Thursday, February 11, 2010

Mizzen Media Management InstaConversions Scam Alert

If you have received a spam message from the company Mizzen Media Management, website http://mizzenmedia.com or http://instaconversions.mizzenmedia.com or Joanna Wilcox at Mizzen Media Management, beware of these scam artists!

They go around sending you tons of unsolicited junk mail and they won't stop! They flood you with junk mail to your server day and night. When you block them, they expeditiously change their e-mail address from which they spam you and continue their fraudulent deceptive practices. The worst thing is that Mizzen Media Management is located in Canada, meaning that they don't fall under the FTC laws and you can't report them to FTC for that reason. FTC does not have jurisdiction to prosecute these crooks!

Here are three e-mails I received from Mizzen Media Management in less than 24 hours. And there was no way to block them from sending me any more spam messages!

Hello Marketing Manager,

My name is Joanna and I am a merchant manager at Mizzen Media Management; our company specializes in providing performance based solutions to merchants in order to increase their online sales.

I will be brief. We have developed a program named InstaConversions (http://instaconversions.mizzenmedia.com) whereby a sophisticated automated sales personality we call 'Summer' appears when a potential customer is about to exit your site (essentially a lost sale). Summer answers questions, highlights discounts and/or incentives, and then guides the customer back to your sales page. We have found that companies that incorporate Summer into their websites typically see a 10%-30% increase in their overall conversions.

InstaConversions is management intensive on our end since our agent and her chat logs are monitored DAILY to fully customize her responses to your unique client base. Given this, we have only made it available to select merchants, however I have looked closely at your website and believe that due to the volume of visitors and the quality of your sales page that it would be a great fit for our InstaConversions program.

Pricing is based purely on performance. Mizzen Media either joins your current affiliate program or is paid a flat fee per sale. There are no set up or monthly fees and a performance model ensures we are highly motivated to generate the most sales possible.

Our website outlining the program in full can be found at: http://instaconversions.mizzenmediacom

I'd be pleased to answer any questions you may have - please give me a call at 1 800 483 0569 or email me to get the ball rolling.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

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Joanna Wilcox
Marketing Associate
Mizzen Media Management
http://mizzenmedia.com
T: 1 800 483 0569
F: 1 800 393 5423


p.s.
We have a demo version of Summer's interactions and we encourage you to have a look and see how attractive and professional our automated sales person would look on



Hello Marketing Manager of your site,

I am following up on an email I sent recently regarding our InstaConversions automated sales personality and the potential benefits it could bring to your company. I have analyzed and verified that your website would be an excellent fit for our program, and am eager to discuss this potential collaboration with you.

Our website (http://instaconversions.com) has a full description of the the program, as well as a demo version of Summer's interactions – we encourage you to have a look to see how professional our automated sales person could look on your site.

Please feel free to email anytime, or simply give me a call at 1 800 483 0569 and I can answer any questions to help get you started.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

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Joanna Wilcox
Marketing Associate
Mizzen Media Management
http://mizzenmedia.com
T: 1 800 483 0569
F: 1 800 393 5423




Hello Marketing Manager,

I am following up on my two previous emails regarding our InstaConversions program.

As I mentioned earlier, since our model is very management intensive and compensation is based solely on performance, we are very selective in who we approach to collaborate with. Your particular company appears to meet our criteria very nicely and we are keen to discuss this potential partnership further.

Hard numbers speak volumes, and we find that almost instantly InstaConversions tends to increase our clients sales by 10-30%. Please give me a call at 1 800 483 0569 - I'd love to spend some time explaining how our exciting program can yield the same great results for


Yours sincerely,

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Joanna Wilcox
Marketing Associate
Mizzen Media Management
http://mizzenmedia.com
T: 1 800 483 0569
F: 1 800 393 5423


p.s.
an interactive demo of our automated sales personality 'Summer' can be seen at instaconversions.com

After the first message I was irritated. We all hate spam, but can't avoid it once in a while. Apparently they got my e-mail address from one of my websites. Don't know if they used a piece of software that gathers e-mail addresses from websites or someone went to my site in person.

I marked the message from Mizzen Media Management as spam and figured they'd leave me alone at this point.

But as you can see, another message came in almost the same day, or the following day.

I blacklisted joanna@mizzenmedia.com and indicated that I want all future e-mail coming from this e-mail address to be deleted immediately. Yet, the same day I received a third e-mail from the same spammer. I don't know what to do at this point!

What can I do to prevent future spam from these con artists Mizzen Media Management, http://mizzenmedia.com, and http://instaconversions.mizzenmedia.com? Any advice? It is clear that Mizzen Media Management is breaking consumer laws, anti-spam law, and possibly other conventions but if they are in Canada, they are unreachable? I checked their IP address 208.91.131.171 and it appears that this IP address is on multiple lists that report spammers on the Internet, so clearly there are a lot of spam complains against Mizzen Media Management. What can I do as a consumer to protect myself from Mizzen Media Management? Any advice and help is greatly appreciated! Please leave your comment.

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