Marc Schneider, Ph.D. – scammer/spammer
This is a scam. I did a bit of research and my fellow bloggers agree.
mycrapmail says this: LINK
dans data says this: LINK
Its a straight forward scam, I give you money, you give me nothing dressed up as something. Who knows what else they might ask for? As you may note, Nigerians use the title “Doctor” in their scams to add credence to their crap. The address itself is apparently borrowed from the American institute of architects
I am Dr. Marc Schneider and I work for Global Vibration Inc. in Washington DC ( Tel: 1 202-787-3989 ) – I would like to speak with the person in charge of your international clientele. Who is my contact? Who should I speak to??
In fact, after visiting http://www.masopher.com, I have noticed that your website cannot be found on foreign search engines (I tested it on Hispanic search engines, German search engines, Asian search engines, etc.) Our company is specialized in multilingual search engine promotions in 28 languages . From the Japanese Google to the German Yahoo, from the AOL in Spanish to the MSN in Chinese, we can show you how to develop a true international online presence by promoting your website on foreign search engines.
Let us show you how to develop a presence on the multilingual web without having to translate your website: It is not necessary to translate your website in order to submit to foreign search engines, however, you need to have at least 1 page in Japanese optimized with Japanese keywords and meta tags in order to submit to Japanese search engines, at least 1 page in Spanish optimized with Spanish keywords in order to submit to Hispanic search engines and so on…
I strongly suggest that you watch our online presentation which will explains clearly how to get top rankings on foreign search engines with only 1 entry page per language (click on the following link or copy-paste it into your web browser): http://www.mplw.net/demo
From the Japanese Google to the German Yahoo, from the AOL in Spanish to the MSN in Chinese, get users to find your website when searching with YOUR KEYWORDS in their Native language.
Please call me at 1 (202)-787-3989 or email me and let’s work on giving your website the true international exposure which it deserves to have with foreign native online users!!
Regards,
Marc Schneider, Ph.D.
Marcs@mplw.net
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GLOBAL VIBRATION INC.
1250 Connecticut Ave N.W. Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036 USA
TEL:1 (202)-787-3989 – FAX: 1 (202)-318-4779
http://www.mplw.net :
Multilingual Search Engine Promotion Services since 1999
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:33 pm #Mark S
Turns out a Google of his streeet address and Suite number shows it is a virtual office with many various companies sharing the same suite.
I would have more faith in a company, even a 1 man shop, to show a real address, rather than one I pay for to have a real presence with a conference room, etc.
The link to rent his same office is here:
http://www.davincivirtual.com/loc/us/district-of-columbia/washington-virtual-offices/facility-716/
June 29th, 2010 at 9:11 pm #Ernie Roach
If you/your company have/has a website chances are you have received first an email ( many actually – it´s called spam ) from Mplw.com in which Dr. Marc Schneider stated your website could not be found in foreign search engines and asked who in your company should he contact.
Later his assistant, that was me, at least from july 2009 until late january 2010, who called you to setup a phone appointment with Schneider.
Marc Schneider is a fake name used by Mathias Levarek who is not to be found at 1250 Connecticut Ave N.W. Suite 200 because this too is a fake address for his ghost company but real scam, you just need to drive out there to prove it.
Mathias Levarek and Global vibration have the same address in the white pages, by the way, check your emails to confirm it´s the same address for Marc Schneider ( wow, 2 Ph.D´s now ).
Mathias Levarek is aware I am revealing the truth about his scam so now he´s working some changes, instead of Marc Schneider you will find him signing his articles section on his website http://www.mseo.com, but those who checked it before should remember they where signed by Marc Schneider but displayed the same face they do now for Levarek. He´s actually revamping all his records on the web to cover his tracks, hmm, more scams on the horizon.
He´s starting out a spanish version of mseo.com but instead of spamming he has ( promises propelled ) telemarketers calling deceivingly with lies to collect the name and email address of the manager in charge of the international clientele so they can spam the hell outta them later with the excuse this info was provided by someone in the company, usually the operator. Beware!!!! By the way, this emailing campaign will be signed by alejandro Torres ( name could have changed by now ) again a fake name for Fabian Medina, a new member of the scam family who lives in Palermo, down town Buenos Aires and not to be found, as he asures, at the same washington DC address that coincidentally also happens to be Levarek´s address.
Beware, the cheat is a chameleon and always coming up with a new disguise.
Neither the phone number (202) 250-3645 , or any other, ( 202-558-2504 ), ( 202-787-3989 ), is from Washinton DC, for it was a vonage – voip phone, That´s why it often provided a distorted connection, and I was calling from my garage in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Mathias hires most of his staff, except for 1 guy in germany ( the computer expert ) and the spamming group in Lebanon ( which he is actually disbanding in due course with his revamping and new scam scenario).
