Dear Janice Jacobsen,
Thank you for contacting… wait a minute… your email address looks awfully familiar. Where have I seen that before…
I know! It’s the same damn email address that a previous spammer, named Jim Guthrie, used on my blog just 2 months ago. Go ahead everyone, compare the two…
Wow! Jim, or is it Janice now?, either way you are still a dirty spammer that continues to try and peddle your “SEO services” through comment and form spamming. Oh yes, I (again) checked to see if I could find out more about you and again you left a comment and contact trail all across the Internet.
Tadah –
Your continued efforts are lack luster, at best. As you continue to spam legitimate SEO sites (which is just stupid) your shady business practices will continue to become more apparent to a wider audience.
My previous post to you, Jim or Janice, has already helped to inform one small business owner of your sticky web of deceit and hopefully this post will continue to raise awareness.
Your continued usage of comment and contact form spam is just as confusing as your gender!
Give it a rest already, stop dragging our industry through the mud and drawing negative sentiment from business owners that would benefit from SEO but are now left with a poor perception of a legitimate marketing tactic. You continue to push buttons and by doing so continue to draw unwanted attention to the parent organization that you are linked with [full details here].
Just cut the bullshit.
GFY,
Matthew Diehl
P.S. I await (on pins and needles) your gender decision, pre-op and post-op photos would be great too!
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It’s true, a truly knowlegeable SEO should have tons of business from natural search traffic alone, no? Spamming? lol
Thanks for this post, it’s great to be able to find info that helps separate out who’s legit and who’s not.
@Jason – Glad I could help! That is exactly what I was hoping would come out of this post and the previous one. These individuals continue to give SEO a bad name by running shady acquisition and business practices. I doubt they will ever stop so the best that us legitimate types can do is educate.
Wow! Thanks for this post, Matt. Just got same mail from same source requesting to work up my site.
Hi Matthew
It may be a year since you last addresss this twonk but it/he/she/undecided continues the path of spamming. Checking it/him/her/undecided out online drew me to your site with its blog, warning against these people. Thank you. I wish I had the money to pay you to do work for me. One day, one day.
Kind regards
Adrienne
I just rec’d the same spammy email, googled the name and the word “rankings” and found your blog post. Thank you for the heads up – and thumbs down! – on this “perp.”
Good work!
@Laurette – You’re Welcome! Just calling it like I see it and trying to prevent any more businesses from being burnt by false SEOs.
I got this same message and it seemed way too over-the-top to be real. Glad I checked it out. Ran it through SpamCop and reported it to the authorities. Hopefully, if more people jump on these Bandwidth Thieves, we’ll have less crap to worry about in our inboxes.
@Michael Good move for taking the further steps with reporting them to SpamCop. Hopefully, someday we won’t have to deal with these folks spreading their garbage about in the search engine marketing industry.
From: Janice Jacobsen
Subject: Thought regarding your website
Message Body:
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
–
This mail is sent via contact form on Abod http://abods.com
———–
get a real job Janice Jacobsen
Janet, using Jims email address, sent me the same message today. Surely she/he must be bored copying & pasting all day long rather than working! Great to find your post about J’s antics.
I got the Janice email and another: Laura Nowacki
Similar message in body. I searched “Janice Jacobsen SEO” (no quotes), your blog is #1.
I do mostly local SEO for sites I build. I would hate it if one of my customers got taken on a Janice or Laura or Jim ride.
I’d like to point our another thing SEO spammers do. Optimize for useless keywords. They are easy to optimize for but useless because no one is using them in searches. Here is an example:
I have a site that is #1 on Google for the term “oil field excavation” (no quotes). I discovered this quite by accident but was pretty pleased with myself when I did. I rushed to the Google Ad Words tool to see how many searches there were for that term…less than ten, Globally! (<10)
Thank you very much for letting us know this. We have just received also this email.
It does make you wonder though what would happen if you mail them back, not that I ever would. I was inclined to do so just to waste their time.
@Alan People have definitely responded back. That is how we know these emails lead back to certain unethical companies with our industry because not only have they sold the SEO service to unsuspecting business owners, they have screwed over those business owners. Such a shame.
I don’t know what would happen if you responded to their email ad. I would suspect they would try to sell you SEO services. Such as site evaluation and on site optimization, keyword research.
Their integrity is in question because the source of introduction is spam. You have to ask yourself, “how reliable can they be?”
