David Sheehan/Saeed R Sehizadeh, Spammer-At-Law

We all get a lot of spam.  Usually I just delete it and move on.  But just now I received a particularlry irksome piece of spam:  In the blog's inbox came this bit of spam from a lawyer:

Subject line: Wrongful Death Case.

As a Personal Injury Lawyer practicing in the PI field, I know the challenges facing all of us as we try to bring in more business and have a stream of new clients.... 

Join the largest network of personal injury lawyers while it is still free. Once we are on the first page of Google, you have to pay a premium to become a member. Enjoy the most sophisticated listing at the most sophisticated network of Personal Injury Lawyers in the nation: [redacted], where we continue to offer free membership.

Here is a summary of the benefit of your membership...

 Sincerely, David Sheehan, Attorney ...

After some digging, I learned that David Seehan is a lawyer.  But his real name is Saeed R Sehizadeh.

Now I recognize that everyone has to hussle.  But spamming?!  Aren't there other ways of doing business?

In any event, Mr. Sheehan did three things wrong.  First, his subject line was misleading.  The e-mail had nothing to do with a "Wrongful Death Case."  Rather, it was a commerical solicitation.  Likely, Mr. Sheehan wanted to trick his e-mail's receipients into thinking a potential client, rather than a spammer, was e-mailing him.

Second, since Mr. Sheehan sent the e-mail to the Crime And Federalism inbox, it appears he is harvesting e-mail addresses from law blogs.  In other words, he's a professional spammer.

Third, he sent spam to a computer-savvy blogger.  Big mistake - times two.  I found his e-mail addresses, which I am going to share.  And now anyone looking for information on David Sheehan will learn that he's a spammer.  [Ed's Note: Mr. Sheehan, if you apologize to me and everyone else you spammed, then I will delete this post.  Otherwise, anyone Googling you will know that you are a spammer.]

Given that Mr. Sheehan is a spammer, he should have no moral objection to my publicizing his e-mail for the spammers who, like him, crawl C&F.  His e-mail address for his new association is: pi@napil.com.  On his built-by-a-high-school-student website, he refuses to list his e-mail address.  Perhaps because he is trying to avoid spammers such as himself?  In any event, here is his other e-mail address: duidefenders@yahoo.com.

Comments

[mythago]

Ed's Note: Mr. Sheehan, if you apologize to me and everyone else you spammed, then I will delete this post.

And wouldn't his apology be yet MORE spam?!

[Jim Harper]

You realize that the very first large commercial spam effort was also by lawyers, right?

http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html

[Stephen M (Ethesis)]

Not only was the first large commercial spam effort by lawyers, it was also one of the most successful.

[Bruce Hayden]

I don't know where he is licensed, but I would suspect that the misleading aspect of his soliticiation would be unethical. There may be more that is too.

[Mike]

And wouldn't his apology be yet MORE spam?!

Ummm... I guess it depends on how we define spam. If spam must be both unwanted and unsolicited, then I don't think it would be spam - since apologies are nice! If spam is simply unsolicited e-mail, then yes, you'd be correct.

[David Cameron Carr]

From the State Bar of California website:

Saeed Reza Sehizadeh - #219368
Current Status: Active

This member is active and may practice law in California.

See below for more details.
Profile Information
Bar Number 219368
Address Law Ofc David Sheehan
23945 Calabasas Rd Ste 106
Calabasas, CA 91302-1503 Phone Number (818) 444-4477
Fax Number (818) 222-4854
e-mail duidefenders@yahoo.com
District District 7 Undergraduate School Southern Illinois Univ; Carbondale IL
County Los Angeles Law School Southwestern Univ SOL; Los Angeles CA
Status History
Effective Date Status Change
Present Active
5/30/2002 Admitted to The State Bar of California

[Aaron]

"Hello, this is Homer Simpson aka Happy Dude.

The court has ordered me to call every person in town to apologize for my telemarketing scam.

I'm sorry.

If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield.

You have the power!"

[Me]

This guy also runs multiple sites to try and scam money off of people like: medical-transcription1.com with links to (his friends/family) in India for offshoring of privacy/the U.S. Medical Record and the like.

[Jim T]

This guy runs a website where he lists numerous 'Case Law" of random people that he claims are for his employment agency client purposes, however I strongly suspect that he does it to extort money from people.

In my case the "Case Law" he has listed is an Appeal of a court case where the Original Verdict was Overturned by the Appellate Court and totally reversed the lower courts ruling.

However, the posting of the case reads through the entire original case before it ever gets to the Higher Courts Decission to overturn the judgment. By that time the reader would have to read hours worth of damming claims that were later thrown out of court.

The point is, how would you like to google your name or worse yet an expected employer googles your name and this law suit pops up. The employer reads the first page of false claims made in the original court case and you just lost any chance of getting that job. That employer isn't going to read any further then the first page. They will not read the next 60 some pages to find out later that the case was thrown out and you were innocent of those false claims. You are screwed period!

I wrote to this guy asking him to remove the case as it was deflamitory and misrepresents the truth about who I really am and what really happened. (especially, to a spot reading potential employer) He replied to that original e-mail quoted some BS legal presidence as to why he could be doing what he is doing, but then said if I paid a fee of $88.00 he would remove it from his website. That was 15 days ago and since then I have written him at least 6 times requesting that he fullfil his promise to remove the case from his website. He has not returned any e-mails since, his phone number is answered by a machine and he has not removed the case from his website.

Early on I googled PEO7 to see if there were any complaints against the firm because I suspected this wasn't right, but that came up clean. I then just today 15 days later googled "David Sheehan" and here I am. I just e-maild "Saeed" at the 2 e-mail addresses posted here and the one I had for him and DEMANDED that the scumbag remove the case or I would be talking with the State Bar about his dealings.

I could have never done that without this posting so THANK YOU very much for looking into this A-hole and giving me the ammonition I needed to call him on his sheet!

I gave him 24 hours to remove it, so I'll let you know how it went, but I can't imagine this guy wants to face the State Bar for something so stupid. I didn't ask for a refund and I told him I wished him no harm, but I want that case off his website now!

[Mike]

Jim T: Glad I could be of help. That's why I have this site - to help out.

The guy is a total scum bag. Others have been in touch with me. How he is still practing law is a mystery to me.

If he gives you any drama, let me know.