UPDATED: Check out the comments on this post for ‘interesting developments…’.
Some readers might remember an episode that occurred earlier this year: Internet ninja cowboys … or schoolboys?
Blackhat techniques? {snort!} (image: hathorizons.com - click)
Hilarious! A few hours after I set up ThePaepae.com’s new Facebook page yesterday, overnight we had a sudden surge of email… with a lot of ‘Please confirm your subscription to our mailing list’ messages.
It seems someone (who? I wonder) had a bit of time on their hands and submitted ThePaepae.com’s email address (not disclosed on the Facebook page, so no ‘leak’ there) to a bunch of mail list subscription pages.
Like a lot of ‘internet marketing’ ruses, these juvenile tricks might have worked in the past, but fortunately they’re pretty easy to spot.
Well, guess what?
More ‘juvenile tricks’ (By coincidence? You be the judge.)
A couple of days ago, somebody submitted thePaepae.com’s email address to a website called ‘allspammedup.com’ — adding a fake message from ‘Peter’ [ahem] extending the invitation ‘spam away baby‘…
Wow. Impressive internet skills! (Er, not!) Pretending to be me and asking for spam.
Well, hardy har, har, har! I wonder who could possibly have done that? And for what possible reason?
As the listserv message about the last wanker er, prankster spelt out very clearly:
This is usually done in retribution for having posted something on a public forum which made the perpetrator lose face. …
… in most cases this person will be a technically skilled individual who will know what steps need to be taken in order to hide one’s track. It is usually much easier to identify the perpetrator using traditional investigative methods, such as looking for technically skilled individuals that the victim has recently angered.
Can anyone think of anyone who this description possibly might fit? By any chance? Anyone?
Who could it b– … hang on, I’m getting an idea!
UPDATED: Check out the comments on this post for ‘interesting developments…’
If the person is who we all think he is…than that person does not deserve to be an Internet Marketing guru at all.
No-one will want to be associated with such a person…
Internet skills are used to create wealth, etc but NOT to sabotage any other persons by any means..
For him (and his gang of bandits) to deploy such childish, unprofessional, uncivilised way of dealing with criticisms simply expose his true identify to the rest of the world.
No matter how well he portrays himself in front of his audience, such acts of pure foolishness will forever tarnish his image and his so-called “enterprise”…
Yes, I completely agree with you … and look at this: Someone has been BUSY!!
I got this Google Alert tonight…
… Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? It led me to this page …
Oh. Interesting. It hasn’t worked (or it’s been moderated?) But WHO CAN HAVE POSTED IT?
Here’s the poster’s profile, created just a few hours ago.>..
Then there’s this Google search, which when you read the snippets, discloses some of the ‘ninja’ tricks like (gasp) boldening a key phrase. Pure genius!
And… did you notice this time, in the bottom result, they’re spelling my name right (Look at the URL) … but does it do the band of not-so-merry men any good?
Nope. Not so far.
A few questions:
1) Why would someone choose NOW of all times, to run a little internet experiment to try to get my name associated with the word s-c-a-m …to affect my ‘reputation’ … and using technical internet tools as ‘Search Engine Optimisation’ and ‘Keyword placement’ to achieve ‘Rank’ etc ? What does that remind you of? Not ‘internet marketing’, by any chance? Hmmmm.
2) WHO would have the [cough] ‘expertise’ to attempt such a silly and pointless task? And what could possibly motivate them to do so, d’ya think?
3) Who would have the [lack of] ethics (and poor spelling) to try to do things like this? With pseudonymns and fake names … like ‘Jennifer‘. (Oohh…)
4) How many questions do I have to ask before it becomes blindingly obvious to anyone reading who is probably behind this smear campaign…?
What a shallow bunch they are!
Must be that gang of bandits! What a shame!
How AMUSING. They’re now ‘desperate’ (their own word) to get a certain phrase higher in Google ‘ranking’ … and they appear to have established a brand new WordPress blog (yesterday) for the purpose.
Oh well, it’s nothing compared with what the courageous Neil Jenman has to put up with from Australian property spruikers and dishonest thugs … http://www.thepaepae.com/speak-up/6274/
PS: Terrible writing, too, wouldn’t you say? It reads like the pseudo-technical bullshit that certain glib people promulgate around the world … hawking ‘super secrets of internet marketing goldmines’ … or similar get-rich-quick pap…. mixed in with a heavy sprinkling of semi-literate bush lawyer. (Sorry if that assessment hurts anyone’s feelings.) – Peter
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I can’t help it. This still makes me laugh:
That article with phrases like “we need to vibrant” has clearly been put through an article spinner. A techie loosely linked to them told me earlier this year that spinning can be done well. I beg to differ but the publisher of this article should have listened. They might have learned something.
Ranking well for any phrase is only of use if people are using it. I wonder, before this lark commenced, how many actual searches there were for “Peter Aryani Scam” or even! “Peter Aranyi Scam”?
Better still, if your text details how you are targeting the phrase anyone people will skip over the result as they search for real details of real scams.
IMO, this is an “own goal”.
Hi Sarah. Yes, thanks.
I wonder what THE SALTY DROID would make of these tossers and their dodgy internet-based um, ‘activities’ ?
Let’s face it, they have the appearance of acting in retribution for thePaepae.com hosting discussions with disappointed Asian customers of Shaun Stenning’s “internet marketing” business.
