
]

Now what's wrong about Shane telling people that Flippa is scamming and it is not worth paying for Flippa's premium upgrades? We will tell you what the real story behind this is.

The actual conflict Shane had with the company was that Flippa had revoked Shane's "Super Seller" status (a badge type thingy awarded to Flippa sellers who have outstanding selling record). The reason why Flippa revoked Shane's status was because Shane was found bullying and making racial comments to another Flippa user who was having a domain auction at Flippa. After Shane's status got revoked by Flippa, he went crazy, mad, angry and furious (can be seen in his original Namepros Flippa thread). And look how he gets back and tries to humiliate the company (Flippa) he has served for months. But it was Shane Bellone's bad luck that this whole started by Shane only backfired at him, and pretty badly.

So instead of getting people to blame Flippa for its expensive and ineffective premium upgrade, Shane Bellone dug a hole for himself. How, continue reading.

Shane Bellon Scams, Lies and Deceits

Now here comes the juicy part.

Since Shane left Flippa supposedly in the mid of this year, he was not getting the perks he used to get for free during his stay at Flippa. You want to know what the perks were? According to Shane in his Flippa thread, he never paid for Flippa's premium upgrade for any of his domain he auctioned on Flippa.

So according to Shane's Flippa profile, he has total 22 transactions there and presumably the majority of these transactions were listed after he joined Flippa. So you can do the math of how many $$$$ he has saved here by availing thousands of dollars worth of upgrades for free.

Shane's number of transactions at Flippa can be seen here

On the other hand, as you can see above, the premium upgrades that Shane Bellone is now referring as "not worth paying" and "scam", are the same premium upgrades that Shane used to convince his fellow domain investors at Namepros forum, that these premium upgrades actually works.

Below are Shane Bellone's comments gathered from his current Flippa thread and other different posts. Comments clearly shows how he used to convince domain sellers using his con personality to buy Flippa's premium upgrades which now he is calling not worth paying:

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September 16th (from Shane's Flippa thread)
Shane Bellone said:
Oh you thought Editor’s choice was for good domains? Nah. It has been a filter for friends of Flippa.
When I sold on Flippa’s platform, I was given Editor’s Choice for nearly all of my domains. Why? Because I asked.

Vs.

March 3rd (Shane lying about Flippa's Editorial Choice)
Shane Bellone said:
Editors choice is quite random. You can't just email them and ask to be included. They try to pick some of the best ones...

September 16th (from Shane's Flippa thread)
Shane Bellone said:
If you’re paying full price for listing fees and upgrades you have been scammed.

Vs.

February 20th (Shane convincing domain investors to buy Flippa upgrades)
Shane Bellone said:
If you have something premium, buy the upgrades. It's really that simple. 

April 10th (Shane again convincing domain investors to buy Flippa upgrades)
Shane Bellone said:
In my honest opinion, I wouldn't call an upgrade a risk. It's an investment in order to see a return.
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So what this scammer and liar Shane Bellone is upto now?

After earning a bad name and humiliating himself by launching a thread against Flippa, Shane thought to regain his lost dignity. How? By starting a thread about a renowned domain investor and accusing him as a criminal. Again Shane Bellone has openly and stubbornly used lies and provided no proof in his thread while accusing a famous domain broker as a criminal. One can easily judge the character, mentality and how idiot Shane Bellone is.

Anyways we don't want to go dirty down the way along with Shane and his dirty work, but right now Shane Bellone is up to make some big bucks, even bigger than he has so far made selling (or should we say, SCAMMING) domain names. He is now collecting donation of $50,000. Yup, that's right. Shane says he is collecting funds to help raise money for a law case he has been dragged into and to help certain victims. LAW CASE, VICTIMS, Shane should have been more descriptive and clear about it but so far he is not.

According to a thread on Namepros when few people asked Shane to be more transparent about the funding he is collecting, Shane and a group of few members at Namepros who does the dirty work for Shane these days, started bashing the members who asked transparency questions from Shane. Although when after many senior members of the forum raised questions about being transparent, Shane had accepted that transparency is beneficial. But so far he has not given any specific breakdown of his fund collecting. Does this look transparent enough to you?

Innocent people are going to fund this maniac Shane Bellone with their hard earned money and in the end, it would really hurt them to realize that they just became Shane's new victims.

So far Shane has not been much transparent about how he will be using the funds and whether these funds will be paid to help the victims or the lawyers (if there are either of any).

Fraud Shane Bellone should be stopped

It is clear that we can now identify Shane Bellone as a:

Big Fraud
Dirty Scammer
Unethical Conman
Nonprofessional
Man With Huge Ego
Human With No Brain

And that he has no respect for others, not even for his industry pioneers whom I am sure he has learned a lot from to earn his claimed six figure domain sales amount.

We believe now is the time to stop this defrauder Shane Bellone and his evil SCAM of Domain Selling activities

If you are a victim of Shane's fake claims or any other fraudulent activity, or if he has scammed a domain out of you, then you are now welcome to join hands with us and stop this liar Shane Bellone from ripping off more people of the domain industry.

We will be updating this blog with more Shane Bellone and his fraudulent, deceiving, lying, scamming activities. Stay tuned. Until then,