#275852 by TerranceBoyce
Sun Nov 22, 2015 8:39 am
http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/columnists/return-of-the-evil-scammer-1-7068469?
22 November 2015
The following the line in one of the emails from the scammer summed it up nicely.
“As requested please find below the payment details for your renewal of your google listings for the coming 12 Months.”
Now that may sound fairly innocuous to you, but it rang alarm bells for me. For example, there is no such thing as renewing your listings on Google. Google (and any other search engine worth its salt) automatically crawl and list web pages without you spending a penny. They wouldn’t be very good at being search engines if they didn’t. The only times when they don’t list pages is if you have specifically told them not to, or your site has broken so many rules that it has been de-indexed.
Another reason for concern is that the scammer is asking for money up front, without any proof of success or that any work had been done. Additionally, the email in question came from a generic domain (like gmail.com, outlook.com, mail.com, etc) and when questioned I was told the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) specialist didn’t have their own website. Again a major alarm bell echoed in my head.
Unfortunately for my client, the scammer took the money and ran. They fell victim for one simple reason. Fear.
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