MarryOurDaughter.com Scam Alert: It’s sick and twisted in a creepy family values kind of way, but Marry Our Daughter is also a big phishing scam. Check out these marryourdaughter profiles of 13-year-old and 14-year-old girls up for sale to anyone who wants to pay their ”bride price.”Â
Now Marry Our Daughter is so disgusting that it can’t possibly be true, but curiosity compels us to take a look anyway!
From the Marry Our Daughter web site: “Marry Our Daughter is an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their Daughters.
We charge a variable fee per listing, depending on the bride price requested and other factors. Potential grooms are not charged. We do not assist in negotiations, we only provide introductions.”
Phishing Website Proof
The marryourdaughter.com website seems real and perverted at the same time, so it’s got a huge viral marketing buzz going on, but it’s a phishing site that wants your email address. The Marry Our Daughter domain name was only registered July 7th with GoDaddy.com (with ownership hidden from view), so there’s no way they could actually have any real “testimonials” yet.
MarryOurDaughter even uses tricks like “scarcity” and special “clearance sale” pricing to entice you. Who wouldn’t want a great deal on a 17-year-old foster child (almost 18 and on the clearance rack) that you could pick up cheap for $3,995, especially after some of the other good ones have already gotten “engaged” through the site…
Interested in listing your daughter on MarryOurDaughter.com? Well, it’s gonna cost you some big bucks! Quote from the Marry Our Daughter site:
“Bride Price Wanted:Â
 You can select any Bride Price you choose, but if we approve your daughter for listing then we will charge you an upfront fee of 5% of the Bride Price you are requesting. That is the only payment we will ever ask for.
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Please write a short description of your Daughter, what she is like, what she knows of life, what she wants in a husband, based on the above conversations. This information will be used to develop your Daughter’s MARRY OUR DAUGHTER listing.”
MarryOurDaughter is all a big phishing scam to trick people into submitting their email addresses so huge email lists can be sold to spammers.
None of the so-called contacts at the site - Roger Mandevan (Publicity Director), Â Bill Wallington, or Jarrod Hightower - have any Google online history. Very strange for a Publicity Director to not be in Google anywhere else:
Phishing Scam Bottom Line: It’s all a big viral marketing scam, but it is a rather “remarkable” one like the Facebook Wendy prank last week (beautiful girl on vacation loses digital camera at beach with naughty pics on it). Too bad it turned out to be a buzz marketing promo for an adult website.
It’s OK to visit this creepy Marry Our Daughter website where underage teenage girl brides are for sale just to see it for yourself, but don’t enter your real email address trying to be funny, outraged, or even - heaven forbid -Â to buy yourself a child bride.
That’s what the scammers at the MarryOurDaughter.com phishing website are counting on!
Latest update on Marry Our Daughter.com
OK, I admit I wasn’t using my noggin correctly when I wrote this. I’m so used to seeing scams that are designed to capture email addresses that I assumed that’s what they were doing at Marry Our Daughter.
Well, you now the old saying: “If you assume, you only make and ass out of u and me…”
Here’s a link to Brad Stone’s excellent article in THe New York Times on the real deal behind MarryOurDaughter.com
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/please-dont-marry-our-daughters/
The site was indeed a hoax and intended to provoke debate on the marriage laws in our country. Personally, I prefer Arkansas where currently you can get married at any age as long as the girl isn’t pregnant. Of course, if she is pregnant, you have to wait until she is 18…
So, what’s next in the MarryOurDaughter or Marry my Daughter world?
I’m thinking a new MTV reality show called Pimp My Daughter isn’t far off!
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September 5th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
god that’s perverted stuff selling your daughter like that. what r these ppl thinking?
September 6th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
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September 6th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
What a shame this is fake. My daughter is such a pain in the a** I would love to make some money off her nuptials as it would partially pay us back for all the heartache she has put us through. I’m sure I would need to pay someone to take her off our hands. Anyone interested?
September 6th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Why would someone put that much effort to get emails? You can get ‘em a whole lot easier than that.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:22 am
No Michael Johnson, but I am interested in reporting you to the police for trying to sell her. Or if you’re not serious, just your nearest enemy for being horrible
September 8th, 2007 at 8:23 am
MarryOurDaughter.com is not a phishing site (and would be a poor attempt at one, if phishing was their true intention aka a lot of effort for little reward.) It is a very obvious satirical comedy, much like a skit from Mad TV or Saturday Night Live, which have parodied topics just as sensitive. How could any intelligent person actually think that this website was offering a real service or that real people participating in illegal activity would leave public testimonials and photographs of their daughters? Come on, now. Use that noggin.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Beg to differ on that one…
Create a brand new email account with Yahoo and enter it at marryourdaughter.com
Sit back and watch the spam roll in…
September 12th, 2007 at 10:26 am
in response to big ladopus, there was a case of a mother soliciting the services of grown men online for her children 4 daughters betweent he ages of 6-13, she had done it frequently but this one time she was soliciting an cop online and they got her. There was also a case a few days ago about 6 people (mother and daughter teams and a son) holding a woman hostage for a week torturing and raping her repeatedly. If these things can happen why is it hard to think idiots would sell their children? whether or not its a phising scam, it is morally incorrect and the United States needs to pay more attention to these fools here causing trouble.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
This was common practice 100 Years ago and in some countries today it still go’s on people! check India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Etc. This was a good joke it just go’s to show how screwed up the politicians have made our legal system.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
As Tom said, this is a practice that has been going on for centuries. It continues to happen and you know what? It’s necessarily a bad thing. I’ve known a few people who were in arranged marriages - and yes, there is always an exchange of money or goods - and they were quite happy with the whole situation. What they decidedly WERE NOT happy with was the reaction they got from North American people when they leaned of the custom. In many countries and cultures dowries and the like are still traded even without the marriage being arranged.
This website though, were it “real”, wouldn’t be a just representation of arranged marriage. This is much more of a slave auction, judging by the “bios” and “testimonials”.
Lastly, to all of the people complaining about “buying a person”: have you looked at “private adoption” recently? You should, and it’s completely legal.
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