Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 10:03 am
Here is a new technique, the spammers are now matching up their gmail address with their name. Google still sees it as spam, and these are always un-solicited.
This message may not have been sent by: sylviaabernathy70@gmail.com Learn more Report phishing
EMA: sylviaabernathy70@gmail.com
FAX: 0120120120
Phn:
Nam: Sylvia Abernathy
Ad1:
Ad2:
Cty: Seattle
Sta: Washington
Zip: 98101
Phn:
Cmt: We found your weblisting on one of the back pages of Google. Wouldn’t you rather be up front? Our experts in Search Engine Optimization can help you become more visible and more productive. A quick email will get you details.
Thursday 10 November 2011 at 11:08 am
No, it's not a good idea to think of these as anything as a bad investment. Upstanding companies use their domain for e-mail addresses, but what I really want to discuss here is that gmail issues a warning on many SEO solicitations that 'this message may not have been sent by' ... because the e-mail spammers may not be sending e-mails through gmail. Google's gmail product offers a rich and capable e-mail transmission platform, but if a spammer attempts to pound out large numbers of spam e-mails with the google servers, google cuts our their account. So the spammers, using a gmail address, actually send large volumes of e-mail through their own inexpensive servers. When google detects e-mails that have a different sending address than their e-mail server domain, they issue the warning.
Generally, unless you signed up for a mailing list, anything you receive to your e-mail account is much like being stopped on the street for spare change, except that they ultimately will be asking for more than just some spare change, they will ask for $ 250 to 1000, at which point they have your credit card number and may be able to make more charges.
Much like the days of having unlisted phone numbers, most e-mails are going to be spammed. Spam filters block large numbers of e-mails of this sort. But, I suspect, in this scheme, the guy whose name appears below was sold a get rich quick scheme by an off shore e-mail spammer. The more e-mails they can send out, and in this case, web forms they complete, they are promised, the more more commission they earn. But, in my opinion, this wouldn't be a good way to hire a lawyer, accountant or engineer.
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Phn:
Nam: Darian Lewis
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Cty: Charleroi
Sta: Pennsylvania
Zip: 15022
Phn:
Cmt: We can increase rankings of your website in search engines. Please reply back for more details.
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Phn:
Nam: Jaime Jack
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Cty: Canton
Sta: North Carolina
Zip: 28716
Phn:
Cmt: We noticed that you are not at the top of the search engines for a number of your key terms. We have helped companies similar to yours to achieve top organic rankings. Please reply to this message and we will prepare a special proposal for you, to show you how we can achieve similar results for you.
Tuesday 01 November 2011 at 08:44 am
Since a ton of phony companies exist in local listings, with only a phone number, where the address is probably made up, we find this article about the same thing happening in the floral industry - fake local listings- this is tough on small business owners who rent a store and run a reputable flower shop only to be constantly low-balled by these fly by night order gathering agencies, who can deliver poor quality and the consumer will find they are some out of town outfit just looking to make a buck. Support your local flower shop and make sure you deal with a real person and a real store, that the proper sales taxes are collected supporting your schools fire and police, and that the money does not go off to some out of state or even off shore lead selling service where you have no say if you get less than you paid for.
Google, in their forum provides information on reporting Map spam and seems to do a better job of policing fake addresses and these lower tier and quality often un-licensed providers.
