Middlesbrough Web Consultancy Group AdWords SPAM Email

This unsolicited SPAM email screenshot from Web Consultancy Group Ltd was first uploaded on May 28th, 2017 at 02:35. The content of the post will have been updated multiple times since.

Note: Web Consultancy Group Ltd (company number 07924238) has been renamed to Web Consultancy Ltd and all ordinary shares are owned by Visibility Group Ltd (company number 08887771), all Visibility Group Ltd ordinary shares are owned by Stephen Hall who used to own all ordinary shares of DLH Web Consultancy Ltd (company number 07924238: closed) and Web Consultancy Ltd: accurate February 2020.

I received the SPAM email from Web Consultancy Group Ltd from Louise Murray on Monday, 27th March 2017. Accurate in May 2017.

I seem to get a lot of unsolicited SPAM emails from Middlesbrough based businesses. This one was related Search Advertising & Mobile Advertising.

Below is the full unsolicited SPAM email from Web Consultancy Group including all headers (nothing removed) I received in March 2017. If you have the knowledge to understand this, you’ll agree it’s an unsolicited SPAM email probably sent via the Interspire Email Marketing Software (note the unsubscribe link URL) which can send thousands of emails per campaign.

X-Account-Key: account4 X-UIDL: 0000eed34abbaf9d X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Mozilla-Keys: $label1 Return-Path: <bounce@webconsultancygroup.co.uk> X-Original-To: orders@google-adsense-templates.co.uk Delivered-To: orders.googleadsense@s166-62-84-189.secureserver.net Received: from webconsultancygroup.co.uk (mta1.webconsultancygroup.co.uk [62.75.217.190]) by s166-62-84-189.secureserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615DAC2303 for <orders@google-adsense-templates.co.uk>; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 04:53:44 -0700 (MST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=mail; d=webconsultancygroup.co.uk; h=To:Subject:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:MIME-Version:List-Unsubscribe:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; i=postmaster@webconsultancygroup.co.uk; bh=EE5eBUree7im1Sgjt16WeKinzhg=; b=URxl1gY05k0yCD4y8hZeXPEuvYHJHTKSwFeLY6BWzcCZ2YjDozLgOmqP7VEq35HGW2IVrCpIztiv yoxowAQRercBYc+r3SSvyD/W6RcUkbcwcWjyRpgsL+EChi3rCjlu+LOTeIXR+kwAAf2/U6AEJTne yP0Q/zd8vKiLSrJ7Ado= To: orders@google-adsense-templates.co.uk Subject: New Business Enquiry Message-ID: <c2b62871d2c9270a9f871ac0c9c449c2@webconsultancygroup.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:55:47 +0000 From: "Louise Murray" <louise@adwordscompany.uk> Reply-To: louise@adwordscompany.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer-LID: 15 List-Unsubscribe: <http://webconsultancygroup.co.uk/Interspire/unsubscribe.php?M=815577&C=abd2b70c1fad30cec4a59060da46c4ca&L=15&N=73> X-Mailer-RecptId: 815577 X-Mailer-SID: 73 X-Mailer-Sent-By: 1 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; charset="UTF-8"; boundary="b1_457d8bfe7bd3eea749c470970390fba5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 170326-0, 26/03/2017), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean --b1_457d8bfe7bd3eea749c470970390fba5 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello My name is Louise and I'm from Teesside. I'm confident in assuming you receive (and probably ignore) plenty of emails offering services similar to ours; this makes it very hard for me to stand out but I hope I will do by writing a personal email that makes sense. We are Google Partners that specialise in Search Advertising & Mobile Advertising. This means we really can generate new business for you online. You don't need to simply take my word for it either; go to www.google.com/partners and search for my business name. You'll find us. This means I really mean it when I say 'guarantee' first page of Google. I know many others make the same claim but most of the time they have nothing to back it up... If boosting your online presence is something you're interested in why not let us put together a free proposal for you? I understand if you are already using a similar service; we would be happy to review the work currently being done for you. Either way all new customers get £100 free credit to get you started. Louise Murray Web Consultancy Group Royal Middlehaven House Middlesbrough North Yorkshire TS2 1BB 01642 049 410 www.adwordscompany.uk We always strive to email businesses that we feel could benefit from our services; every now and again we email someone who's not interested and if that's the case with yourself please http://webconsultancygroup.co.uk/Interspire/unsubscribe.php?M=815577&C=abd2b70c1fad30cec4a59060da46c4ca&L=15&N=73 and your details will be blocked from our server permanently, you will not receive any future correspondence. --b1_457d8bfe7bd3eea749c470970390fba5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <style type="text/css"> body { font-weight: 300; font-size: 14px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif !important; } a { color: #006666 !important; } </style> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>New Enquiry</title> </head><body> Hello My name is Louise and I'm from Teesside. I'm confident in assuming you receive (and probably ignore) plenty of emails offering services similar to ours; this makes it very hard for me to stand out but I hope I will do by writing a personal email that makes sense. We are <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/partners/#a_profile;idtf=8580558394">Google Partners</a> that specialise in Search Advertising & Mobile Advertising. This means we really can generate new business for you online. You don't need to simply take my word for it either; go to <a href="https://www.google.com/partners/">www.google.com/partners</a> and search for my business name. You'll find us. This means I really mean it when I say 'guarantee' first page of Google. I know many others make the same claim but most of the time they have nothing to back it up... If boosting your online presence is something you're interested in why not let us put together a free proposal for you?. I understand if you are already using a similar service; we would be happy to review the work currently being done for you. Either way all new customers get £100 free credit to get you started. Kind Regards, -- <div style="font-size: 11px;">Louise Murray Web Consultancy Group Royal Middlehaven House Middlesbrough North Yorkshire TS2 1BB 01642 049 410 www.adwordscompany.uk</div> We always strive to email businesses that we feel could benefit from our services; every now and again we email someone who's not interested and if that's the case with yourself please <a href="http://webconsultancygroup.co.uk/Interspire/unsubscribe.php?M=815577&C=abd2b70c1fad30cec4a59060da46c4ca&L=15&N=73">unsubscribe</a> and your details will be blocked from our server permanently, you will not receive any future correspondence. <img src="http://webconsultancygroup.co.uk/Interspire/open.php?M=815577&L=15&N=73&F=H&image=.jpg" height="1" width="10"></body></html> --b1_457d8bfe7bd3eea749c470970390fba5--