SEO begins with keyword research. If you get that right you have a fighting chance. Then using the keywords properly on site, then inbound links off site.
Of course quality content and a reasonable amount of it. Last but not least, interaction and content updates and addition. Like us leaving comments on this blog. We are SEOing this page by adding to the content. The circle is unbroken because Matthew began with a cleaver idea and good content. The content served us and we respond with interaction.
@Tom Thanks for your continued commentary on the post. Your interactions continue to help this post rank highly and drive continued visits from others being emailed by these shiisters. Additionally, the point about their introduction being through either email or comment spam is very valid. 100% of the time these solicitations cannot be trusted!
I just received an offer from Janice Jacobson, googled her name & your post is the first result. Hope this post saved many potential victims.
The mail content matches the text shown word by word. Only her email ID is different. I never respond to site promo offers, for the first time I’ve checked on the net how good/bad are they. Thanks for posting your thoughts.
These are the same spammers that take credit card numbers if you use their services. They are usually from foreign countries and sell your credit card number to thieves that buy up things and mess your credit up
Thanks Janice Jacobsen or Jim Jacobsen or Natahili Gahndi or whoever you are.
Not sure if this helps but I just got this from my site.
Office Use Only:
From: Janice Jacobsen
Email: jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Login Name: Not logged in
Login Email: Not logged in
Telephone: Not logged in
IP Address: 122.163.56.150 – 122.163.56.150
Host Address: ABTS-North-Dynamic-150.56.163.122.airtelbroadband.in
Date and Time: Wed Sep 15 2010 6:19:37 PDT
Just got a comment from Janice Jacobsen on one of my clients sites. I Googled her name to see if she was professional (didn’t think so for a second due to lacking english and marketing skills) and I came to this site.
Thanks for the heads up. I wonder how low the response rate is from their comments?
Thanks,
Kevin
Add mine to the chorus of thanks, bud…. Well done, my friend…. You kept me from stepping in it….
Kudos,
Jerry
I just received that same spam message yesterday from Janice Jacobsen. The funny part is that is the name of my trainer at my new job. I informed her of it and she said she has never heard of anything like it.
P.S. This time, the e-mail was used.
-Drew
Janice/Jim is still sending them out and still getting reported for SPAM
I just got the same email. I love when they promise me top listings. Ive been doing this 12 years and even if you get to the top… someone will knock you down a peg or too as soon as you take a vacation. While Im sleeping here in Las Vegas, some little fricken genious is making 10,000 doorway pages in europe or asia. I used to make $3000 a day in the adult industry until altavista took a nose dive. Now I struggle everyday to make money from non adult traffic. You can do everything right and a search engine can change their algorithm.
Much success to everyone.
I was wondering…. Did Al Gore invent “ALGorithm” Who knows
Dave
Just got spam for Janice today so it looks like he/she/it is still out there. Crazy how Google can’t stop this nonsense. I like the part where it says the clients are begging for more. If they are begging for more, why is “it” looking for work.
THank you Matthew for publicising what a scam this Jim /Janice invite is all about . I received the invite yesterday and found the email address rather strange for a business and couldnt find anyone of that name and skill set in LinkedIn.
Not a problem at all Adam, just glad you found it useful and helped you steer clear of whomever is behind these apparently never ending spam program.
Also, checked out the Oxford Botanica site and the gardens there are beautiful. To bad I live on the wrong side of the Atlantic to stop by.
Hi too have been contacted by the infamous Janice/Jim and did the same some of your other commentators – googled the name and came across this useful blog – thanks Matthew.
I agree that SEO is an important marketing tool and that spammers like Janice/Jim muddy the profession as well as rip off unsupecting people. If Janice/Jim were a professional they would have their own website promoting their professional services, have a healthy google listing and not be hiding in an internet corner somewhere sending out spam emails.
Me too
I’ve been getting those emails for months now through another dot com I own. I actually responded to them tonight for the first time. I told them no..in a polite way. I then Googled the names both Jim and found no one, then Janice and got led here. I’ve also, since I publish my number on my sites have gotten calls from India and other countries asking to do SEO work and site design for a low price… Tell them what you want done, give them your admin password, they do the work, then you go back and change your admin file name and password. Do you think these are legitimite services??? By giving them access could they “plant” stuff within my site that could capture my customers info ( we do not store credit card info within our admin site, only last4 digits, cc type… But they could gain addresses, email and who knows what else!
