SEO Company Spamming Their Way Up

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by sultanofseo, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. #1
    Just got a spam in my PMB which was sent to 5 members all having username starting with S. Actually all had SUL common in their username which means that spam was sent to all DP members in the memberlist using bot. Very scary!

    What sux is that the spam was sent to promote a brand new seo company site offering various different services. An seo company that utilizes spamming method of marketing their "own" seo site, what kind of service they have to offer their clients?

    More spam maybe?

    ** i'm not including the message or the site URL here on the thread but i think by now everyone got the spam.

     
    sultanofseo, Nov 26, 2008 IP
  2. scottwood1986

    scottwood1986 Active Member

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    #2
    I get them all the time, they usually get banned pretty quick lol
     
    scottwood1986, Nov 26, 2008 IP
  3. jitendraag

    jitendraag Notable Member

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    #3
    This isn't the first time an 'SEO' company has done this on DP. DPdollar managed to send me spam PM twice :) I think they consider spamming webmaster forum a 'creative idea' !!
     
    jitendraag, Nov 26, 2008 IP
  4. artlan

    artlan Member

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    #4
    They should be banned if they haven't been so already.
     
    artlan, Nov 26, 2008 IP
  5. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    #5
    the account in question is banned already but that would not stop the spammers as the spam is generated by bots. i noticed that DP requires a captcha now for thread posting which might do some good
     
    sultanofseo, Nov 27, 2008 IP
  6. vansterdam

    vansterdam Notable Member

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    It's interesting that you know the same message was sent to 5 other users starting with s. How do you know that? Sounds like someone might have multiple accounts against the DP rules.
     
    vansterdam, Nov 27, 2008 IP
  7. xander1083

    xander1083 Banned

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    #7
    i always get those PM all the time and i am really irritated about it.
     
    xander1083, Nov 27, 2008 IP
  8. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #8
    Forward that to any mod, they will take care of that.
     
    Abhik, Nov 27, 2008 IP
  9. letsnurture

    letsnurture Peon

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    I think captcha is good solution for now...
     
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  10. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    #10
    look at the original post and see whats in the quote. it shows the recipients. you can copy a message to 5 members at a time and the members the message is sent to will see whom it was sent to unless you do bcc


    read post#5 where i said the account is already banned
     
    sultanofseo, Nov 28, 2008 IP