Each day I face the same challenge and as you described have now progressed from simply receiving contact form spam to phone calls offering SEO / Development services from India on a daily basis.

When in business I definitley like to listen to outside proposals that may strengthen my companies services, unfotunatley though these phone calls are becoming more frequent and simply annoying.

I am also not going to do business with anyone who lies to me in the opening sentence of their conversation, what I mean by that is certain Indians usuing western names to try and build initial confidence. Last week I had a Bill, Ritchie and Alan call me and I could bet my reputation none of these are their real names.

Aside from the time lost dealing with these enquiries the false names really get under my skin a great deal, like you this is not an attack on India if I was getting these enquiries from other continents I would be just as peeved.

I clearly state on my site’s contact form that I do not outsource web work overseas. They fill out the form anyway. Why would I outsource my laundry much less my clients’ work to people who have no intention of following basic directions?

As for the last call I received, it went like this:
“Who am I speaking with?”
(I gave my name.)
“Who am I speaking with?”
“I just told you.”
“Can I speak with the business person?” (*I’m a woman, therefore I must be the receptionist!)
“You are speaking with the business person.”
“I see from your web site you do x, y, and z.”
“No I do not. My web site does not say that anywhere.”

Please note this is not an attack on India per se. I would have this problem if they were Peruvian, Portuguese, or Philadelphian. But the site analytics tell the story: up to fifty (!) unwanted contacts per week from one country. I don’t have this problem from anywhere else.

WTF!

Nice to see you commented here

I agree with you on the fact that a lot of companies outsource their link building strategy’s and India will indeed be one of those locations along with many other locations around the world. On world statistics Russia would most likely come out top for Spam i would think, on my site last year however India was the leader. Rouge submissions have gradually declined over that past few months which is nice as proves or detection systems are working efficiently to deal with spammers.

Aside from the usual Viagra and other medical products we actually had a lot of submissions offering Top Class SEO Services yeah right lol. I like many dislike all spammers of any origin but it’s part and parcel of the Internet and life in general.

Just my thoughts.