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In researching spam posted to the Freakipedia links to lease-a-seo.com started cropping up. It looks like lease-a-seo.com may be the organization responsible for spamming the Freakipedia. A list of links being spammed and some detail on those sites can be found in the Pillsm.com article.

Research shows multiple company names affiliated with this post spammer, a typical tactic of con artists. In addition to link spamming such as what's been used to attack the Freakipedia, it looks like the spammers are also engaging in wire fraud with a fake "mystery shopper" scam. In this scam they send a fake check to a "mystery shopper" and have them send back a portion of the money they THINK is being deposited.

=DDOS attack against wickedfire.com=

Lease-a-seo.com and Jest Staffel were implicated in a May, 2011 DDOS attack against wickedfire.com. If the information at wickedfire.com is accurate Staffel used his corporate servers to launch the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack.

=Use of Sock Puppets= The Lease-a-seo.com strategy of using sock puppet accounts for Wiki vandalism appears to be a pattern. It's alleged Jest Staffel used multiple usernames to attack a competitor on wickedfire.com

=Scamtracers=

The Scamtracers review of lease-a-sec.com has the following report:

''Our company bought multiple packages from lease-a-seo.com for search engine optimization. The owner of the company, Jest Staffel, was very competent of what we were looking for. Everything started off just fine. We signed the contract, and paid our 4500.00 for 4 packages. The deadline we agreed on was 2 weeks. 7 weeks later after numerous attempts to get a hold of Jest Staffel, our reports were sent. After going through the reports, we could tell there was some serious problems. All of our reports had numerous broken links. Page rank was not correct based on the package we bought. On top of that, our links were placed on highly spammed websites, which included viagra links, illegal prescription drugs, etc. Our rankings in google dropped off the map. After asking for our links to be taken down and for a refund, we were unable to communicate with lease-a-seo.com, and still have not received any follow up about our refund - this has been ongoing for 3 weeks now. STAY FAR AWAY FROM LEASE-A-SEO.COM.''

The above report is consistent with what's been seen of the spam being posted to Freakipedia and the Wikis to which that spam often links.

=Jest Staffel= The Scamtracers review gave us the name Jest Staffel. The site seomoz.org also connects the name Jest Staffel to the URL Lease-a-seo.com. Like the domain registration for seomoz.org gives the Philippines as the site's location.

Contact information
His Facebook claims he Lives in Davao City and is from Alexandria, Egypt

He has a twitter account

Jest's profile on seomoz.org makes the following claims:

Full Name: 	Jest Staffel Nickname: 	jest Email: 	nanofuse@googlemail.com Title: 	CEO Company: 	Lease A SEO Type of work: 	Business Owner Location: 	Davao Phillipines Favorite Thing About SEO: 	ranking Time Spent on SEO: 	>50 hours/week Bio: 	bla bla Blog Bio: 	lease-a-seo.com/blog Additional Contact Info:	jest.staffel (skype) Favorite Topics: 	Link Building, Search Engine Trends

His linkedin page also lists him as the CEO for StaffelSEO and makes the following claims about his experience and education:

Alleged work experince and education
Jest Staffel's Experience Executive manager of SEO Lease-a-seo.com

Privately Held; Online Media industry

August 2006 – Present (5 years 2 months) CEO StaffelSEO

Marketing and Advertising industry August 2006 – December 2009 (3 years 5 months) Social media and SEO services Marketing & Research intern Tokyo Institute of Technology

Educational Institution; Research industry August 2005 – August 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Responible for Online& offline marketing and recruitment of Marketing Professionals and guidance, motivation and quality control. Jest Staffel's Education Technische Universiteit Eindhoven bachelor, Computer technolgy 2006 – 2010

Failure to provide services
http://www.ripoffreport.com/media/lease-a-seo-com-jest/lease-a-seo-com-jest-staffel-9fd5b.htm  Lease-A-SEO.com - Jest Staffel COMPLETE RIPOFF - DONT TRUST THIS SEO COMPANY

''Our company bought multiple packages from lease-a-seo.com for search engine optimization. The owner of the company, Jest Staffel, was very competent of what we were looking for. Everything started off just fine. We signed the contract, and paid our 4500.00 for 4 packages.''

''The deadline we agreed on was 2 weeks. 7 weeks later after numerous attempts to get a hold of Jest Staffel, our reports were sent. After going through the reports, we could tell there was some serious problems.''

''All of our reports had numerous broken links. Page rank was not correct based on the package we bought. On top of that, our links were placed on highly spammed websites, which included viagra links, illegal prescription drugs, etc.''