Neither is it true that he has offices in the 28 countrys for which he provides optimizations & translations, (*), etc.. for that case he considered my garage an office of his company and the family house in Hawaii the pacific branch. His flat in amsterdam is his european branch. Every thing related to him is a lie as you can well see.
Truth is his former wife and current associate Sandra Levarek lives in Hawaii ( in former marital home ) managing accountings / tech work, and he spends most of the year in Amsterdam but, conveniently, never for too long at the same address. He´s actually in Hawaii soon to leave for Costa Rica if sticking to his schedule.
The Fake will invite you ( with the references he sends ) to check their corporate profile with Dun & Bradstreet (DNB #798950270), where you will see that they assure they are the only SEO company in their line of industry grossing over $55 million annually. Truth is their so cheap that they don´t even pay for their traveling airfares.
Sandra is a former air stewardess and as so manages to keep the hole family airborn thanks to free airplane tickets. Always on the move, always on the road but some how they manage to keep their money in the wallet and fingers in somebody else´s pocket.
He hires labor hand and knowledge in countries like mine in disregard of american more expensive workers ( he wouldn´t get away without paying taxes or wages as he does here ). He´ll hire a worker and after the first month & a half will not pay that employee´s well earned salary stating that this was his training and way to obtain the job.
The following month he will just pay half of the wages in the excuse that we had done a bad job, by this time we´re up to the neck in debts ( add the equipment we need to purchase at our own expense ). Finally you collect 1 full month and then again after 2 months he points out we did a bad job and out on to the street we go without a cent and last 2 months salary never to be collected ( cheating is his way of making money ).
In the mean time he´s already hired your replacement ( and the replacements replacement ), with the same disregard and contemp he spares his customers. Often I learned he hadn´t called his appointments because he had already made enough sales and/or considered them low key. Of course, when he ran out of leads ( as he calls his potential victims ) he would re-establish contact again.
He especially held in contemp Jews, Africans, Irish, eastern europeans and Australians saying they were cheap and always giving him the run around and being picky and hard to get them to close a deal.
I know most customers get what they payed for ( meaning the utopic web entry pages only) but I´ve also had customers calling because they paid and never got what they bought.
Ask for references and he´ll send you lots of references but will ask you not to call them, convenient, is it not?
Many would be victims told me they had called the not to call references and had learned from them that it was a waste of money. Now that´s the real reason why he asks you not to call.
What he sells is a fake too, he knows it and never ever gave anybody a guarantee on his work, sounds familiar?
Customers who asked for a monetary fine clause contract agreement in case services rendered by mseo were not what they promised never ever hear of Marc Schneider again, convenient too. Simple, they can´t guarantee anything, it´s a scam. I have many cases to prove it.
Let me tell you about Jackie´s experience ( I keep her data private ). She hired mseo.com to create a spanish web entry page which was created, delivered, done and payed for. It was delivered to spanish search engines ( was it? ), some time later she received again an email ( from Schneider/Levarek ) stating that she was not showing up on the spanish search engines and that she should use his services ( again!! ).
Puzzled? surprised? Jackie certainly was, and ripped-off too. I was handling incoming calls at the time and took her complaint and forwarded it to Schneider/ Levarek. Never heard/new he contacted her back or did anything about it. Slipped through the cracks as he is fond to say.
Many of you asked how had Schneider got your info/email/website data, well, he bought the lists of info from hackers as he personally said to me once. Isn´t this illegal?
Shouldn´t he be giving a real address and name? Is it not a felony to provide false information in the spirit of deceiving to obtain a benefit in the USA? Evading taxes by not having a physical presence or by hiring people abroad is not a felony either?
Believe it or not law may be slow ( even unable ) to stop him unless we, the people, stand up, unite and ourselves put an end to it.
Just for you to know the extent of this individuals low character, on Thursday 18th of march he personally called me at my home in Argentina to threaten me, saying he had hired people to kill me. Pathetic, grotesque, low and as stupid as only he can be. So much for a Ph.D. playing gangster.
July 5th, 2010 at 6:59 pm #Udit
I nearly paid the guy $7000 for Multilingual SEO. But he is very convincing. His site ranks very well for lots of top Keywords.
But what a scammer. I spoke to him over the phone, he told me that he has done his MBA from Harvard.
So does he actually end up delivering nothing (I mean is he a complete scam or just over commitment)?
Anyways, can you recommend any other good company for Multilingual SEO?
Thanks.