My first SEO spam!
Got my first bit og SEO spamming today. It read:
You have received an enquiry from the MykeBlack.com website. The details of this enquiry are as follows:
| Name: | Joseph Swanson |
| Telephone: | 0000000000 |
| Email: | josephswanson123@gmail.com |
| Enquiry: |
Seo Services We Would like to get your website on first page of Google.
All of our processes use the most ethical "white hat" Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized. |
| IP Address: | 122.161.44.181 |
I must have hit the SERPs sweetspot to start drawing the desperate attentions of this spammy SEO charlatan. They use automated spamming tools to submit the same drivel to lots of contact forms on pages that they find on google. If they had actualyl looked at the website they would realise that I already do SEO. This is not the only SEO spam that I got over the weekend, i got a couple of others too, and many of our clients get lots of SEO spam from companies like these on a depressingly regular basis - many of them from Indian IP addresses like the one above.
What you should do with this type of email is to never reply, never asknowledge that you received it, and never ever give these scammers any money. In fact, if you can, contact their ISP (you should log their IP address) and report them for spamming you with unsolicited email messages. Maybe then they would stop wasting our time.