''Our rankings in google dropped off the map. After asking for our links to be taken down and for a refund, we were unable to communicate with lease-a-seo.com, and still have not received any follow up about our refund - this has been ongoing for 3 weeks now.''

STAY FAR AWAY FROM LEASE-A-SEO.COM.

Failure to pay employees
http://www.ripoffreport.com/miscellaneous-companies/jest-staffel/jest-staffel-fraudulent-ceo-ma-592p8.htm

Jest Staffel FRAUDULENT CEO Manila Philppines Internet

www.staffelseo.com Internet Philippines

''This person never paid me for my services!! I worked for a whole month and never got paid :( !!!!! Stay away from this FRAUD Company  Asha Avadi India''

=Lilo online marketing / Lilo Marketing= A facebook page for Lease-a-seo.com name also mentions Lilo Online Marketing.

In Asia
An apparent sister operation for the link spammer lease-a-seo.com, a job posting claims:

Address:	Perdices street Donia Milagros Blng. 202 Dumaguete - 6120 Negros Oriental Contact:	Janet Rodriguez Email:	Jest.Staffel@gmail.com

Company description: We are a local online marketing office based in the sleepy town of dumaguette. We have 15+ staff and are rapidly expanding

In Georgia
The Atlanta, GA BBB lists Lilo Marketing, Inc.

(678) 281-1471 1536 Dunwoody Village Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30338-4138 http://lilomarketinginc.com

This address is also used for Lilo Marketing

Wire Fraud Accusations
The name Lilo Marketing is given in wire fraud complaints posted online:

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/lilo-marketing-c323930.html

''They advertise on Craigs List for people to go and do retail surveys. After they get your name and address they Express Mail a fake check. Mine was for $ 2, 500.00. focusgroups@lilomarketing.com Sharon Bayram is the one who sends the survey asking your to conduct one on Western Union by wiring the money to London. The check is fake with a real company name and real bank. Hay Group Phil PA and PNC Bank Phil PA, but account number is fake. FBI is aware of this scam they have been on the east coast of the US now in Florida.''

Subsequent posts go into detail on the nature of the fraud. The general structure is to get people to think a large sum of money is being deposited into their account and they need to withdraw a portion of it and send it to another party. In reality the initial deposit is fake and will not clear. In this specific case victims were directed to send money to:

RECEIVERS NAME: Osobu David DESTINATION: 30 country lane, centurion Pretoria, South Africa, 0157

Compete Research Inc
Compete Research Inc came up when researching the wire fraud complaints about Lilo Marketing. This company appears to be running a scam where they send "mystery shoppers" a fake check as the beginning of a scam.

[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080306135355AA9IsMR Consumer Research Company. Is it a scam?]

[http://www.ripoffreport.com/cross-border-scams/consumer-research-co/consumer-research-company-a-me-9e3e7.htm CONSUMER RESEARCH COMPANY A MEMBER OF AMERICAN SURVEY RESEARCH ORG. FRAUDULANT MYSTERY SHOPPER OPPORTUNITY BARRIE ONTARIO]

=Lease-a-seo.com domain registration= Domain name: lease-a-seo.com

Registrant Contact: lease a seo Athia Awad

Fax: 2nd Floor Natz Building 95 Capitol Front Dumaguete City, Neg. OR. 6219  PH

Administrative Contact: lease a seo Athia Awad (info@lease-a-seo.com) +63.09266453455  Fax: +1.5555555555 2nd Floor Natz Building 95 Capitol Front Dumaguete City, Neg. OR. 6219  PH

Technical Contact: lease a seo Athia Awad (info@lease-a-seo.com) +63.09266453455  Fax: +1.5555555555 2nd Floor Natz Building 95 Capitol Front Dumaguete City, Neg. OR. 6219  PH

Status: Locked Name Servers: ns1.delimitdesign.com ns2.delimitdesign.com Creation date: 04 Jun 2009 15:33:46 Expiration date: 04 Jun 2012 15:33:46

=Suet Cheah= An Internet marketing site has a profile matching the name

A linkedin page for Suet Cheah identifies Suet Cheah as: Secretary, Link Consulting & Acquisitional Manager at Lease-a-seo.com Lease-a-seo.com April 2011 – Present (6 months)

Copywriter, Social Media Manager and Audience Captivator :) Gila Social Media  Internet industry  September 2010 – Present (1 year 1 month)

Instructional Designer Learning Vista E-Learning industry November 2008 – Present (2 years 11 months)

Learning Vista's home page is a flash heavy site that takes close to 30 seconds to load over broadband. It features a brown box that makes an annoying, high pitched "boing" sound when you mouse over it and when the flash animation loads. The site was deemed too annoying to warrant further investigation.