Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Spam from Cattledriver LLC: William (Bill) Hicks

Warning do not do business with spammers such as Cattledriver LLC. The only way to stop spam - unsolicited commercial emails - is to not do business with companies who market this way.

This pathetic spam was sent to a harvested email address of a SEO Company! By harvested


I am trying to contact (name removed)

Anyway I specialize in getting sites
listed at the top of Google in organic listings.
Since you already do some type of advertising in LookSmart, I know you need to get more placement in Google. I was wondering if you could get back with me as soon as possible.
I look forward to working with (web site removed).

In today's Internet Economy everything is about performance. I know I can help drive traffic to (web site removed) and lots of it.

After the first month, it is only $300 month.
That's all there is to it.
I hope that sounds good to you.
I look forward to hearing some kind of response.

http://www.cattle-drive.net
1-888-359-5553

Please get back with me at your earliest convience (Buddy - next time use spell check before you send out unwanted email!) - or you can email me here http://www.cattle-drive.net

Thanks,

JB
1-888-359-5553


(If we emailed you by mistake and you would like to be taken off please go to the url.)

http://www.direct-launch.com
2018 NE 31 Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305

This Cattle Drive company poorly formats emails, has spelling errors in his bulk unsolicited spam emails and has the following HTML errors on his index page alone that could easily have been picked up if the site was checked:

line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing declaration
line 140 column 91 - Warning: discarding unexpected /a
line 147 column 76 - Warning: img unexpected or duplicate quote mark
line 148 column 7 - Warning: font dropping value "arial" for repeated attribute "face"
line 14 column 1 - Warning: script inserting "type" attribute
line 22 column 1 - Warning: script inserting "type" attribute
line 46 column 1 - Warning: script inserting "type" attribute
line 60 column 9 - Warning: table proprietary attribute "bordercolor"

I ask you, would you get a manicure from a manicurists with broken dirty nails?

Would you use an optometrist who can not read an eye chart himself because his glasses are the wrong prescription?

Information about this spammers domain:

Registrant:
CattleDriver, LLC
William (Bill) Hicks
2018 NE 31 Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305
US
Email: vlink@bellsouth.net

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: cattle-drive.net

Created on..............: Thu, Mar 13, 2008
Expires on..............: Fri, Mar 13, 2009
Record last updated on..: Thu, Mar 13, 2008

Administrative Contact:
CattleDriver, LLC
William (Bill) Hicks
2018 NE 31 Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305
US
Phone: +1.9545681621
Email: vlink@bellsouth.net

Technical Contact:
Registercom
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: +1.9027492701
Email: domainregistrar@register.com

DNS Servers:

dns222.c.register.com
dns249.d.register.com
dns025.b.register.com
dns174.a.register.com

And information about the domain www.direct-launch.com

Registrant:
CattleDriver, LLC
William (Bill) Hicks
2018 NE 31 Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305
US
Email: vlink@bellsouth.net

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: direct-launch.com

Created on..............: Thu, Mar 13, 2008
Expires on..............: Fri, Mar 13, 2009
Record last updated on..: Thu, Mar 13, 2008

Administrative Contact:
CattleDriver, LLC
William (Bill) Hicks
2018 NE 31 Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305
US
Phone: +1.9545681621
Email: vlink@bellsouth.net

Technical Contact:
Registercom
Domain Registrar
575 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
US
Phone: +1.9027492701
Email: domainregistrar@register.com

DNS Servers:

dns222.c.register.com
dns249.d.register.com
dns025.b.register.com
dns154.a.register.com

Other email address: dave.liscum@cattledriver.com

I wonder if you spam this company if they will like it?

The only way to stop spam - unsolicited commercial emails is to not do business with companies who market this way.

Update May 8th 2008:
More information about Cattle-driver.net alleged spamming activities:

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just got spam from CattleDriver myself today, this time promoting the domain name ProSEOGroup.com. Ironically, they sent the email to another SEO firm! Just another one of those "SEO" spammers. Got to love them.

Anonymous said...

I'm ashamed to admit I actually responded to their email and figured I'd try their google SEO program. They took my money, refused to do anything, and refused a refund. I dug a little further and found out they have scammed a bunch of others too.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/373/RipOff0373445.htm

Anonymous said...

I have dealt with these guys and they are a joke. They do not want to help you in any way, and they will take advantage of you whenever possible. Their press releases about their websites "bend the truth" to say the least. I'm not proud of myself for putting them down, but I think people need to be warned.

Anonymous said...

The same person is also spamming websites saying they are from seoleaderonline.com (jb@seoleaderonline.com) and a whois trail led me to cattledriver which led me to this blog. I have twice reported them to their host who couldnt care less. So I have added him to the spammers list at stopforumspam.com as I also saw them post on a forum so guess they fit the bill.