SEO spammers reaching my sites
Lately, I have been getting these weird SEO spammers asking me to contact them if I wish to increase traffic to my site(s). These e-mails sure look fishy, here is one of them that I received today.
Felicia Sams wrote:
We are interested to increase traffic to your website, please get back to us in
order to discuss the possibility in further detail.Website:
IP: 122.163.119.126
The e-mail came from seo.sales.traffic@gmail.com. Certainly does not seem to come from a reputable SEO company. So I did a search for this Gmail address and I found out that the problem was not new.
According to the site that I visited, several indicators that this e-mail is spam are:
- The communication will normally come completely unsolicted via email or your website form
- The sender usually uses free non-professional email address (e.g. @gmail.com)
- They do not have their own website
- No telephone number (or not a UK number)
- No company name
I did one step further and made an IP lookup trace for the IP I got from that e-mail. Here was the result:
So do not reply to these types of e-mails. They want you to reply, because then they will add your e-mail to their harvest list and later spam you will all sorts of offers.
alantanblog says:
February 27th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I got this SPAM mail asking to increase traffic almost everyday!
Kenji says:
February 27th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I did receive this kind of email regularly. It is funny that they use free mail services like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo as their email address. How PRO can they be?
seo freelancer says:
April 10th, 2010 at 3:50 am
I think this is blunt spamming. Usually, if it’s a free webmail then I don’t take them seriously right away. Now if it’s coming from a real domain name email address, then I might consider checking the website. Why are these kinds of spammers increasing nowadays?
Pino says:
April 17th, 2010 at 6:02 am
I receive this kind of email too. Fortunatly my email server put this rubbish directly in my spam box otherwise it was a problem.
best seo says:
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:23 am
look, we are working in the industry and when we use to assign some seo tasks to teams from india, pakistan etc, they are cheap and work fast. the problem is that there is any legal issue, they cannot be reached, therefore you need a lot of precustions before considering such an option. another big issue is that you may assign them a link and some achor texts and they might screw the things up, exposing your site to google penalties. so, seo it’s a lot more than just having backlinks