Can I Trust This Agency? Or Are They Just Trying To STEAL Something From Me?

Got the same email.

Hello,

Thanks for reply to our proposal!

I represent Izida Agency. At the moment we are preparing an advertising campaign for Lacoste Company (it is a French company producing clothes, footwear, perfumery etc.) We already have designed banners for the campaign, they are the following sizes: 160x600, 240x400, 300x250, 336x280, 468x60, 728x90.
What can be your price for one banner (banner should appear at ALL pages of your site) of abovementioned sizes (please specify the place for the banner - top, bottom, left, right)? Please mention a normal link for banner, without javascript code and set prices in US dollars per month.

Best regards,
Mathis Gaillard.
site: Izida Agency
e-mail: mgaillard@izidaagency.com
phone: + (0)9 78 62 91 00




So this looks like a scam because the site they wanted to "advertise" was one of my sites that I left to expire. It barely gets 20 visitors a day. I would figure a company like Lacoste would want a site with with exponentially more traffic.

I would stay away from this for sure ...

I was going to go with a script like that but I was just thinking of just messing with him or ignoring him entirely.

I might go with this one as well....

Dear Mathis,

In regards to plugins there will be a an extra fee do to our strict policy. The added fee would be $1,000/month blah blah blah...

I wanted to see if they would agree, if they did then you can tell they are just full of it because top agency only pay that amount for websites that bring in 100,000 or more visitors a month

Lol I guess not. I just typed in the url of the agency trying to find some background on them.

Thank you for your quick research .

I will definitely add my 2 cents on the link you get me. Thank you again!

Got the same email from a Oscar Meunier from a kervelagency.com.

I looked up the name oscar meunier and looks like he's something to do with Sherlock Holmes

I don't think I will be taking him up on his offer.

Rosetrees, I was wondering the same thing ... also why would anyone even consider the thought of allowing a strange plug in to be placed on their sites????

Has common sense gone out the window?

Constance

Glad I found this, looks like hes up to his old tricks with a different name and agency. Looks like he got so eager he forgot his signature on the last one:

Hello,

Thanks for reply to our proposal!

I represent Kara Agency. At the moment we are preparing an advertising campaign for Lacoste Company (it is a French company producing clothes, footwear, perfumery etc.) We already have designed banners for the campaign, they are the following sizes: 160x600, 240x400, 300x250, 336x280, 468x60, 728x90.
What can be your price for one banner (banner should appear at ALL pages of your site) of abovementioned sizes (please specify the place for the banner - top, bottom, left, right)? Please mention a normal link for banner, without javascript code and set prices in US dollars per month.

Best regards,
Noa Morin.
site: Kara Agency
e-mail: nmorin (at) karaagency .com
phone: + (0)9 78 62 31 00

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Hi!

Thanks for reply to our proposal!
We like your price.We would like to place 728*90 banner.

To pass to the banner control system follow the link http: (slash) (slash) webmaster (dot) karaagency (dot) com
To enter use the following data:

login: <REDACTED>
password: <REDACTED>


You should install and activate the plugin in order to display advertisement. Before making payment, advertiser must approve location of the banner. The banner will be shown on your site when you add special code to your web- address (for example: <REDACTED>). It means, that visitors will see the banner only if it is approved and payment made.

To get installation instruction for your site type pass to: Kara Agency /
To activate your site you have to enter the code: <REDACTED>


What way of payment is suitable for you?

Theres no better way for a shadow colored hatter to farm out their spam than to piggy back on someone elses account and use it like a proxy. You can guarentee, anyone who activates that plug-in will lose all their bandwidth allowence because this will be a scripted spam tool. It just goes to show theres some EVIL people out there with ZERO conscious because the consequences for each victim could be enormous, it could literally destroy a website overnight. Its shocking because these people are hunting victims with spam tactics so I dread to think what their end goal is. Off the top of my head it could be anything from stealing mailing lists for more spam or like I said before, using your host as a proxy to deliver more spam.

Its probably a pretty ingenius little system that grows exponentially and ends up earning the hacker thousands on auto-pilot, probably connected to organised crime I bet. Can you imagine the number of poor souls who probably fall for it, even some people on here nearly did so that must tell you something.

It makes me so angry because its these types of people that are going to end up killing the free internet as we know it. 10 years from now and it'll be like a highstreet or a fortune 500 haven because all of us lesser souls will end up getting government legistlated off the public spaces.