We had posted and also seen many ads where in one company is interested to buy small hosting companies. How truth it is.

I can buy and server for around for $79 a month and book 100 domains and create 100 websites on that server and put that as company for sale.

I was also interested to buy one small company and that guy send me list and number of hosting clients with him. But dont know i was feeling not easy to go with him as i was not sure if thats possible to get fooled?

Sorry what's your question?

Are their fake hosting companies up for sale? Dunno maybe as you say its possible to forge a client base. Are people doing this? Who knows... Who should you trust? Again Who knows.