@Dale – Thanks for stopping by and sharing your story.
Do not trust anyone else with your Admin credentials beside yourself! As you mentioned they can easily take advantage of customer data or even plant malicious code, link farms or hidden content that may go unnoticed by you but will results in getting your site removed from the search engine indexes.
As I have told a number of business owners, get references for the companies that you are considering outsourcing to. Make sure these are references that can be trusted as well, spammers are tricksters and can easily create fraudulent references too. If anything seems unusual, don’t trust the fate of your business to someone who is the slightest bit shady or promises the world on a platter.
Thanks for your post!
I’ve got the exact same email from this spammer. I get to here by googling its email address, “jimguthriess@gmail.com”
The following is the original email header:
Received: by 10.229.39.82 with SMTP id f18cs85851qce;
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.150.92.4 with SMTP id p4mr4968717ybb.4.1283411535004;
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:12:15 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: from smh01.opentransfer.com (smh01.opentransfer.com [71.18.216.112])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e10si426753ibg.3.2010.09.02.00.12.14;
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:12:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 71.18.216.112 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of jimguthriess@gmail.com) client-ip=71.18.216.112;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 71.18.216.112 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of jimguthriess@gmail.com) smtp.mail=jimguthriess@gmail.com
Received: by smh01.opentransfer.com (Postfix, from userid 8)
id 6EB407EA543; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 03:12:13 -0400 (EDT)
This is great! I just got contact by ‘janice’ and was going to repsond. It was then, as I usually do, I googled her (he-she) and found your blog. Thanks for the heads up:)
Matthew-
Thank you for this post! This is the scond time I have received an inquiry from this bozo. Very much appreciate your efforts. Happy Holidays.
Nice post sir – I too am sick and tired of these tatic’s. I just got the same email. I am amazed at how many I receive, not only for our site but from our client sites as well. I am cc’d on most of our client sites. You are right in they are making it that much harder for us to build credibility for our industry. Glad to see other stright up folks out there.
Hey thanks for the info! this is what they sent wickedmag.
Name: Janice Jacobsen
Email: jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Website:
Your interest: Jobs
Message: I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and
I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise
the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver
rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to
oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for
more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings.
Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll
never see rankings the same way again.
IP: 122.173.230.230
HOST: ABTS-North-Dynamic-230.230.173.122.airtelbroadband.in
This idiot is still at it. Annoying!!! Website contact form submitted
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
jimguthrie13@gmail.com on January 14th, 2011 at 09:55AM (MST).
first_name: Janice
last_name: Jacobsen
street_address: Charleroi
street_address_additional: Charleroi
city: Charleroi
state: PA
email: jimguthrie13@gmail.com
Interested_Products: Wood
Method_of_Advertising: Yellowpages
Preferred_Method_of_Contact: Phone
best_time_to_contact: 7am to 11am
Submit: Submit
Nice post, I like being able to get in touch with people that do work for me. If I can’t meet for coffee with someone, even if it means flying across the country, I don’t want to do business with them. I wouldn’t put it past someone to setup the spammer to get people to search the person, then find this site, who has a hero on it… A real SEO!!! That can really help their business. Everything can be setup… This is why I like to be able to meet people…buyer beware. Seller be ready for the contracts…;-)
Nice post! I’ve been getting the same email offers from him/her. What a byatch!
I just got this email today. Googled their name, found your blog in #1 spot for her name… talk about funny! Hopefully non-web savy website owners are smart enough to Google “her” name and to find this blog post. I run around 20 websites and I get a lot of “SEO spam” from sites saying I will sell more products/services, and half the sites they are contacting don’t even offer any product/services. Untargeted spam flat out bad.
Good Blog Thank you! Janice Jacobsen, hint, maybe get some tips from this Matthew as you have some pretty bad press and your rankings are lower than this…hmm you must be a little sketchy? . Maybe change your name again – Try Muddles the Dog, keep the same email so as we know it is still you, but time for another change yeah?
I had email months ago, which I just deleted. I was surprised when I got the same email by my contact form, which is only less than one week old. There is a captcha, which didn’t stop them. You guys don’t tell me that they filled the form by hand, do you?
