Dear webmasters and bloggers. Be ALERT!
A fake banner Ad Email scam is taking rounds these days.
An unknown person named Eva Goldberg of JPPConsulting.net is offering banner Ad on websites and blogs for a whooping $450 – $950/month. Lots of bloggers are getting this fake offer in their Email Inbox everyday.
Interestingly, the scammer is sending this Email to blog owners of every niche. Irrespective of reputation, traffic and content quality. There are high chances of newbie bloggers falling in to this trap, with such a lucrative offer.
Fake Email from Eva Goldberg
What the Email says? Check it out below -
From: Eva Goldberg
Subject: Banner on your website
Hello!
My name is Eva Goldberg, representing the advertising department of the JPP Consulting company. We are interested to place an ad (banner), of your choice, on your website.
Design and sizes can be seen on our website at www.jppconsulting.net/id_e8608/
Depending on the banner size you choose we can pay between $450 – $950/month.If you are interested please let me hear from you.
King Regards,
Eva Goldberg
Why JPPConsulting.net is Fake
1. The website is registered on June 08, 2012 and expires on June 08, 2013 according to Who.is. Can you believe a website who is ready to pay you 950 US$ /month for banner Ad, and registered for such a short period of time? Most reputed companies register their domain names for multiple years.
2. You need to install Java applet on your PC to see their website. There is a series of Java vulnerabilities going around in online world these days.
3. The site JPPConsulting.net is looking fake, and without much information.
4. They are sending millions of Emails to webmasters of all niches, irrespective of quality and traffic level.
What should be your Action
- Disregard this fake Email.
- If you have visited the site, don’t install the Java applet it requests you to do.
- If you installed the Java applet and responded the Email also, don’t proceed further. Next they will tell you to install a software or a plugin kind of thing – A sure-shot recipe to get your blog hacked
NEWS: As of now, no webmaster or blogger openly reported about any damage or hacking of their site due to this scam. Although millions of webmasters have been getting this Email everyday.
Have you got this Fake Email recently? Do share your experience in the comments below.
About Nandita B.
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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Thanks a lot for sharing it. Now a days even the fake mails are getting on to the inboxes without being in spam boxes.
Rajkumar Jonnala recently posted…Things to do in Kingston upon Hull
Thanks for sharing this. And also letting other knows about that kind of scam.
Interesting info,actually i also not believed on such sacammers,they not only hack your blog but may also your email data and your pc and then you will get a HUGE LOSS instead of getting HUGE PROFIT.
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Thanx For Sharing this Aweosome post. i have also recieved these types of emails for banner ads and high pr backlinks in my inbox . but actually i also not believed on such types of scammers.
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Hey Nandita, Thanks a lot for letting us know about this scam
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Hello, Nandita!
Sorry for my bad English. My name is Yuriy. I am from Ukraine and I also received this letter from Eva Goldberg. Thank you for warning.
Thank god I googled first. Thank you too for making this post
Hi there,
Thx for this warning, i got a letter too from this “dear Mrs. Goldberg” … But became naturally suspicious when I had to install an Java applet to view their website, which by the way doesn’t contain any relevant info. I reply “her” email with a link to this Warning.
Beware out there and Share this warning !!!
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This is what I got this morning, using a different name.
Hello!
My name is Liza Mecklenburg, representing the advertising department of the JPP Consulting company. We are interested to place an ad (banner), of your choice, on your website.
Design and sizes can be seen on our website at http://www.eandjconsulting.net/id_8d7f6/
Depending on the banner size you choose we can pay up to US$750/month.
If you are interested please let me hear from you.
Kind Regards,
Liza Mecklenburg
liza.mecklenburg@eandjconsulting.net
I feel cheated – she only offered up to $750 – must be the economy.
I also received the above e-mail. Thank you for putting the word out that this is fake. I really appreciate it! What tipped me off was the letter’s conclusion, “Kind Regards.” It is used by many e-mail spammers telling me I won the International Lottery, etc. May God Bless you!
Mommacat
Спасибо за предупреждение. Сегодня получил подобный E-mail от Liza.
Подозрительно:
1. Высокая цена за баннер 750$
2. Сайт рекламодателя недавно создан.
3. Предложение для веб-мастера не зависит от тематики сайта, страны, посещаемости и известности.
4. Нет отзывов о данном сайте.
