The MG Dot Advertising scammers just added another web site — thewebsitetraffic.net — over the weekend. But kudos to Cloudflare.com for shutting it down within 24 hours. It'll probably turn up on a Chinese host within a few days...
Here's another sneaky thing they did: They used to set up DNS for www.mg-dot.cn (for example) but not mg-dot.cn (without the "www"). So antispammers like myself might give up after finding no IP address for just mg-dot.cn even though their web site is perfectly operational at www.mg-dot.cn — tricky, huh? Now I always try with and without the "www" when I tracetoute a web site belonging to these scumbags.
(Also, I try to avoid using the "www" when I list their domains on 800notes because the forum software automatically turns it into a link and I don't want to send them any traffic or tip them off by having 800notes.com show up as a referrer in their logs.)
My checker works either way. Also that site is currently offline:
Quote:website: mg-dot.cn
Domain Age: 1 Years, 153 Days
Website Speed: Very Fast
Website Value: $3513.92
Organisation: 上海宜宝网络科技有限公司
Owner: 上海宜宝网络科技有限公司
Email: [China] Related to 4 sites
Website Location :
Probable website origin :-
100%; [China] China
Notes:-
[Alert Result] Registered contact email address is a free one
[Alert Result] ** The website appears to be OFFLINE **
[Alert Result] This website is 1 Years old
[Alert Result] This website setup involves countries known to be high risk
[Alert Result] This website is likely to be operating from a high risk country
Most of their sites are offline now. Probably because they just got kicked off one host (at 211.147.14.168) and are moving their sites to another (the one at 219.239.223.37). But I expect many will never come back because their reputation is catching up with them. Look for them to register new domain names.
aaand as predicted — new domain name: www . seo-dot.com (211.147.14.168)
Web site says: MG-Dot Advertising. 516-926-1772, 18 Richmond St, Albany, NY. Same scammers.
Expect more domain names to follow.
And another: conversionseo.cn (219.239.223.155)
Web site reads: MG-Dot Advertising 001 (516) 926-1772, 18 Richmond St, Albany, New York, USA
The domain I posted about a few days ago, seo-dot.com, has also moved to this new IP address.