Name = Janice Jacobsen
Phone = 0125874512
From_Email = jimguthrie15@gmail.com
Comments = I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
User’s IP address: 122.177.45.62
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.5.16 GTB7.1
@Vesko
First, thanks for the comment. This post continues to grow in comments and continues to rank well for the spammers name in the emails and hopefully, I have helped some webmasters not get burned by these guys.
Also, I do think they are filling these out by hand but it is being filled out by incredible cheap out-sourced labor that doesn’t care who they are contacting just that they are filling out forms. Hence the incredibly stupid form submission on my SEO blog try to sell me SEO. Idiots!
Just wanted to add my comment I also have had spam though my wite contact form, my form never really gets spam bots so I only presume this Janice Jacobsen or Jim is doing this manually, anyway just wanted to get then name Janice Jacobsen on your already already well ranked page to make these sleezy spammers easier to find for anyone else who googles them and hopefully does not buy their services.
Thanks for letting me have my say I feel better now.
@Ian
Yes, (as I commented to Vesko above) I think these submissions are occuring manually but by incredible cheap, low intelligent outsourced labor. They think that volume of submissions = better chance at hooking someone. But, business owners are becoming more savy and hit a search engine before even contacting them back. Which is why I am here
Thanks for stopping by and leaving the comment.
Also, I can’t believe this is still going on or that it is even working for them at this point b/c of the rankings my post has in the search engines.
Thanks Matt, just got this:
There has been a submission of the form Contact Us on through your website.
Name
Janice Jacobsen
E-Mail
jimguthrie15@gmail.com
How did you hear about us?
Twitter
Message
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
Believe it! Filled out a form on my website today. Same info as previous but different telephone number. I find it hard to believe anyone would respond to this without checking it out but I guess it happens or they wouldn’t keep filling out the forms.
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
Janice Jacobsen
Telephone: 0110120120120
jimguthrie14@gmail.com
He/She just spammed us
Hi,
I have receved the same email today, and I’m based in Italy…. seems like he’s looking for worldwide business!!
Got contacted by this same name recently. I responded to ask about the companies rates. Guess what? I got a response…
Here is the company that responded:
Captain Marketing
http://www.captainmarketing.com
Brilliant JW!
I haven’t successfully heard back from any of the spam emails that I reply too. They may realize I am an SEO and would probably just out them for their shady shady practices.
Running a spam email campaign like this to acquire customers really raises other questions as the the ethics and quality that they apply to their search marketing campaigns. I would suggest staying away for them, seems a little sleazy.
Also just tried to find the person behind the company and there is no one identified on the site. Also the Whois is private registered to hide who owns the URL. The only thing I could cook up is a Linkedin profile for the company – http://www.linkedin.com/company/captain-marketing
I applied for a social media writer job on craigslist and it was by this company. It seems a little shady since I got an automated reply with my resume. (I have no background in this field.)
Wow I just received an email from Janice and was really ready to sign my life away to her, she sounded wonderful. Then here you come along and spoil all of my fun after being ready to be “begging for more”. You bastard!
Sorry to burst your bubble Flemo!
But as my parents taught me growing up: If it sounds too good to be true, it is!
Everyone needs to watch themselves when receiving unsolicited emails because you never know who is ACTUALLY on the other end.
All the best!
Great job Matthew, I love it. Thanks for posting this!
This clown and many others are always spamming my clients. Most of them just ignore it, some will write back and say something like “And you found my site where? Yea, the 1st page of Google… take a hike!” LOL
If only they truly understood SEO they wouldn’t be spamming. I’m so busy I pick and chose who I work with. I guess when you do good and current clients want to expand and refer their associates, that’s what happens! I won’t even post my URL because I don’t need the link and my main site is in major need of an overhaul, (coming soon) but kind of embarrassing to be honest. : )
I’ve got so many spamming “seo service”. I hate their dirty method. They don’t understand, This is not promoting SEO service but it’s spamming their customer candidat. LOL
Thanks Matthew for writing this up.
~james
Hi guys,
Here is another one:
Name = Jaime Jack
Phone = 0120120120
From_Email = jackwalkerdo@gmail.com
We noticed that you are not at the top of the search engines for a number of your key terms. We have helped companies similar to yours to achieve top organic rankings. Please reply to this message and we will prepare a special proposal for you, to show you how we can achieve similar results for you.
User’s IP address: 122.161.212.58
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
How many do we already know?
