Blog owners would recognize this few variation of spam mails coming from India. Several simple ways to do a quick acid test if the emails you receive are for real.
Contact Me Your Name Carlos Carney gates.charles1@gmail.com Website Message We offer quality Search Engine Optimization / SEO Services and Internet Marketing Solutions. Our dedicated team of SEO Professionals ensures Top 10 search engine rankings. Our SEO Processes are designed in view of the SEO guidelines, and white hat SEO techniques are strictly followed to ensure that our clients from world over get the best SEO services. Please reply to this email so we can send you more details.
Your Name Paula Tucker patricknortoni25@gmail.com Website Message We are a leading India based SEO company providing the best search engine optimization services. We act as your business partner and helps you reach your business goals. We promote websites no matter who you are – a huge company with thousands of employees, a small business or a professional who offers professional / consulting services. Let us know if you are interested and we will get back to you with more details.
1. Look at their email address, they are non-domain base email. Free email address are used so they can easily drop and create new ones when an email has been classified as spam.
2. Name mismatch between the email address and the name submitted. They might have used a robot software to submit the form too.
3. If you use contact forms for your blog, look for those what logs IP address. For the 2 sample cases below the IP are 122.163.9.246 and 122.163.193.184
4. You can highlight the email address and pull out google search engine to run a check with quotes–>e.g. “gates.charles1@gmail.com” I’m certain you will find them being listed in some Hall of Shame some where.
5. You can also google and search for IP lookup and locate a list of free sites that offers IP checking and lookup which country that IP range is from. From what I’ve had observed, they are usually from India. A example of IP check site http://www.ipchecking.com/
You can observed this particular IP is already listed on a block list. Refer to the highlighted text.
| General information on 122.163.9.246: |
IPv4 address: 122.163.9.246 IPv6 address: ::ffff:7aa3:9f6 Host name: ABTS-North-Dynamic-246.9.163.122.airtelbroadband.in Reverse DNS: ABTS-North-Dynamic-246.9.163.122.airtelbroadband.in Country: INDIA |
| RBL (Real-Time Blocking List) lookup on 122.163.9.246: |
SPAMCOP: Not Found
SBL: Not Found
XBL: Not Found
CBL: Not Found
NJABL: Not Found
SORBS: Listed in Spam and Open-Relay Blocking System (dnsbl.sorbs.net)
SURBL: Not Found
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| Whois information on 122.163.9.246: |
inetnum: 122.163.0.0 - 122.163.255.255 netname: ABTS-DSl-DEL descr: ABTS DELHI, descr: Broadband and Telephone Service 224,Okhla Phase III, descr: New Delhi descr: Delhi descr: India descr: Contact Person: Anil Jhamb descr: Email: dsl.noc@airtel.in descr: Phone:011-41612222 descr: Date of allocation:15-JAN-07 country: IN admin-c: DEL2-AP tech-c: DEL2-AP mnt-by: MAINT-IN-TELEMEDIA status: ALLOCATED NON-PORTABLE changed: dsl.noc@airtel.in 20090206 source: APNIC |
City: New Delhi
For this case, they obviously disregard the certification listed at the right-hand side of my blog that I know SEO??? Gah! Why would I partner with a spammer?