In my opinion, the hyperbolic hawking of Twa.lk and Sni.pr by Shaun ‘Geekversity’ Stenning and Dean ‘Mr X’ Letfus eventually HAD to run into difficulties — surely — when reality set in. That’s what happened with Geekversity — and it seems to me this ‘new’ scheme is pixie dust from the same pie-in-the-sky-you-can-get-uber-rich-real-quick-via-the-internet-without-any-effort hallucination.
I feel sorry for those customers in Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Malaysia whose hopes were inflated (and are now deflated judging by the comments here). Where are the success stories from the Asian expansion? Where are the voices in support? Besides sockpuppet ‘Jennifer’ there doesn’t seem to be anyone speaking up against the ‘refund movement’.
As I have discussed elsewhere, I’m bemused that thePaepae.com ‘ranks’ so (relatively) well, apparently. It’s not anything I do intentionally. I just blog about my enthusiasms and share links for anyone interested. No big deal.
– Peter
What *is* an article spinner? Is it like a Google translate operation? (The written English of the fake WP ‘scam’ blog is SO bad, I wondered if maybe it had been put through Google translate a couple of times?)
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An article spinner is a program that looks for common words and swaps them with (supposed) synonyms. That way one article can be used many times without the search engines thinking they are the same.
The only problem is each article needs to be proofed afterwards – and they rarely are. The proofing process needs to be done by a native english speaker who will see that vibrant isn’t an adverb and just doesn’t work. In the time that takes they might as well write a new copy.
Cheers, thanks. But why on earth would they do that with THAT article??? Covering tracks? (Just curious.) – P
I’d say its going to turn up somewhere else. The proof of their prowess will be in how quickly Google shows us where 😉
Rust never sleeps?
Yup, more. Busy, busy, busy little internet ‘experts’…
Another ‘blog’ set up in the past few days with the intention of demonstrating a ‘reputation attack’ on me, based on vacuity. (Pathetic, really.)
I guess ‘Don’t Dish it Out if You Can’t Take It‘ applies but as noted earlier, it intrigues me that somebody is taking the time and trouble to have a crack at me. Obviously they can’t/can’t be bothered highlighting anything substantial so they’re playing games.
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And Sarah it looks like you were right about the article spinner….
The quote above from the Blogspot site is relatively clear English, but was ‘spun’ for that WP one to :
It’s revealing, isn’t it, how they’re playing this ‘retribution’ game…. while repeatedly declaring their own actions ‘unethical and malicious‘.
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Another version (below from a press release site) with this wording for the passage we’re comparing …
Looks like they’re trying to imitate ‘unique content’ to marshal their ‘reputation attack’. It’s looking more and more like you-know-who.
Watch for their downfall.
[…] … funnily enough, the very same website through which someone mysteriously attempted to fool Google into linking the word s-c-a-m with my name. Well, what do you know? I thought. Shaun Stenning is a contributor to that very same website! […]
Just to let you know that more of that spurious, badly-written and misleading copy (or a massaged version of it) has popped up on a few other ‘article’ sites used and abused by so-called ‘internet marketers’ like Shaun Stenning et al.
These sad people push their vacuous ill-intentioned spammy keyword-rich mush around the internet. They clog the web and obscure more meaningful content with their insincere commercial detritus — all in a venal effort to attract shallow ‘traffic’ to expose their
writhing naked bodiessilly vacuous adsense or Amazon ads to.As you may gather, I have no respect for them and their mercenary efforts whatsoever.
See THIS sort of stuff (click to enlarge):
Also interesting the noms de plume used — ‘Jenny0‘ and ‘George0‘ have a LOT of articles in common, as you can see.
We had a sockpuppet called Jennifer/Jen pop up here at thePaepae.com a week or so back to defend Shaun Stenning, if I recall.
Hmm… Jennifer, Jen … and now Jenny0 … coincidence? Yah, probably. (Mind you, creativity and imagination aren’t these guys’ strong suit, now are they?)
The journey continues. It’s illuminating seeing how they ‘work’. – Peter
This is very interesting Peter!
No need to guess who did these embarrassing things like this…
Yes. I said in ‘A little backlash?‘ that THEIR embarrassment and frustration would drive certain people to look for ‘dirt’ on me. They can’t find any, so it appears they’re making up thin nonsense like this ‘experiment’ to affect my online ‘reputation’ — to “smear the ‘white knight’ “.
Shallow. And revealing, I reckon. – P
I bet he is now holding crisis management talks with his bunch of bandits aka his lawyers to figure out how to make use of the legal terms in his agreements/contracts/dealings with his clients to wriggle himself out of such a humiliating mess.
That is what he is good at – saying nice things to you in person, and then when the time comes when his integrity is questioned – he will refer you to the Clause (ahem) bla, bla bla …
More fake identities from fake people on ‘internet marketing’-type sites …
These internet leprechauns and elves are, of course, leaving fingerprints all over the place. Interesting.
hollis.koizumi.securitycamerasystemcharlotte
iris.roussin.securitycamerasystemcharlotte
rosalyn.pregler.securitycamerasystemcharlotte
Gee, busy little internet people, huh? Look …
Clearly I’ve upset someone who wants to remain anonymous … someone who is just one fake user but wants to set up multiple fake ‘social arms’ … hmm. Someone Just. Like. This. Guy? …
What could POSSIBLY have motivated this fake ‘someone’ to go to such lengths, I wonder?
What a mystery. (snort)
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