WTF?? – GoDaddy.com, LLC has sent you $0.01 USD.

I might be a GoDaddy affiliate, but this is a still a really weird email to receive.

Hello, Chris Bailey

GoDaddy.com, LLC has sent you $0.01 USD

NOTE FROM GoDaddy.com, LLC:

Payment for $0.01 to vendor 1897109 from Go Daddy. PaymentID = 7337392.

Transaction Details

Transaction ID: 8VA168715D977163F February 15, 2018

Money received $0.01 USD

Please note it may take a little while for this payment to appear in the Activity section of your account.

That message just came from PayPal this morning.

I thought it might be a phishing attempt, so I checked my PayPal account(going there from my bookmarks, not from the links in the email) and sure enough, there was a whopping penny sent to me from GoDaddy.

I’m headed out the door shortly so I’ll have to check into this a little further later today and update this post, but it’s just so weird.

I just wanted to see if anyone received this windfall as well, lol.

Update 4/12/18:

🙂 I never did get around to checking into that awesome penny payment, but this morning I just received a nickel, woohoo. 😀

Same standard message:

Hello, Chris Bailey

GoDaddy.com, LLC has sent you $0.05 USD

NOTE FROM GoDaddy.com, LLC:

Payment for $0.05 to vendor 1897109 from Go Daddy. PaymentID = 7437447.

Transaction Details

Transaction ID: 10X198033D855413X April 12, 2018

Money received $0.05 USD

Please note it may take a little while for this payment to appear in the Activity section of your account.

I figured I might as well look into it a little further. Here are some details from my PayPal account:

Payment received from GoDaddy.com, LLC
April 12, 2018 at 6:20:46 AM EDTTransaction ID: 10X198033D855413X
Payment Status: COMPLETED
Gross amount
$0.05 USD
We have no postal address on file
Payment details
Gross Amount$0.05 USD
PayPal Fee$0.00 USD
Net Amount$0.05 USD
Paid by
GoDaddy.com, LLC
The sender of this payment is Verified
http://www.godaddy.com
godaddyap@godaddy.com
480-505-8855

I couldn’t really find an explanation that made sense to my situation and I don’t feel like bothering with GoDaddy support, so it’s still somewhat of a mystery to me.

However, here are a couple threads from 2014 that could explain any mystery payments someone else has received from GoDaddy: Godaddy sent me $19.90. What does it mean? and Mysterious refunds from GoDaddy explained

Good luck.