And the just the text contents of the SPAM email:

email: louise@adwordscompany.uk
Subject : New Business Enquiry
Hello
My name is Louise and I’m from Teesside. I’m confident in assuming you receive (and probably ignore)
plenty of emails offering services similar to ours; this makes it very hard for me to stand out but
I hope I will do by writing a personal email that makes sense.
We are Google Partners that specialise in Search Advertising & Mobile Advertising. This means we
really can generate new business for you online. You don’t need to simply take my word for it either; go
to www.google.com/partners and search for my business name. You’ll find us.
This means I really mean it when I say ‘guarantee’ first page of Google. I know many others make the
same claim but most of the time they have nothing to back it up…
If boosting your online presence is something you’re interested in why not let us put together a free
proposal for you?.
I understand if you are already using a similar service; we would be happy to review the work currently
being done for you.
Either way all new customers get £100 free credit to get you started.
Kind Regards,
—
Louise Murray
Web Consultancy Group
Royal Middlehaven House
Middlesbrough
North Yorkshire
TS2 1BB
01642 049 410
www.adwordscompany.uk
We always strive to email businesses that we feel could benefit from our services; every now and again
we email someone who’s not interested and if that’s the case with yourself please unsubscribe and
your details will be blocked from our server permanently, you will not receive any future correspondence.

This was sent to one of my old email addresses attached to the domain which I haven’t used in a while. The email address only receives SPAM.

What I find amusing about the SPAM email is she seems to acknowledge it’s difficult to get a businesses attention via email, then lies by saying:

I’m confident in assuming you receive (and probably ignore) plenty of emails offering services similar to ours; this makes it very hard for me to stand out but I hope I will do by writing a personal email that makes sense.

This is NOT a personal email, if this was a personal email Louise Murray would have visited my domain google-adsense-templates.co.uk in March 2017 (the SPAM email was sent to orders@google-adsense-templates.co.uk, found the domain was 301 redirected to another domain stallion-theme.co.uk and would either have NOT sent any email at all or sent it to a @stallion-theme.co.uk email address.

A simple Google search for part of the text from the SPAM email led me to this webpage: https://www.eco-seo.com/number-one-in-google/ where another business received the same “personal email” from a Louise in Teesside. For the record I have no relationship with Eco SEO, I searched Google on the 21st February 2020 for “My name is Louise and I’m from Teesside.” (including the “speech marks” and the above URL is the 3rd Google results. Eco SEO is another business annoyed at the SPAM from Web Consultancy Group Ltd.

There’s another result https://pastebin.com/dCzQZRyF which is dated April 17th 2017 which has a copy of the same SPAM email. For the record I did NOT upload the email to Paste Bin, I add my reviews to my own websites.

google-adsense-templates.co.uk hadn’t had a website for years.

Louise Murray while representing Web Consultancy Group Ltd sent her “personal email” to an email address linked to a dead domain!

Louise Murray/Web Consultancy Group did NOT have a past business relationship with me.
Louise Murray/Web Consultancy Group did NOT have my permission to send me marketing emails.
Louise Murray/Web Consultancy Group sent me an unsolicited email which was not personal and shows all the signs it was a bulk email (they could have sent this to one million email addresses) sent by the Inspire Email Marketing Software.

Update May 2017 : This SPAM email was sent from the business Web Consultancy Group Ltd (https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07924238) located at 21 Gosford St, Middlesbrough, TS2 1BB.

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