The Search Doctors - SEO Email Spammer

[ihelpyou]

I've received emails from the same company a few times under different addresses, etc. I'm sure they have been outed before in here. I'm sick of these people:
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I can put your site at the top of a search engines listings.This is no joke and I can show proven results
from all our past clients. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a reply with the web
addresses you want to promote and the best way to contact you with some options.

Thanks in advance,

Angela Brobst

The Search Doctors
27068 LaPaz Rd.
Aliso Viejo, Ca 92656
www.seo-placement-services.com

If you've received this email in error, please contact error@thesearchdoctors.com

People like this should be "jailed". It's pure email spam. They have no clue as to who they send email to and don't know the domain as well. Visit the url they list in the email and scroll to the bottom of it to find a "remove link" there. It's clearly a doorway domain set up to receive visitors from SEO Spam Email.

Why can't these people be put in jail??

[WebSavvy]

I hear that the jails are now allowing inmates some Internet time if they've been on their very best behavior.

How do you know that this spam isn't being sent by an inmate with access to the Internet? :p

[ihelpyou]

lol Could be. If that's the case, then they need to be disallowed from that access. :)

[Connie]

Just another Dumb SEO Firm. For some reason I don't get much of that anymore. Most of the spam I receive is related to health, or mortgages.

[SEFL]

You gonna use that link in the bottom right corner of their home page, Doug? ;)

Obviously these guys are just brute-force spamming. They're not looking at all. They're just spamming, jamming and scamming hoping to hit a target or 10.

[ihelpyou]

Nope. :) As that would verify my email address they can sell to every other email spammer.

We have to find a way to stop the crap in our industry. These people are scamming and spamming thousands a day in the hopes of just "one" naive or new website owner who orders. They are the scum of the earth, and are the scammiest in the industry.

[WebSavvy]

hmmm ... doing about 5 mins research, I found some pretty interesting stuff ...

Michigan, Utah Impose Dreaded E-Mail Tax (http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3522911)


States mull 'Do not spam' lists (http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=24711)
Doug, you might find this interesting:

Lawmakers in South Carolina and New York are considering going beyond Washington's model by starting a statewide registry of computer users who don't want any kind of unsolicited e-mail. New York's bill would require the state to create a registry of citizens who don't want spam, while South Carolina's (http://www.scstatehouse.net/cgi-bin/query2003.exe?first=DOC&querytext=H.%203518&category=Legislation&session=116&conid=1301775&result_pos=0&keyval=1163518&printornot=Y) would require e-mail service providers to create a similar database.



Anti-spam crusaders slapped with $11.7m judgement (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/15/spamhaus_lawsuit_flap/)
Spamhaus unfazed by 'unenforceable' ruling
By John Leyden
Published Friday 15th September 2006 12:20 GMT


A US court has ordered anti-spam organisation Spamhaus to pay $11.7m in damages for "illegally" listing email marketing firm e360insight as an affiliate of a known spammer, an entry that meant users of Spamhaus's mail filtering advisory system would not have received email from e360insight. The Illinois court also imposed an injunction on Spamhaus against interfering with e360insight's email marketing activities without sufficient evidence in future.

[SEFL]

That's not going to fly, as much as we'd all like it to.

The problem with tougher laws on spam is that they don't have a broad enough scope to truly be effective. I'm in Canada, and even with government cooperation it would be difficult and costly to prosecute me as a spam offender should I decide to go sending Doug 1,000,000 emails concerning the size of his manhood.

And I'm in a country that would cooperate with the US government on an issue such as this. Imagine if the spam came from a country that is a political enemy of the States, such as Cuba, Iraq, or perhaps even France. Or let's say they came from a country such as Sweden that has an Internet black sheep presence (for those who don't know, the Astalavista.com engine, among many other sites and networks, originated in Sweden way back in the day.)

This is something that needs to go global, with cooperation from all countries and swift, brutal justice, if it is to have any effect at all.

Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree
Round up all of them bad boys, hang 'em high in the street
For all the people to see!

[WebSavvy]

I thought the last link was interesting though because it's the first time I've ever heard of an alleged email spammer being awarded damages from being identified as an alleged email spammer.

Isn't e360Insight part of the 360 network? I've had malware on my computer from 360 Network before. It was REALLY bad stuff and very difficult to remove.