Weird junk email from/about these forums :S

James J · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:57

Just got a junk email with the subject line "forums.overclockers.co.uk - Contact needed"

This was the content, with links removed due to probable virus' lol:

I am Dr. Martin Vermont and I work for Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc. in Washington DC ( Tel: 1-202-558-2504) - I would like to speak with the person in charge of your international clientele. Who is my contact? Who should I speak to??

In fact, after visiting forums.overclockers.co.uk , I have noticed that your website cannot be found on foreign search engines (I tested it on Hispanic search engines, German search engines, Asian search engines, etc.) Our company is specialized in multilingual search engine promotions in 28 languages . From the Japanese Google to the German Yahoo, from the AOL in Spanish to the MSN in Chinese, we can show you how to develop a true international online presence by promoting your website on foreign search engines.

Let us show you how to develop a presence on the multilingual web without having to translate your website: It is not necessary to translate your website in order to submit to foreign search engines, however, you need to have at least 1 page in Japanese optimized with Japanese keywords and meta tags in order to submit to Japanese search engines, at least 1 page in Spanish optimized with Spanish keywords in order to submit to Hispanic search engines and so on...

I strongly suggest that you watch our online presentation which explains clearly how to get top rankings on foreign search engines with only 1 entry page per language (click on the following link or copy-paste it into your web browser): <link removed>

From the Japanese Google to the German Yahoo, from the AOL in Spanish to the MSN in Chinese, get users to find your website when searching with YOUR KEYWORDS in their Native language.

Please call me at +1 (202) 558-2504 or email me and let's work on giving your website the true international exposure which it deserves to have with foreign native online users!!

Regards,

Martin Vermont, Ph.D.
<email removed>

Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc.
1250 Connecticut Ave N.W. Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036 USA
TEL: +1 (202) 558-2504 - FAX: 1 (202)-318-2453 <link removed> Multilingual Search Engine Promotion Services since 1999.

Anyone else got this? Must used my profile to get my email address or via the trust system :S

iviv · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:02

Or the fact you have your email right there in your sig to be harvested

JayMax · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:03

If so I think the mods can see who has accessed your Trust. It's happened before to successfully track down miscreants emailing people links for the Dons Room leaks etc

d_brennen · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:03

Follow it up and post the hillarity here

You are Lord James of Hull, heir to many millions from your Nigeria uncle (twice removed) afterall

James J · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:03

iviv said:
Or the fact you have your email right there in your sig to be harvested

Ha true, yet I didn't think some con artist would go through a forum like this just to send me an email with that sort of rubbish!

Bennie-Mac · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:04

Never had anything forum related sent apart from official ocuk stuff. Perhaps you have a keylogger or spyware?

arknor · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:04

reads like a bot a very clever one if it was a perosn they would realise ocuk only needs to show up on uk search engines

James J · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:05

Bennie-Mac said:
Never had anything forum related sent apart from official ocuk stuff. Perhaps you have a keylogger or spyware?

Did 2 full scans before posting and neither brought up anything so not sure. I'm kinda tempted to go along with the idea of taking the **** a bit though and say I cannot hand over the list of clientelle unless I receive a truck load of hovis and a DSLR to take a photo of it with for invoicing purposes...

demonix · 7 Aug 2011 at 14:38

I just did a quick google of that company and it seems that they are a mass spammer (although some have had that e-mail with a different name) although leaving e-mail addresses where anybody can get them is just an open invitation to getting spammed to hell.

Pawnless Endgame · 7 Aug 2011 at 14:50

This isn't the first time it happened. I had a rogue OcUK-related email about a year ago. I checked the forums here and it turned out that a lot of us had the same email.

whitecrook · 7 Aug 2011 at 16:14

obviously the bot/script/spam/troll/harvester scrapes for email addresses, and then emails them with a spam message containing the domain of the page from where the email address was harvested.

MagusUK · 7 Aug 2011 at 17:38

I got that exact same email (minus the overclockers bit) in my work email plus a follow up too. I ignored both & not heard back.

Cleeecooo · 7 Aug 2011 at 17:41

James J said:
Did 2 full scans before posting and neither brought up anything so not sure. I'm kinda tempted to go along with the idea of taking the **** a bit though and say I cannot hand over the list of clientelle unless I receive a truck load of hovis and a DSLR to take a photo of it with for invoicing purposes...

please do this