A few days ago, I called the phone number of an illegal snipe advertisement placed near Hiawatha and Hwy 62. Today, I got a call back after leaving a voicemail. The caller: Mr. Jim Freddie Fowler calling from the number 651-633-0175. I told him that I had called about the signs he has been spamming [...]
Guess who’s still littering the City of Minneapolis with illegal snipe advertising? Jesse Olson! You may remember real estate agent Jesse Olson from a May 2010 Faces of Snipe. In fact, Jesse Olson was the very first illegal advertiser highlighted in Faces of Snipe. Apparently, Jesse didn’t get the message. I talked to Jesse tonight, [...]
A friend of mine recently had her Facebook account hacked. The hacker then started contacting her friends through Facebook Chat with a request to have money sent to her through Western Union. In a nutshell, the person made up a story that she was stuck in London with her family, had been mugged, and needed [...]
Here’s a little update on the Minneapolis snipe sign scene. As a reminder, snipe signs are the illegally placed ads we often see posted around town on light poles or planted on boulevards. 1. Aric at Hardest Working Lazy Guy has been having some fun with a local fitness sign spammer, Sgt. Peterson. Aric documents [...]
Dr. Michael Dorfman of Associated Chiropractic Clinics & Medical Centers in Detroit, Allen Park, Southfield, and Waterford, MI appears to have hired the wrong SEO to do link building for his website, associatedclinics.com. How else can one explain comments like this on 5 year old blog post on this site: What are the issues here? [...]
Did you know that revenues from the Minnesota Lottery are being used to spam local bloggers? Here’s an example comment that was dropped on my post about Groupon.com: 1st sentence: On topic. 2nd sentence: transition. 3rd sentence and beyond: an advertisement and a link to the MN Lottery’s website. Notice that the comment author is [...]
I’ve never encountered this form of blog comment spam before: The lower of the two comments comes from a real Amanda. The upper comment took Amanda’s comment, added two more sentences, changed Amanda’s commenter URL, then reposted the comment under Amanda’s name. That’s some sneaky stuff. The commenter and comment look familiar, which may cause [...]
My dislike of unsolicited print marketing messages delivered to my home isn’t limited to the yellow pages. However, unlike the yellow pages, most direct marketers are perfectly willing to allow you to unsubscribe from their mailing lists since they’re smart enough to realize that it’s tough to sell something to someone who doesn’t want your [...]
It looks like the standards are painfully low for Metromix account registration. For example, a comment spammer hitting this site is trying to drive traffic to a profile page on the Chicago Metromix site: This Metromix user happens to go by the name, “The Lowest Prices on Viagra.” This account was set up in February, [...]
A Deets reader in West St. Paul, Dylan, sent in before and after photos from a neighbor’s vacant home that has been trashed by the StarTribune and our local Yellow Pages companies. Here’s the before shot: And after Dylan decided to clean up after the StarTribune and local Yellow Pages companies, he had an entire [...]