5. Домен зарегистрирован в США, а сервис – Czech Republic
6. Google до сих пор не сканировал его на вирусы.
————— translation ———-
Thanks for the warning. Today I received a similar E-mail from Liza.
suspicious:
1. The high price of $ 750 per banner
2. Advertiser’s site recently created.
3. Offer for webmasters not depends on the subject site, the country, attendance and popularity.
4. No comments on this site.
5. The domain is registered in the United States, and the service – Czech Republic
6. Google has not yet been scanned for viruses.
Here is the email is just received -
From:
Liza Mecklenburg
liza.mecklenburg@eandjconsulting.net
Message:
Hello!
My name is Liza Mecklenburg, representing the advertising department
of the JPP Consulting company. We are interested to place an ad
(banner), of your choice, on your website.
Design and sizes can be seen on our website at
http://www.eandjconsulting.net/id_1fc80/
Depending on the banner size you choose we can pay up to
US$750/month.
If you are interested please let me hear from you.
Kind Regards,
Liza Mecklenburg
liza.mecklenburg@eandjconsulting.net
Ohh! Glad I googled it first! I just received this email now and thank you for sharing this post.
One of our clients received this email today. Definitely don’t download any “plugins” or “software” from any company you don’t know. I’m surprised their email accounts haven’t been blacklisted.
Haha this evening I received this:
“Hello! My name is Liza Mecklenburg, representing the advertising department of the JPP Consulting company. We are interested to place an ad (banner), of your choice, on your website. Design and sizes can be seen on our website at http://www.eandjconsulting.net/id_8977e/ Depending on the banner size you choose we can pay up to US$750/month. If you are interested please let me hear from you. Kind Regards, Liza Mecklenburg liza.mecklenburg@eandjconsulting.net”
I was really suspicious of this email that I decided to Google it up and found this post. My initial thought was, “this company must be bleeding generous/rich enough to put their banner on a 2-month old website for USD750 per month. LOL
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Yup, it’s a scam. Got the same email in my inbox this morning. Checked out the website and saw the java download. Nope!
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Thanks for posting this!! I am sure I would have Googled and checked it out, but as a newer blogger, I would have been pretty excited to see something like this in my email!
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Thank you, I googled first, goodness it was really tempting.
Me too I received a similar fake email: In this case is one such “Liza Mecklenburg” the name of the scammer!
Thanks a lot for this info. I also received this email wriiten by Liza Mecklenburg.
I just got this email and blogged about it too. Then found you guys! Seems that a lot of people have already been caught by this one. Crazy stuff.
I use Chrome and have set Java to need permission to run. I wonder how many people do not do that, and open the link?
Jon Wade recently posted…Eandjconsulting.net Offer Banner On Your Website for $750 / mo
sent to my email too… with name Liza Mecklenburg. I almost install the Java. Fortunately there’s pop up notification. Surely it is to good to be true you know.. 750 a month!!
I just got the same email this morning. No chance anyone would offer me $750 for a month, let alone an entire year on the lower quality site they contacted me thru. Especially without any traffic proof. Too good to be true, it usually is.
Is there anything we can do to report this site and get it taken down/ de-indexed? I would hope that when someone looks up the scammers site or email pages like this show up.
I visited the page, but didnt run the java program, am doing a virus scan just to be safe however. I also sent them a real nasty reply, which I am sure will be ignored anyways xD
Its a fake. Don’t believe it, even I too got the same mail from Lisa.
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OMG!! Today I got a mail from same .company One of my friends said it was fake and he too received the same mail for 4 if his blogs.
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Hi, I just got one too. Unfortunatelly I installed the Java aplet but that’s all – did not respod to the acutal email. Checked the references and found your website. Thanks for posting this important message!
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Just today morning I got a message from “Liza Mecklenburg” and was very shocked & surprise when i saw the ads request of $700. Is that a joke ?, i asked to myself. And so i thought to Google the name, and hell yeah m saved, saved from spam..!
Thanks @ Nandita B
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Thanks for the warning. I figured it was too good to be true. I received the Liza Mecklenberg variety of this scam
Ira
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Received the Liza Mecklenberg scam but thatnks to Gmail it went directly to my spam folder. It’s indeed to good to be true.
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Received the Liza Mecklenberg scam but thatnks to Gmail it went directly to my spam folder. It’s indeed to good to be true.
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