Comments on: SEO Mistakes: Unsolicited faxes

By: Jose

Jose — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:02:55 +0000

Lol, what companies will do to make money. I wonder how many people actually fell for it and bought the service?

By: butlimous

butlimous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:53:50 +0000

It appears that the above bill is FAKE and it is very obvious!

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:20:06 +0000

Thursday, December 21st, and the large corporation that I work for just received this fax. Luckily, the person who received the fax forwarded it to the IT department, rather than the AP department. I didn’t even flinch at it. I saw that the website was listed with a Panamanian domain name, yet the address to remit payment to was in New Jersey. Maybe they chose a Panama domain name because most Americans would interpret the .pa as Pennsylvania? Either way, they can take a flying leap and all of our AP staff was made aware to not remit payment on these.

By: Kipper

Kipper — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:55:18 +0000

I just received one of the same inflated prices “Official Internet Registry & Optimization Bureau” faxes on Oct 13th and filed with the ever so helpfully above provided FCC website. I found this thread on google, near the top, so this thread does not need the services of the dreaded company with horrid, illegal fax/business practices!

Thanks guys/gals

Kev

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:40:48 +0000

Looks like this scam is still going strong heading into 2007… just recieved it via fax and posted the photos here: http://www.dancooper.org/seo-scam-official-internet-registry-optimization-bureau/

Thanks,
Dan

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:00:36 +0000

Today is October 18th and we just got our first fax of this letter, which looks basically the same as above, but the 12 easy monthly payments was changed to $55.00 per month (or $660.00 per year) and it had an option for ***Semi-Annual*** Payment (normally $329.97) and save 20% by paing ONLY $265.00. Less people must be falling for it since they had to double their prices!~

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:11:00 +0000

Hello Matt

Today is October 17th and my company got their first copy of this fax – with a few extra’s added to make it look more official and urgent.

By: Jon Watts

Jon Watts — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:53:30 +0000

They have a contact number 877 290-2454 from their web site so I dialed it and left the receiver by the radio with Rush Limbaugh to leave my message to them. I believe he was ranting about John Kerry. I hope they pay for this service by the call.

By: jc

jc — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:58:53 +0000

Fax still going strong months later. Received 07/11/2006. Thanks to all for giving info for reporting

By: Charles L

Charles L — Fri, 26 May 2006 20:02:56 +0000

I received almost an identical fax on 5/18/06 which was routed to my inbox (A/P). I of course didn’t pay it because they aren’t in our system as an authorized vendor and I don’t have any backup paperwork (purchase requisition).

Besides the violations mentioned above it is also unlawful to have a solicitation look like an invoice without the required (This is not a bill.) disclaimer. There are also laws regarding disclaimers required if using a seal that appears to be a governmental seal. For more information see: http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cos65.htm