11 March 2009 16:04:28 Central Daylight Time

Just as with Rosalind Gardner around Christmas, I was recently hacked probably through an old version of WordPress or an outdated plugin, however I was permanently suspended because of it at Bluehost.com!

I was on the case before Bluehost.com because I got a letter from Lloyd’s of London security unit.

I immediately renamed the redirects so they could not be used and called Bluehost.com Tech Support.

I was put on hold for 30 minutes via cell phone whilst I volunteer at a soup kitchen for the poor almost every day at 5:30 sharp.

Sara of the Abuse Department appropriately suspended my account temporarily but started yelling at me for not deleting the now renamed and now useless redirects.

Because she was yelling at me I told her not to talk to me like a little school boy because I am a Unix Administrator. Sara mocked me when I said that and deleted the evidence that Lloyd’s of London wanted!

I received a letter from abuse@bluehost.com after serving the poor for one half hour 5:30 to 6:00 Monday through Thursday that said I had world writable files and directories.

I printed out the results of the ./securityscan.sh script and corrected the permissions.

The next day I was restored only to receive another letter that said I had a few world writable files and directories, which I had changed the day before.

So, I corrected the permissions and wrote a letter to abuse@bluehost.com with a carbon copy for Lloyd’s of London and Matt Heaton the CEO.

I told them that my account was obviously rooted because I had already changed those permissions.

I got no response from the Abuse Department! However, I did get a form letter from Matt Heaton that apologized for the inconvenience.

The next day I was suspended permanently. They said “three strikes and you are out.”

They are not doing their job correctly at Bluehost.com! Loss of command and control probably from growing to fast and a poorly educated applicant pool in Utah. Not like Hostgator.com who actually moved from Florida to Houston to up the quality of their applicant pool.

As a System Administrator I would backup the infected server to gather forensic evidence for AT&T, then run a clean backup.

Bluehost.com executed the victim! The front line lower techs are sympathetic to my unfair treatment however Bluehost only lost a client and I lost my business.

If you care about the security of your customers business and thus it’s viability use Hostgator.com even if the payout is more for affiliates at Bluehost.com.

Now that you know the truth about the current state of affairs at Bluehost.com it is your duty as a honest person and a honest Internet Marketer to do the right thing and tell the truth! Amen.

Knowledge is power and the Truth will set you free.

Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
Frank Funston Eckdall
Esquire
Unix Administrator & Webmaster

FrankEckdall.com

Dear Rick,

As the son of a prosecutor I know why you didn’t mention names but you are bang on again, pun intended.

When I see my in box packed to the brim everyday I become trigger happy deleting all those whores, who lose more credibility everyday!

Rick, when duty calls you’ve got balls!

Another A+ Award for straight shooting and guts to say it. Thanks Rick!

Your friend,
Frank Eckdall
Esquire
P.D. Another terrific graphic to illustrate the state in which we find Internet Marketing today. Sad but true.

It is to much information to fast and a formula for failure for anyone new to internet marketing.

Internet marketing has become complex and more sophisticated all the time especially the English market.

There are very few really honest internet marketers out there that would like to see you make money on the net. They are selling you a dream not solid step by step tactics and proven strategies. Incidentally, they always tell you what to do but they only tell you half the story and almost never tell you what they are really doing. God is in the details and they almost never give you that, even when you pay out big bucks.

As a newbie a good rule of thumb is not to do as they tell you to do but to do as they do. It can take years of constant research to figure out what they are really doing and how they do it.

As the son of a Prosecutor, Graduate Biochemist, RN Nurse, Foreign M.D. and Unix Administrator thank you Rick Butts for telling the truth!

P.D. I love the graphic of the donkey with to much cargo to carry and the cargo actually lifting they donkey off the ground. A brilliant illustration of information overload!!

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If you are even contemplating the purchase of the new internet marketing book “Project Black Mask” then don’t.

Even though Rosalind Gardner, one of the most honest internet marketers, ranted about how good the section on long tail keywords was, even she really couldn’t bring herself to wholeheartedly recommend this book.

The sales page is basically a lie. A lie is anything that is not true. There is no loop hole in Google, and if there was they would fix it. Google employs all kinds of really smart people.
Guys like Chris X really are basically dishonest, i.e. they lie to you to get your money. I’m a little disappointed that the three or the four sites, listed above, who told the truth still put up an affiliate link just in case your still stupid enough to buy into his sale page lies. When I saw his sales page my scam radar screen said bogey coming in fast at 12 o’clock high.
The book is mostly about old stuff that doesn’t work anymore plus SEO and Adsense. Also, you are required to purchase 20 of his product recommendations so his system will work.

The sales page is a lie and I commend those sites mentioned above for telling the truth and very disappointed with some of the other Internet Marketers for lying to their customer list just for another swimming pool or vacation.
For those who don’t know me yet my father is a prosecutor and I was taught not to lie. These people who lie to us via the false safety of the internet are very lucky they are not in my fathers jurisdiction.

I refuse to contradict myself and put up a affiiliate link for “Project Black Mask”

Enough said.