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I am continually getting spam from fly-by-night "SEO experts" and "website optimizers" whose signature names rarely match the name in the email address. If you don't have any registered websites, you might not get them: they claim to have reviewed my website, whichever website they're targeting, and compliment me on it, then say it could be ranking higher in search engines and offer a chance to talk with them about their services.

Today has been only one email (so far), from Gregg, whose totally legit business Gmail has a different name and "111" in it, and which reads thusly:

Dear Owner,

Just I spent some time on your website Magatsu.net (Yes, I do random site analyses for a living.)

After spending some time, what I observed there are a several things you could use immediately that would help you to boost your Google rankings, social media, organic traffic along with conversion rate.

Not sure what your ingenuities are in this area, but is this something that’s on your sensor?

This is the site that our friend Gregg is talking about:( cut for screenshot )

Text of a Nigerian-type scam letter I received at my library email address today.

( Read more... )A 17-year-old librarian to boot!

Got a spam comment over on LJ, and before I report and ban it, I'm testing to see if it's one of those bots that parse your reply content and then post a snippet scraped from somewhere else that corresponds roughly to what you say. (I got into an argument with one of those bots once before realizing what it was and deleting the entire exchange in shame, which I now regret because I want to go back and reread it! And it may thereby have passed the Turing test.)

It's reasonably clever--it's got a recipe it scraped from somewhere on its LJ page, and sounds human, except that the second half of comment would have been more suited to a regular reader of my LJ and not a random drop-by, which is what they were pretending to be. Well, and the first half was fairly stupid, because I don't think many of us have been overly frustrated by choosing an exciting salad dressing. Okay, so it doesn't sound that human after all.

(The sales pitch is in the LJ profile, for a bankruptcy attorney.)

...the IRS is outsourcing a little much, hmm? I got a message* purporting to be from the IRS, with a return address going to thechoiceadvisors.com and the Errors-To header pointing to an address at gaycamcrush.com.



* That Gmail put in my spam folder right away, admittedly

Well, hellooooo amusing spam comment!

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You, yourself, are a ridiculously unattractive chicken.