Scam. We get these all the time. It's also funny that they use gmail accounts. Any legit SEO company would use an email that utilizes their own domain name. Yahoo, hotmail, gmail, AOL, etc, all give away free email accounts because every time you send an email you then advertise for them. I've actually responded to a few of these bozos acting as if I was interested in learning more. The email always bounces back because the address I respond to doesn't exist. Which makes me wonder how doing this is beneficial at all. There's no link or anything that you could click on. Makes no sense.
Anyway, here's what I got from them today:
You have an info request. Go get it!
email = (ours)
subject = Info Request From Your Website!
description = You have an info request. Go get it!
Name = Ray
Company =
Address = NA
Address 2 =
City = Sandiego
State = Sandiego
zip = 12345
Phone = 240-207-4922
Email =
[email protected]
mail = 1
comments = Dear Head of Business Development at (Our Company).com,
Were you aware that you are paying every time your online marketing advertisement is
clicked? It hurts! I know, as many of our clients have shared this frustration when
I first talked to them about how to drive more quality prospects to their sites -
without having to constantly pay for every click.
I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting more
organic (FREE) search engine traffic for (Our Company).com
1. Your home page rank is 3, this can be improved further.
2. Open directory listing is not available.
3. Your site has 10 Yahoo back links, this can be improved further.
If you can stomach more bad news about what your site needs, and are curious to know
what our working together would involve, then I would be glad to provide you with
further detailed analysis in the form of a SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO) SITE
REPORT - FREE OF CHARGE. I would first need to know that you are serious about using
our services, as the report would involve several hours of our research.
To brief you about the company, we are ranked No#1 by topSEOs and team of over 500
SEO specialists in the USA and India. We would like to talk with you about how you
should be winning new business from the search engines, without paying advertisers
over and over again for it.
SEO is not instantaneous, it is not free, but it is the only sensible internet
marketing choice. Your return on investment (ROI) after 6 months of SEO will be at
least 3 times that of paid advertisements, and many times greater than our cost. In
fact, we guarantee that in the first month of our work you will see an improvement
in ranking, link popularity and traffic or we'll work for free until you do! Our
clients' consistently tell us that their customers find them because they are at the
top of Google. Being on the top left of Google (#1- #5 Organic positions) is the
best thing you can do for your company's website traffic and online reputation.
Ironically, It?s very likely that had you spent your last 6 months of online
marketing dollars on SEO instead of paid advertising that you would have 3 times or
greater the traffic today and not need the paid advertising at all.
Fortunately you can still start today and begin getting that traffic in just a few
weeks. We look forward to discussing our SEO plans with you.
Sounds interesting? Feel free to email us or alternatively you can provide your best
time and phone number to call you.
Best Regards,
Ray
240-207-4922
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PS1: This is onetime email and we won?t contact you if you don?t respond to this
email. You may also ask us for ?REMOVE?.
PS2: We found your site from online advertisements but did not click the Ad to visit.
PS3: We work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. So we will send more details on ?our
company profile?, ?client references?, ?case studies?, ?why you should choose us??,
?price list?, ?guarantee? etc. upon getting positive response from you.
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Form processed at Mon Oct 11 22:06:22 MDT 2010
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And yes, all those question marks were in the email. I still can't figure out how their spam is supposed to work.
Bottom line, mark it as spam or just delete it. Certainly don't call the number (maybe that's the scam?). And if you actually get one with links (we never do), DON'T click them!
Thanks for taking the time to post your experiences and let's all stay diligent in fighting these clowns!
Later!