Email greeting me with 'Hey,' and offering seo services asking to give them my website url link (did you not find me on google?) and phone number to set up an appt.
No thanks Savi Singh (from an outlook email), if that is your real name. This person probably has loads of different fake names and email addresses.
As for seo help ... nay (to rhyme with and match the casual tone of his or her hey).
Another common one is an email saying your website domain is expiring/has expired.
Nice try 🤨
@floi not so far no. I have had unwelcome emails from agencies I would not touch with a barge pole but they came from their own email addresses. One of these agencies had a gmail address but that was their choice of official email service, bizarrely.
I have heard of translators complain about emails purporting to be from big agencies but the email addresses were slightly different or completely unconnected. It would be clear that it was not the real agency sending them.
@floi unfortunately being on a public list, even on the directory of a translation association's website, means unwelcome attention from all sorts, including established but questionable #xl8 and/or 1nt agencies, as I have found.
This Singh person didn't mention translation. They were just offering seo services I don't need or want. They said they googled me but that sounds too random and therefore dodgy. Even if they were in Ireland, so easier to keep an eye on, I would not give them a try.
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