If there’s one thing I hate most of all it’s marketer’s preying on the naivete of people who don’t understand how the internet works.

This morning I woke up to find this VERY scammy headline in my email box by an online busines person who I GUESS has an impressive background and a lot of people respect.

This is just sick in how predatory it is:

The subject line in the email was:

“We made the first page in Google News …”

Then within the body of the email this person goes on to say:

“…page #1 of Google News.

Here’s what they had to say about

Here’s the problem…”Google News” had NOTHING to say about them.

What happened was this person’s OWN company submitted a press release and THAT press release was LISTED in Google News.

To be more specific, this person’s OWN company submitted a press release through a SERVICE called SearchByHeadlines.com and the listing from SearchByHeadlines was listed in Google News.

Ugh. I’d love to give this person the benefit of the doubt…

I mean…I suppose it’s POSSIBLE the person who sent the email just doesn’t understand how all this works but based on the person’s background, experience and overall knowledge that is VERY doubtful.