A message from Sandra:
Because I set up a lot of sites, I see quite a few of the same messages. Here is one you may have seen. It is not from a human.
Contact Us
On: Nov 27, 2015 @ 12:01 PM
IP: 107.173.160.108
- Name: Sandra
- Contact Number: tshmusuebqe@sskdolek.net
- Email Address: http://www.arvut.org/1/dft
- I wish to contact you about:
- Your Message: Hi my name is Sandra and I just wanted to drop you a quick note here instead of calling you. I came to your Contact Us | (your name here) page and noticed you could have a lot more traffic. I have found that the key to running a successful website is making sure the visitors you are getting are interested in your niche. There is a company that you can get targeted visitors from and they let you try their service for free for 7 days. I managed to get over 300 targeted visitors to day to my website. Visit them here: http://ittsy.com/it/3x
Well it is very nice of Sandra to be worried about us. Of course Sandra is not actually real, she changes her name from website to website. Sometimes she comes from China, India, or in this case Buffalo, New York State. Or at least the message originated through a server there.
For those of you with contact forms that require a reCaptcha entry you will not see this type of spam message. For those of you without reCaptcha then a computer locating your website will see a form and fill it in. It will anticipate that the form will go onto the website and be visible to everyone.
The Scam
This solicitation, inviting you to visit somewhere will eventually ask you to pay a fee to increase the visitors to your website. If you did, and you checked your analytics, there would be a spike in the numbers. However seeing more visitors arriving on your site does not equate to more business. Why would someone in Buffalo, New York be interested in a small local charity in Herefordshire, England? They don’t care.
Referral Spam
This is conjecture on my part, however there is something called referral spam that bumps the numbers up in Google Analytics. It has become a pain, because they distort the real numbers. Plus if you dig down the alleged visitors actually never existed. It is probably a scheme like this that increases your traffic with no tangible benefit to you or your organisation.
Hidden Link
The link on the bottom of this message is a shortened URL. The real URL is hidden using this method. So who knows if you click on the link, you might be taken to one of the scammers victims sites to increase their visitors numbers.
Bottom line
It is a junk/ spam message. It was also computer generated which is why you have a link where the email address is, and an email address where the telephone number is.
Other scams
Another one like this is boosting the Facebook Like numbers. Again you pay for it and then find that the number of likes on your website has increased by 3000. It is not real. Don’t get sucked in.
If you suffer with a lot of junk mail I can use a different type of form which will reduce it or eliminate it altogether. Please contact me.