Media Press Release Part 2
March 5, 2006
Several people at SES mentioned how funny they thought my email from my good blog spamming buddy David (from Media Press Release) was.
Well, guess what?….. He’s back for more!
(warning: put the coffee down before reading)
David wrote:
Hi Greg,I still email you again, but this is the end of emails. I will not email you again, and I will go to the facts. You want WAR your will get a LEGAL WAR.
I saw you still IGNORE my advices to remove all content from this offending page http://blogging.webguerrilla.com/blog-spamming-part-2/
You have 24 hours to remove your post, if not, we will contact GOOGLE ADSENSE to close your google adsense account and report to GOOGLE search about your offending material. I don’t want to report this problem, I dont want to make you hurt, never, far away this from my hearth. But your post hurts media-press-release.com reputation, and I dont want to exist this kind of offending articles about us. I dont want to close you Adsense account and start revenuew from your only clients for SEO.
Please remove your post
I request again a favor to remove your post in 24 hours, tomorrow morning 10 GMT AM, I will review again your post from http://blogging.webguerrilla.com/blog-spamming-part-2/
Please be advised to listen me this last time and close your post. I reques a last time a favour from you, Greg Boser! I will not email you again
Many thanks,
Legal Department
www.media-press-release.com
legal@media-press-release.com
Website: http://blogging.webguerrilla.com/blog-spamming-part-2/
IP: 86.105.70.148
Now, I hadn’t originally planned to blog this response. David is in Romania and English obviously isn’t his first language. But just because he struggles writing in English doesn’t necessarily mean that he doesn’t have some type of valid complaint. So I figured I would just wait to hear from MPR’s California law firm. After all, one of my business partners is a California law firm. I figured I could walk down to their office and we could all have a conference call to straighten everything out.
But then I got this:
Brian Williams wrote:
Hi Greg Boser,Has been brought to my attention that you are using www.media-press-release.com to spam our site and infrige our brand name. I kindly suggest you to remove any parts of mention for www.media-press-release.com from this par of your site
http://blogging.webguerrilla.com/blog-spamming-part-2/
I hope to understand me and this will not issue in difficulties parts to start a legal action.
Awaiting your reply.
Many thanks,
Brian Williams, California Lawyer
www.media-press-release.com
legal@media-press-release.com
Website: http://blogging.webguerrilla.com/blog-spamming-part-2/
IP: 86.105.70.148
I guess it’s possible that there really is a lawyer in California named Brian Williams, (who happens to be vacationing in Romania) but I doubt he actually sent me this email. I could be wrong, but it reads to me like it might have actually been written by David. (Maybe he was watching NBC nightly news on cable while he was in front of his computer?)
I can’t help but feel bad for a guy who hasn’t figured out that every silly email he sends me will result in yet another web page being created that makes Media Press Release look stupid. The only thing he could do to make it worse is actually sue me. If he does that, it becomes a mainstream story.
And if that were to happen, David would have to start explaining things like how it is that the blog spammer that hit my site happened to be coming from the same IP that both he and his California lawyer use. Or why it is that he used an excerpt from Greg Hartnett’s post even though Greg has never heard of, let alone used MPR to handle BOTW press releases.
He would also have to explain why it is that there are dozens of examples of him using the same technique contained in his 4600 backlinks.
(Including examples on the ask.com blog, Lee Oden’s blog and Cnet)
What David really needs to learn from all this is that you never want to draw unwanted attention to yourself when you are playing on the dark side. When you aggressively build links using your own IP, you lose the ability to deny your involvement. And that’s never a good place to be in when you get outted. The only thing you can do in that situation is shut up and take it like a man.
Comments
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… and mend his ways.
Ha, give ‘em hell Greg. I removed the links from their post and am checking how many others they’ve made.
Greg,
this still is not right!
Look at the use of language, it is bad but amusingly so, as though someone is taking the piss.
Some of the words are laughable but the punctuation is excellent, commas etc were few people would use them.
You mention him being in Romania and English being a second language but …
David Hay sounds about as Anglo-Saxon a name as you can get.
Also amusing, a lawyer signing off as ‘California Lawyer’
How about a quick tutorial on Webmaster Radio… Blog Spam 101. I’m sure David’s not the only one who could use some good solid advice.