Jim Guthrie – jimguthriess@gmail.com
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Jaime Jack – jackwalkerdo@gmail.com
…………………….
Laura Nowacki
Matthew,
Our office just received a lead notice from our company website with the “Janice Jacobsen” using the e-mail address of jimguthrie13@gmail.com. The company name that this person indicated was simply “Marketing Company”.
Thanks for the post and heads up! Cheers!
Janice Jacobsen is still going strong sending the same message to contact forms:
email: jimguthrie13@gmail.com
IP address indicate, they are using mobile broadband connection from New Delhi, India
Hello,
I’m French.
I have a question to block spam on my site.
Math question in French.
But I have this message:
- Son pseudo : Janice Jacobsen
- Son E-mail : jimguthrie13@gmail.com
- Son site :
- Objet du message : Thought regarding your website
- Message :
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
–> I note it here as a database against that person.
Hey Alban!
Thanks for leaving the message. “Janice” seems to have kicked it in high gear recently as I am hearing from a lot of people about there spam emails.
It looks like they are spreading through, I believe you are the first from France to post here. With that said, everyone in France beware of these emails!
One more…
Maybe I should give up and give them the money…
Name = Marvin Maloney
Phone = 1201201200
From_Email = miltonlake654@gmail.com
Comments = Search Engine Marketing will increase your company’s online presence through comprehensive online marketing campaigns, targeted search engine optimization, and highly managed internet marketing promotions. A search engine marketing campaign will encompass several procedures and factors to make it successful. Please reply to this email so we can send you more details.
User’s IP address: 122.162.137.64
HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110121 Firefox/3.5.17 GTB7.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Hey Vesko – Thanks for coming back with more of these emails. The snakeoil salesmen behind these spam broadcasts are relentless! Never give up hope because there are real professionals out there (like me) who don’t stoop to such a low level.
Keep fightin’ the good fight!
Hi Matthew,
Just wanted to give you a special thank-you for your blog and especially for your post on this subject. I just got the same message from a form filled out at our website. The name used was Janaice Jacobsen and the email address was jimguthrie12@gmail.com. The first thing I did was google the name and your site was the #1 ranking. Happy I found you before I did something stupid like even responding to this con! It is sites like yours that make the internet a good place when used properly. Thanks again.
Best Regards,
Craig
Hi, thanks for this, I just received the same email through a comment form on my blog.
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dateWed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:56 AM
subjectContact Form: Thought regarding your website
mailed-bychristinebarry.com
I\’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I\’d
love to show you what my service can do for you. I don\’t promise the
world, I\’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings.
My rates are completely affordable and I don\’t want to oversell you
either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won\’t
take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this
e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you\’ll never see
rankings the same way again.
From: Janice Jacobsen
Email: jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Blog: christinebarry.com
######
Thanks for the heads up Matthew
Found you by googling Janice Jacobsen. ~cb
me too ,i got the same stupid message.
Great. The same person just message me using my blog. Kinda oxymoronic of a SEO specialist to advertise like this. I did the same thing as you did. The email didn’t look professional but like any other Gmail account. I googled it and I landed on your post. Cheers man.
I just heard from our friend Janice
Got his mail too!
You should become his SEO agent as your post is ranked #1 for his name
Ha, here it is nearly a year after your post and I just got a message from “Janice.”
I just searched for “jimguthrie13@gmail.com” as it was the first spam SEO service email i got that actually looked like it could have been genuine. I guess know i know the truth
Thanks Matthew for the heads up! I wish more people would take the time to let others know about things like this! Have a great day!!!
Yada Yada Yada everybody’s got a schtick …I think it’s a boiler room full of unemployed weird-os…but thanks for being here to reconfirm my suspicions…I’ve had a couple of these in the last few days…I wonder if that means I’m moving up the blog/website ladder…ha ha ha.
I got the same email and did a search to see what I could find. The thing is, if these people had any real value to offer, they’d be getting business from their own website instead of email spam. – Or at least they’d put their web address in the email if their website didn’t have a Pagerank of 1.
Hey Matthew,
I think, they like me.
