Gov Benefaction Scam
Pretty neat (in an evil way) SEO spam making the rounds on craigslist at the moment…
1. Someone posts an ad on craigslist without using the anonymous email option
2. They start getting emails claiming they can get free/easy money from the government by Googling “Gov Benefaction” for more information.
3. All of the sites currently in the top of the results in Google for that term are controlled by one guy who’s using those sites to promote a typical Gov Grant scam.
So… The spammer simply optimized a handful of sites to rank for a term that had zero competition, once ranked in the top spots he began spamming away without any fears of getting blocked by spam filters since he doesn’t use any URLs in those emails. Pretty neat. I imagine we will be seeing a lot more of this in the future.