Comments on: Jim Mirkalami, The Lurking Spammer

By: Luke Welling

Luke Welling — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:08:52 +0000

Yep, I am getting fan mail from him too.

The original email and follow-ups are up on http://lukewelling.com if you want to see how it progresses

By: Sujoy

Sujoy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:39:25 +0000

Apparently I received a mail from a certain Jim Mirkalami regarding removal of the post coz it maligns his name and identity. I tried replying to him, but the mail couldn’t get through.

Here’s the post where I have reported all of this . I guess this is another attempt of yet another spammer or may be the same. Did you get any of these?

Best,
Sujoy

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:45:35 +0000

Luke,

Funny you mention that, when I first started looking into it - I noticed a lot of bad press regarding the name. At the time, I didn’t look any further and thought the liklihood that it’d be the same person were slim.

After reading your thoughts on the matter though, I think you could have very well hit the nail on the head.

You have to admire the tactics used to remove the bad press though, heh.

Al.

By: Luke Welling

Luke Welling — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:30:05 +0000

I have a different theory. I think he is using SEO techniques to try to make bad press about him and his business harder to find in google.

When you search for his name, he would rather you find junk blog comments than stories like this:
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=388e5362-8c86-4a9b-abf1-65c5bd8dd6be

I wrote more about it here:
http://lukewelling.com/2008/02/12/sweeping-bad-press-under-the-rug-using-seo/

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:07:24 +0000

Ahhhhh Jim - I thought I was the only one. I feel used now LOL.

Thanks for posting this though I didn’t quite trust Mr Mirkalami’s comment and this helps me banish him to the spam folder.