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A free or throwaway sending inbox
A trading company quoting containers from a consumer or disposable inbox tells you what you are dealing with.
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Containers & drayage: one score out of 1,000 in about 10 seconds
A container or a drayage move is quoted by cold email, prepaid in full, and confirmed only after the money has left.
Whoever is buying the box or booking the move — often a one-person logistics desk working from an inbox. Paste the email address or the web address, read the reasons, and make the call. The first check needs no account.
Typical wire $3K – $60K · illustrative transaction size, not a loss estimate
What matters here
3 tells that carry the most weight
02
A web address with no archived past
Container brokers who have traded for years leave a trail. A first-year record is worth a pause.
03
A name shadowing a known line or depot
Copied depot and line names are common because buyers recognise them instantly.
What a check reads
5 public record types, every time
Cold-email trading is where the inbox type matters most: a real trader quotes from their own domain, and the domain has a past.
How the score is built- Registration date
- When the web address was first registered, and who the registrar is, straight from the domain record.
- Mail setup
- Whether the domain can receive mail at all, and whether it has sender rules that stop other people sending as it.
- Site and archive history
- Whether the site answers today, what it says it is, and how far back an archived copy of it goes.
- Near-match names
- Whether the address is a one-character or one-word variant of a better-known name.
- Free and throwaway inboxes
- Whether a commercial quote arrived from a consumer provider or a disposable inbox.
Before the money leaves
5 steps a score cannot do for you
- 01Insist on the depot address and call the depot directly on a number you found yourself.
- 02Never prepay the full amount on a first deal with a seller you found by cold email.
- 03Ask for the container numbers and a release reference before money moves.
- 04Read the sending address character by character against the quote.
- 05Save the quote, the sending address, and the bank details before paying.
A worked example
How one of these reads
The situation
A cold email quotes forty-foot containers at a good number, prepay in full.
What the record says
The sending inbox is a free provider, the quoted company's domain is two months old, and no site history exists.
The reading
Critical band, with the free inbox and the young domain shown as the reasons.
Illustrative example built from the record types a check reads — registration dates, mail setup, site history, and near-match names. Not a real vendor.
Questions we get
4 questions, answered straight
How do I check a container seller I found by cold email?
Paste the sending email address. You get a score out of 1,000 in about 10 seconds with the reasons: inbox type, when the web address was registered, whether the site has history, and whether the name shadows a known line or depot.
Is prepaying a container purchase in full ever safe?
It is the highest-risk version of this trade. Even on a clear score, keep part of the payment until you have a release reference and the depot has confirmed the box on a call you placed.
Can a check confirm a depot or a shipping line?
No. It reads the record behind the email address and the web address you paste. Depot and line confirmation is a phone call you make yourself.
What score should stop a prepay?
Anything in the critical band (0–400) means the record disagrees with the story badly enough to stop and call. Caution (401–700) means look at the named reasons before you send.
What a score does not say
A score reads public records about an email address or a web address. It is an observation, not a guarantee, and it does not tell you whether a specific payment is safe. The manual steps still matter.
Built and run by a named person, not an anonymous site — who is behind this and how the score is built.
Building this into software your industry already uses? For platforms.
Paste the vendor's email address or website. About 10 seconds.
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