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larkoagency.com – Beware a Banner Scam is going around!



This scammer claims he wants to place advertising on my site.


Hello,
Thanks for reply to our proposal!
I represent Larko 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: 160Ã--600, 240Ã--400, 300Ã--250, 336Ã--280, 468Ã--60, 728Ã--90.
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,
Eliott Arnaud.
site: Larko Agency
e-mail: earnaud@larkoagency.com
phone: + (0)9 78 63 25 00
Do not fall for this scam it smells really really fishy
………After a few mails this email came and then bells started to ring:
Hi!
Thanks for reply to our proposal!
We like your price.We would like to place 160Ã--600 banner
To pass to the banner control system follow the link http://webmaster.larkoagency.com
To enter use the following data:
login: dutchdomainer.net
password: QR0BH1B
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: Dutchdomainer). 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: Larko Agency /
To activate your site you have to enter the code: 65P-L14-PUG
What way of payment is suitable for you?


HIT ME A THANKS
#banner #scam
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    • Profile picture of the author damenchoy
      My company was approached by the same group of people inviting us to consider placing their ads on some of our managed websites.

      But actually, I think they are trying to place a Wordpress plugin on your site to take control of it.

      Beware of the scams

      Martin Dumont « Keep Safe On The Net
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    NOBODY will have you install a non standard plugin to display their ads. It is dumb and risky. After all, if YOU have to do it, everyone ELSE will also. I think real radio, flash, and java are ENOUGH!!!!!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author KJ Mayes
    Just had this email asking to display banner ads on one of my sites from ELIOTT ARNAUD.
    I decided to google him and its all a scam. Thanks for the heads up hocuspocus.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    So if you think they are scammers, why are you helping them by linking to their site in your post?
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    Just when you think you've got it all figured out, someone changes the rules.

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    • Profile picture of the author hocuspocus32
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      So if you think they are scammers, why are you helping them by linking to their site in your post?

      Its a copy of the email that they sent out, I am not linking anything
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      yolo


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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
        Originally Posted by hocuspocus32 View Post


        Its a copy of the email that they sent out, I am not linking anything
        There are several links in your post. The forum turns web address into links automatically. If you don't want to help the scammers out by giving them link juice and publicity, change the format of the web addresses. For example put spaces around the semi-colon:

        http : //www.somesite.com

        It breaks the link so they get nothing.
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        • Profile picture of the author hocuspocus32
          Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

          There are several links in your post. The forum turns web address into links automatically. If you don't want to help the scammers out by giving them link juice and publicity, change the format of the web addresses. For example put spaces around the semi-colon:

          http : //www.somesite.com

          It breaks the link so they get nothing.

          Ok I have edited it so that it dosent provide a backlink
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          yolo


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          • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
            Originally Posted by hocuspocus32 View Post

            Ok I have edited it so that it dosent provide a backlink
            Good man!
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          • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
            Originally Posted by hocuspocus32 View Post

            Ok I have edited it so that it dosent provide a backlink
            heh this lil convo you 2 just had, made me CHUCKLE heh!
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            • Profile picture of the author elitejmr
              I received a similar email yesterday. I hadn't seen these before so I'm glad I began researching it, and thanks so much for posting your own experiences.

              The name of the so-called representative in the email I received was "Samuel Charles" (scharles @ guraci .com), and he was a representative of Guraci Agency.

              I too replied with outrageous terms, so let's see how this knucklehead responds...
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  • Profile picture of the author russells
    I had the same email yesterday and sniffed it out immediately. To test him, I threw a price at him for $1000 per month and he agreed telling to go ahead, install the plugin and he'll make payment.

    The clincher here was that he never asked ONCE about how many UV the site gets, what the click-through rate is or are anything else.

    Not only that, the domain name he mentions expired yesterday so it's currently displaying a GoDaddy park page.

    Mr Arnaud -- you've been rumbled!

    ~Russ
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