Hi, Greg!
Hopefully, we will open the eyes of Romanians to this kind of fraud. I have written a post about this matter on my site (the link is here, in Romanian), which is targeted to beginner SEOs and those who want to understand what is all about. Hopefully this post will attract the attention.
We already have a hard time starting a legitimate business on the internet, with Romanians being banned from PayPal and Commission Junction because of the frauds that Romanians pulled, now we will have a King’s Joster reputation.
Thanks for the heads up
Wait, Boser - did the response actually say “Brian Williams, CALIFORNIA LAWYER”? Please, please tell me it didn’t. LMAO. Hahahahahahahha.
I’m glad I put down my soda.
Hey Greg -
This occurrence is sooooo funny. I can’t believe the man literally continues to contact you. After all, he should have realized by now that any email he sends to you is going to end up on your blog. The fact that he keeps sending them only makes matters worse for him.
This post has really made my day. Thanks for sharing!
damn losers. if they don’t want bad things, dont do bad things lol
I hope you are prepared for WAR. This “Brian Williams CALIFORNIA LAWYER” sounds pretty legit. The only thing more hilarious than someone trying to use “legal language” and butchering it is a Romanian using legal language and butchering it. Thanks for Sharing Greg! I needed a good laugh!!
This digusts me in the fact that at Webmasterworld and SES Conferences, speakers are citing the importance of press releases and how they are a top way to publicize your website.
I have spent endless hours writing press releases that never really show up anywhere and do not get me more traffic.
Now it all is so clear. These characters like David (aka California Lawyer), simply create these websites that end of wasting webmasters time, when we are legitimately trying to publicize our websites on a limited budget (actually NO budget).
Subtitle of post: “Brand death in action”.
OMG these people are hysterical!
I’m in tears over here from laughing so hard.
My favorite is “we will contact GOOGLE ADSENSE to close your google adsense account and report to GOOGLE search about your offending material.”
Google cares about this WHY?
Besides, that sounds like a threat and anyone serious about starting any legal action should be smart enough not to use threats as they’ve just opened themselves up for actionable items.
Oh man, my side hurts, too funny.
You weren’t joking about putting down your coffee cup before reading this - hilarious!
With lawyers and Romania involved, there has got to be a vampire joke in there somewhere …
Looking forward to Part 3.
Thank you for posting emails, Greg.
There is no such thing as a bad press
Ok, I am definately glad I heeded your warning and put down my coffee before reading that one… heh.
Well, me being one for taking the piss out of twits like this, I must help you share this to the world Greg, and do my part for humanities sake… (bulk sarcasm for MPR). Hey MRP, if you read this, I don’t use adsense, so what are you going to threaten me with??? Idiots…
Good stuff Greg - it’s nice to see somebody follow up and challenge these characters so cleverly.
Great humour. It reminds me of a Basil Fawlty thing.
I would also imagine that impersonating a Californian Lawyer is illegal, even if he’s fictional or not. Is it not just like impersonating a policeman?
Sigh.. What a wonderful world we live in. It’s embarrasing reading the stuff this guy tries to pull off. Where do they get it from?
I personally don’t know of any lawyers that routinely use email to begin with!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Webguerrilla
I just found your site looking up media-press-release.com
It is actually for sale at the moment, so either its to fund his litigation against you, or you have scared him off.
Q, could this brand be rebuilt with a new owner or is the damage too great?
Have a great day,
Phillip
I am against blog spam, especially if you say the culprit took an exact comment from another blog while appending a backlink with press release as the anchor text back to his domain with nothing pertaining to the blog article. Pretty smart process, until they got caught.
Checking out MRP’s website, it looks very good and legitimate. They should never have risked backlink building with automated blog spam. That’s where a lot of people get into trouble with automation, they don’t know when to stop and turn communities like myspace into a wasteland of marketers with automated processes offered by badderadder, and adderrobot (currently no longer available).
As hard as it is to get a decent backlink from blog comments these days, with a majority of spammers targeting pharmacy and gambling related keywords. I have come to believe that if the blog comments have something valuable to contribute to the current blog entry, then reward the contributors with a full link without the “no-follow” attributes. There has been a lot of articles written in support of this theory, unless the blog is not moderated in good measure.