This is my full list:
Jim Guthrie – jimguthriess@gmail.com
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrie13@gmail.com
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Jaime Jack – jackwalkerdo@gmail.com
Jaime Jacob – jesseholden116@gmail.com
Jaime Jacob – jesseholden1a@gmail.com
Darian Lewis – derekjohnson.321@gmail.com
Marvin Maloney – miltonlake654@gmail.com
Laura Nowacki -
I just received this one, one more for your list Laura:
jackwalker74@gmail.com
I just received such a mail, he/she probably ís looking for work in SEO, but it’s in a most annoying manner.
Thanks for posting this. I just received an email from Janice as well. It’d be ironic if Janice/Jim’s spam bot, or whatever searches and spams comment sections, did it for a blog entry on them being a spammer. Of course, in saying that, I don’t wish it on your blog (or anyone’s blog), Matthew.
Got the email, googled the name and found your blog, nice one!
Nice blog, one of my clients just got spammed with this over the top rubbish. I’m in Australia and my client is a .au ccTLD so it’s interesting to note this one is global.
Regards SS
hi ta for the heads up on this scammer to be honest i was almost taken in by it but google her name and came accorss your blog
Regards Paul
Looks like “Laura” is expanding her ‘services’ from plain old google no1 seo spam services, here’s her latest email…
From:
Laura Nowacki
lnlauranowacki-at-gmail.com
Message:
We provide custom software development, software testing, database
development, maintenance and other services related to web and
software development. Please contact me for more information.
thanks for call this guy out!
Janice is at it still! I can’t believe how many comments there are here,
Jim/Janice is a busy little spammer!
thanks for the post, I will ignore the message now.
Thank you so much for posting this info
I received exactly the same copy/paste SEO bs email from jimguthrieii@gmail.com and as others before me, googling the address brought me to your blog
Over a year later and the spam content remains the same.
Yup, I was graced with a Jim/Janice email today as well. Did a quick search which revealed your blog as #1. Thank you, nice job!
Thanks for the informative post. I just received a spam form e-mail from Laura Nowacki, and a search on her name led me eventually to your (much needed) blog post. Perhaps you can add a brief note about Laura in your main post so that anyone Googling her will find your page.
Thanks again!
Yep, I keep getting the exact same email from this Transgender SEO buffoon. Targeting SEO companies is just plain daft!
Well done for getting this blog post up!
Thanks
Mark
Great post – I didn’t think the message sounded legit and I was also confused about the Janet/Jim mix-up (sounds more like Janet and John now)
Hi Matthew,
The SEO is strong with you ~
can’t tell you how many times ‘Janice’ has spammed me through various contact forms the I have set up on client sites, AND my SEO sites. A couple of years back, when ‘Janice/Jim’ started this rain of spammy SEO terror, I used to write back snarky replies, and never got an answer.
This time I decided to run Ms./Mr. Jacobsen’s name trough The Google, and found your site. Thanks for the fun ! Credit where credit is due !
Cheerio !
~ Kit
I got it too: Now shes selling software?
Name: Laura Nowacki
Email: laura.lauranowacki@gmail.com
Feedback Details
Subject: Software Development
Comments:
We provide custom software development, software testing, database development, maintenance and other services related to web and software development. Please contact me for more information.
You know i cant even turn on my skype any more due to people like Laura from INDIA absolutely slamming my Skype with requests for work…It seems the only people who are doing this to most of my blogs are from INDIA! id say 95%… whats the deal with this country? Do they have any ethics at all?
Rey
What do you know! I got it too (a few times)
From: Janice Jacobsen
Subject: Thought regarding your website
Message: I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
…sure….
Another spam, thanks for the site.
Contact us
Your name Janice Jacobsen
Phone
Company name
Email jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Message Thought regarding your website
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Heh, this is funny that there is actually a post about this particular person, but well (s)he’s been doing it for ages – I got one today, you’d think they’d change their email address or copied introduction!! So just now I (as a web developer) changed my form processing to pretend that it was properly submitted but if the message contains ‘SEO’ ‘rankings’, ‘improve results’, ‘increase(d) traffic’ then it never even gets passed on (I hope)… Any comments if this is a good idea, I can’t think of any of these terms being used in a legitimate sentence?
Janice is extremely persistent. It’s a shame google has not picked up on these solicitations. All the SEO spam I get, whether its from Janice or Jane or any other girl’s name on the planet, comes a gmail addresses – hell, almost ALL of them use gmail addresses on form spam too.
