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Hi Arvada,
I got the same email and so did many others. Think about it for a minute, nobody could actually be that dumb and have an internet marketing job. There is a method to this seeming stupidity.
There are actually 6 websites with the same silly profiles you mentioned, and all under different names. This is definitely a scam – and a larger one than it would seem from viewing one site.
This blog has traced 6 of them back to a single IP address.
http://www.1earthadventures.com/2008/06/25/malaysia/grassroots-advertising-and-gr-adscom-scam-or-not/
It’s apparently a REAL marketing company doing paid-link SEO ‘dirty work’ under the guise of a maze of ‘false front’ companies, fake employee profiles using stock photos and false identities like “sally” who contacted you.
This is to spread paid links and influence Google’s pagerank system without implicating the ‘top level’ SEO companies (who pose as these weird companies) in deceptive linking practices.
What a WEIRD world!
Hey Migel!
Thanks for posting this… your research into this company was a real eye-opener.
As far as people being that dumb and have an internet marketing job… you’d be surprised just how many of these types of emails I get from legitimate companies that have been around a long time.
I wrote this article without the intention of exposing any sort of scam or “dumb marketer,” but with the intention of showing those with very little marketing experience what NOT to do when they write email proposals. I was trying to use it as a teaching tool… you made it even more of a teaching tool when you exposed the scam. Thanks!!!