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"We are interested to increase traffic to your website"

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Do you guys get this kind of spam on your website(s)? I seem to get them weekly. I always respond but they ignore me? Why would someone spam if they don't reply to the responses?
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I usually respond something like this:

if I want seo services or traffic, I google for these terms myself, and pick a company that appears on the first page. Cause if they can't get their own site popular, why I trust mine with them?
So just make sure you eat your own dogfood, and if you're good I'll find you soon :)
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maybe they dont need to reply to get paid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYinbi82gf8
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daedalus__ wrote:maybe they dont need to reply to get paid?
What value is there in contacting people if you don't try to take their $? I wasnt going to pay them, I was just interested in their sales pitch and it bewilders me they can have no followup.
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Well, I'm interested in getting some landscaping done in my front yard. So I go to the web and look for landscapers in San Diego and find lots of them. I go to the "contact us" page of their sites and click on the "email us" button and send emails, and nine out of ten do not respond to the emails.

Same question: why do they put an "email us" button on their website if they are not going to respond to emails?
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But actively filling out my contact form takes up their time and/or money, having an email button on their site to an unmonitored mail box doesnt cost them money. but yeah oh well, i guess there is no definitive answer
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But actively filling out my contact form takes up their time and/or money
Not if they are doing by bot.
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I guess, but I dont get any other spam passing that form, just weird I guess
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I get these occasionally, but not as often as you apparently do. I think the majority of these are (1) bots, (2) spam, and (3) not serious business activities. As you know, the whole methodology of spam is to get 0.000000001 % of the recipients to take some particular action. Since it costs them nothing to send to the remaining 99.999999999 % also, they don't CARE that they get nothing from it, nor that it's outrageously wasteful in terms of net resources (last I read, 80% of Internet traffic is spam, another 18% is video/audio downloading, and the other 2% is what the Internet was designed for), nor that it's a colossal nuisance to the entire world. As long as they reach a couple of idiots in the entire world who will send them some money, nothing else matters.

In the situation you described, the sender might (a) be waiting for someone with no virus protection to visit his infected web site, (b) be hoping to collect some email addresses (if it asks you to reply by email), (c) have had some scam going, but now he's interested in something else (maybe a new supply of pot just arrived) and he just hasn't taken the trouble to deactivate his bots.

There are so many stupid scams going on all the time, it's not worth wasting your time trying to figure them out. Just stay away from them.

BillH: be happy that you live in sunny San Diego where landscaping is worth the effort! :D
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califdon wrote:the other 2% is what the Internet was designed for
LOL. Kind of a good thing ( see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHpwcZi ... re=channel )
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Thanks for that link, Josh. I had never seen that interview. I was a grad student at MIT during precisely those years (1959-61), although I was in the Sloan School of Management and never knew at the time that all that was going on, a few buildings away. I later became aware of Arpanet and used my MIT account to log on (with my Apple ][ computer and a 300-baud modem), and connect to a couple of the nodes, but I didn't know what I was doing, so it was just the thrill of contacting those big computers. This was before there was an Internet! Much later, I taught Internet classes for several years and learned the history of Kleinrock and the rest of those guys. Too bad I didn't know them in those days! I might have made a fortune!
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Do you guys get this kind of spam on your website(s)? I seem to get them weekly. I always respond but they ignore me? Why would someone spam if they don't reply to the responses?
LOL thats hilarious...I could never be bothered...GMail rarely sends those messages through to my inbox so maybe my SPAM folder is full of them? :P
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PCSpectra wrote:
Do you guys get this kind of spam on your website(s)? I seem to get them weekly. I always respond but they ignore me? Why would someone spam if they don't reply to the responses?
LOL thats hilarious...I could never be bothered...GMail rarely sends those messages through to my inbox so maybe my SPAM folder is full of them? :P
I use gmail too, maybe it is because my contact form was really easy for them to post to with CURL or something
califdon wrote:Thanks for that link, Josh. I had never seen that interview. I was a grad student at MIT during precisely those years (1959-61), although I was in the Sloan School of Management and never knew at the time that all that was going on, a few buildings away. I later became aware of Arpanet and used my MIT account to log on (with my Apple ][ computer and a 300-baud modem), and connect to a couple of the nodes, but I didn't know what I was doing, so it was just the thrill of contacting those big computers. This was before there was an Internet! Much later, I taught Internet classes for several years and learned the history of Kleinrock and the rest of those guys. Too bad I didn't know them in those days! I might have made a fortune!
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