In fact I have half a mind to think that this might be our culprit: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/janice-jacobsen/0/7ba/1
Hi, I just got an email from Janice Jacobson, but, I was immediately suspicious because it came via my webhost? which I thought at first glance was a message from Hostgator. It was odd as she had used the first part of my web address for hostgator login to cpanel, not sure whether to have a word with Hostgator about it.
gator1361.hostgator.com
“I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.”
Whilst it is true that my new sites need a lot of work, (I am very new to website development) I would never take any notice of anyone slipping an email in, making out it might be from my web-host, and which has not been solicited by me, and particularly when they could have taken my contact details off any one of my websites, and contacted me in the normal way. So I googled the name and found your blog. Thanks! for the information about Janice Jacobsen. Pamela
Just to correct my spelling error I spelt the spammer’s surname incorrectly at the begining of my entry above, it should read “Jacobsen”. Sorry about that. Incidentally this is another email address I just noticed which I presume is meant to be hers too:
Janice Jacobsen
jimguthrie14@gmail.com
Cheers! Pamela
My list is getting long:
Carlos Carney – charlesgates002@gmail.com
IP address: 182.68.43.213
Darian Lewis – derekjohnson.321@gmail.com
IP address: 122.177.82.150
Gary Smith Garyinternetmarketing@gmail.com
IP address: 59.177.132.196
Jim Guthrie – jimguthriess@gmail.com
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrie13@gmail.com
IP address:122.161.124.123
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrieii@gmail.com
Jaime Jack – jackwalkerdo@gmail.com
Jaime Jacob – jesseholden116@gmail.com
IP address: 182.68.95.199
Jaime Jacob – jesseholden1a@gmail.com
IP address: 122.173.56.187
Jorge – nehaseo.seo17@gmail.com
Leah Brady – leah.brady19@gmail.com
Larina sara – lisaalderman.123@gmail.com
IP address: 122.177.111.182
IP address: 122.173.90.59
IP address: 59.178.35.99
Laura Nowacki -
Marvin Maloney – miltonlake654@gmail.com
IP address: 122.161.116.140
IP address: 122.162.137.64
Phyllis Palacios – phillipbabb654@gmail.com
IP address: 182.64.233.62
Sib Alley – Sibseomarketing@gmail.com
IP address: 59.177.136.84
IP address: 120.56.194.214
IP address: 59.178.59.91
IP address: 59.178.35.99
Thank you so very much for exposing the iligitimacy of this scammer. My hats of to ya!
Be well,
Shell
I just received an email from the lovely Janice and I instantly googled her name and cameaccross your blog…got to LOVE google…not that I thought she was legit because he use of forward slashes and delivery was ridonculous!! Glad to have found this.
Thanks,
Diana
Hey matthew !
(sorry, my English is very bad).
After March 17, 2011 … It’s me again from France.
Again, the message comes from my contact form.
However, I have a question (in French) to block spam-bots, on my website.
Today’s message is this:
- Son pseudo : Joey Jacobs
- Son E-mail : justinmadrid009@gmail.com
- Son site :
- Objet du message : Thought regarding your 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.
Like my firts comment –> I note it here as a database against Janice (or another Name).
The list is long now!!! Thank’s for this page.
sincerely
She/he is still sending out the same email, just received today. I luckily googled her name and came up with your site – thank you!!!
Hello,
A new one.
they know how to thwart anti-spam code.
But they do not write me in French;-)
Larina sara was write by Vesko (August 20, 2011 at 11:21 pm) like lisaalderman.123@gmail.com
Now, there are : lisaalderman.132@gmail.com
- Son pseudo : Larina sara
- Son E-mail : lisaalderman.132@gmail.com
- Son site :
- Objet du message : Want more customers?
- 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.
Wow. (S)he is STILL doing this! Crazy.
Took me two seconds to google his/her/it’s name and this blog post was the top hit.
Thanks for writing it in the first place.
It is still active:
Your Name: Janice Jacobsen
Your E-Mail: jimguthrie13@gmail.com
Subject: Thought regarding your website
Your Message: I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
What will happen if I say “Yes, I want you to do the optimization thing!”?
[ ] My Mail gets marked as “valid”, put in a list and I never hear of her/him again?
[ ] I pay for something and get crap or nothing?
