Unethical link building company

[alexcruncha]

Just over 1 month back I got an email from this so called company:
www(dot)advertising-sites(dot)info

They are based in India and the person I was dealing with offered to build me gambling links cheaply. He gave me some example sites and I thought I would do a test and paid $80 for 17 links. He sent me the report before I paid and my links were all up on reasonable sites/blogs, some of which had PR of 3 and 4.

Then after 1 week I got an email asking if I wanted more links built and the prices went from a few dollars per link to $40 - $100+ per link. I then checked my links and noticed half of my links were gone.

I contacted him and had no reply so I kept on sending emails and got a wooley reply saying he would refund me and get my links up... Its been a month and still nothing. I just sent another email.

OK, the links were cheap but if I had of trusted him and paid a lot of money for many links I would have been shafted (excuse the expression).

Just wanted to warn others about this company. I since keep getting emails from his colleague offering me link building and other services... I must be on their email database.

Does anyone else have such experience?

[alexcruncha]

I justed checked the WHOIS record for their claimed existing clients and they are either registered in India or their WHOIS records are blank but all have the same NS records

[universal4]

If the domains are coms, nets or one of a few other extensions their whois data can NOT be blamk.

It can be hidden through a service but it can NOT be blank.

Please pm me the domains in question.

Rick
Universal4

[alexcruncha]

I PM'ed you the details.. OK they are not exactly blank there is a registrants name which is a URL and the nameservers.

At first it does seem like no details when I checked with whois.domaintools.com but I investigated further with WHOIS.net which brought up GoDaddy texts but still no name and address... then I noticed a link that took me to GoDaddy's own WHOIS where I found more info.... so Rick you are right they are not blank.

But the point is the clients they are claiming and have quotes for on their website are 4 websites all registered by the same person in the same way, all in India where this rogue company is based... and incidentally are where my links have been placed when I paid them.