Do you remember way back in August 2009 when I made a post about SEO Cold Calling, aka Contact Form Spam? It was lambasting a company (that I didn’t name) who tried to sell me crappy SEO services by using my copywriting services contact form.
Amusingly enough, I got a spam comment on that post a few weeks ago. Because the spammer intended it to be a publicly viewed comment (or not? – you’ll see why) I feel no remorse about leaving the email address and such intact. I don’t want the actual links to work, of course. Emphasis is mine to point out the ridiculousness.
Hello,
Greetings for the day!
I am lerry, Marketing Manager and I am contacting you after visit your website.
To introduced,
We are a Leading New Delhi Based Online Marketing, Design & Web Development Company and one of the very few company which offer organic SEO services with a full range of supporting services such as one way themed text links, blog submissions, directory submissions, article writing and postings, etc.
We are a team of 60+ professionals which includes 20 full time SEO experts. We are proud to inform you that our team handled 1000+ SEO projects and obtained 50000+ manually built links in the past 1 year.
We will be glad to assist you with offering our services.
Do let me know if you have any question and I would be happy to send in more details.
Best Regards,
Name: Lerry
Post: Marketing manager
Reply me: lerry.marketingmanager@gmail.com
Note: Though this is not an automated email, we are sending these emails to all those people whom we find eligible of using our services. To unsubscribe from future mails (i.e., to ensure that we do not contact you again for this matter), please send a blank email at removeme@gmail.com
So Let’s Review…
Bad English. Why would I hire an SEO company that can’t even write a sentence in proper English? (Yet another reason to hire native speakers for your online endeavors. Outsource to India to save money, and you’ll often find that you get what you pay for.)
“One of the very few company [sic] which offer [sic] organic SEO services.” If this is the way you pitch me – with blog spam – I can hardly believe that your SEO services are going to be anything close to “organic.”
This wasn’t an email. The template was obviously meant to be used for email spam, but they didn’t bother changing the text when switching to to blog comment spam instead.
Fake remove instructions. I can guarantee that removeme@gmail.com does not belong to the company that spammed me.
With all of this, if anyone actually falls for this spam, I’m half-convinced they deserve to be parted with their money.