Hello everyone I am new but just have gotten up to check my email and when I seen this contact I had to run his/her name and found this site, So nice to see people who actually care about us hard working people. Here is the email I received (same name same everything
Thanks EOS
Name : Janice Jacobsen
EMail : jimguthrie15@gmail.com
Daytime Phone : 0120120120
Comments : I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again
Janice Jacobsen sent a message using the contact form at http://www.usa-contractors.com/contact.
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
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I replied with a link to your post
Haha! That is great John.
Such a shame to the name Jacobsen
Sorry Tim!
I won’t hold it against you but can’t speak for everyone – haha!
Janice’s latest spam recipient here! By the looks of the post dates on here, he/she doesn’t appear to be slowing down or show signs of stopping in the near future. I guess business is good for Jim/Janice when it comes to the unsuspecting. We get tones of these messages to our site, and I have often assumed they were junk. Interesting to think there are probably folks out there who don’t research people before giving then money 0r purchasing services. Thank you Matt.
Name:
Janice Jacobsen
Company:
Phone:
State:
Signup for Newsletter?
Yes
Message:
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
IP Address:
122.161.48.123
Timestamp:
2011-11-08 03:33:20
Just got the same email – apparently they are not giving up on spreading their spam around. I’m glad I Googled Janice Jacobsen and came across your blog site. Thanks for posting this, saved a lot of people a big headache.
I too have been getting her/his spam through the contact page of my website. I finally googled her/him and got your post. Thanks also for the heads-up, from an SEO consumer who is muddling through the internet junk on the path to business survival and searching for valid SEO info/services. It is so hard to find the REAL thing, thanks to the imposters.
Thank-you for posting your findings. This is an evil that needs exposed. I haven’t found an honest SEO Co. yet! When I got my:
From: Janice Jacobsen
Email:(jimguthrie15@gmail.com)
I found it to sound honest. This tells me that the best is the worst and that is what screws it up for an honest SEO business. What is your sugestions in finding an honest SEO Company?
We are getting emails like this for some time now and it’s annoying – as you probably already know yourself
Not only is this person sending us spam but as under the names of a three different people. Does anyone know how we can block those messages from our contact form?
Thanks for this site as i just got the following message through my website and i wasnt sure about it so i goggled the name and i was sent to this site. Thanks for the information.
I’ve helped hundreds of companies increase their traffic and I’d love to show you what my service can do for you. I don’t promise the world, I’m straight forward and to the point … I deliver rankings. My rates are completely affordable and I don’t want to oversell you either, I start small and have my clients begging for more. I won’t take on your site unless I know I can deliver rankings. Reply to this e-mail if you have the slightest interest … you’ll never see rankings the same way again.
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrie13@gmail.com
IP address:122.161.124.123
Janice Jacobsen – jimguthrieii@gmail.com
We get loads frm mrs Jim and Mr Janice
Has anyone tried to call/take up thier offer/bluff and actually got them (hey I’m talking as if they’re two people!) to show more so this practice might stop.
Maybe you know another spammer that can spam them too!.Takes one to catch one?
Just had another thought
maybe……………..
your them,him,her and this is a massive double bluff to make you look good
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Hi Paul!
Props on your cynical mind and it really made me laugh. But, I am definitely not them, him, her or whatever it is. Haha!
No double bluff, just a upstanding SEO professional calling it as I see it.
Hi Matthew,
I am just stopping by to say, that I am tired of them and I do not keep track anymore.
However, here is something else for who believe. You people do not ever replay to unsubscribe from spam emails.
I think, I did that mistake long time ago….
This one is new, from San Diego.
It has a zip code.
“Katie” became “Jesika” and is asking for 12 minutes, to do what…? – To send me spam emails.
From: “Katie”
To: “Vesko”
Hi, I was hoping you would give me just twelve minutes of your time to talk to you about your website. I am showing businesses like yours how they stack up against their competition, with a no obligation in depth analysis of their site.
I pride myself in understanding how search engines work, and can break it down to a simple science for you. If you give me an opportunity, I can show you how your site is currently stacking up against your competition and how you could be on top _ getting all the traffic your business deserves.
I am doing this at no cost. If by the end of twelve minutes you do not want my help, at least I will know you are making an educated decision and will remember my name when you are ready.
Please let me know the best way to reach you and any comments you want me to consider before I do my research.
I look forward to earning your business,
Jesika Mills
Traffic Marketing | Sales Department | San Diego, CA 92166
If you never want to hear from me again, just reply with REMOVE in the subject.
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