I received a comment from Jonte (or Jonas Carlstrom as his real name turned out to be) with a link to the site nyatatueringar.com. Of course I went there and checked it out, but pretty soon I started to get a weird feeling. To begin with, I was bothered by the “free offer” of tattoo designs on the page. The only way to shut down the “offer” was to fill in your name and email address and download. It was not so terribly hard really, but I was annoyed that you could not decline, and one can only speculate in what Jonas Carlgren will use all the mail addresses for…
At first glance, the site gave a professional impression, but the more you read the stranger it seemed. The author (Jonas?) is good at writing, but seems to have no real knowledge of the subject.
Nevertheless, I read a bit on the site and even managed to comment on an article in which it was proposed that one could let a student at a tattoo school do your tattoo to get away cheaper, before I seriously started believing there might be another hidden purpose to the whole site.
I wrote this in response to Do You want a student to tattoo You, contact a tattoo school:
“WARNING!
There are NO tattoo schools in Sweden! Sometimes theres been adverts in the newspapers about “tattoo educations” that goes over 3-5 days, but no real tattooist (meaning those who who work in environmental and health-controlled studios) knows who organizes these programs or what they include. You can not become a tattoo artist in such a short time. An apprenticeship usually lasts between 1 and 3 years!
Registered Tattooists of Sweden (http://www.srt.se) has unsuccessfully tried to get in touch with those responsible for these courses.
As they are quite expensive it seems to be an attempt to fool people with tattoo dreams out of their money.
The right way to go if you really want to become a tattooist is the apprentice way. Forget everything else!”
The site lacks all contact information. Not even an alias or an anonymous email address is to be found. Most images has been copied from Gaddad.se. They are greatly reduced and tightly cropped, but you can still see the copyright information on several of them.
Apart from Google ads there are ads for “world’s best tattoos” from Chopper Tattoo. The link to the chopper Tattoo is a so-called affiliate link that goes through Clickbank.net. The affiliate Account name jozcar and he gets 75% of any completed purchase at Chopper Tattoo that goes through that link. How professional Chopper Tattoo is and what you can buy there, I do not know because I had no desire to sign up, and You have to signup i order to see anything of the site. They claim to have “the largest selection of award winning tattoo designs” but what they really are, I don’t know.
Jozcar, as the affiliate account is called is the name of Jonas Carlstroms company, Jozcar Marketing, and it is also the name of the company that registered the domain nyatatueringar.com.
In the pdf file one had to download before one could see nyatatueringar, there are adverts for
tatueringsbilder.com which despite its swedish name is registered in Los Angeles. The domain owners identity is protected from transparency, but the registration was handled by the same company doing the registrations for most of Jonas Carlstroms blogs and websites. If you try to access the site, there is a re-direct sending you to Chopper Tattoo via the affiliate link.
Jonas is according to himself, a marketing profile among other things holding seminars on search engine optimization and on how to make money on the internet. He appears frequently both in words and pictures on the web, and in non of the pictures I’ve found he has so much as a single visible tattoo. He sais this¸ on one of his sites:
“Jonas has also created the educational product Blog Pro School where he walkes You through via video how to step by step attract people to your blog / website and live on your interests as PROFESSIONAL BLOGER. You will, among other things learn how to create Content & Products that attract visitors, so that you do not have to guess to know EXACTLY what your market would rather read about. But you may also practice how to deliver it to them in a flash. This can include how quickly you can position yourself as an expert in your market. Or how easily You can build trust and be perceived as an expert in your industry.”
I don’t think Jonas Carlstrom is the least interested in tattoos but nyatatueringar.com is just a way
to catch tattoo related searches on the search engines and then send them on to Chopper Tattoo to
hopefully collect those 75% of what people buy. It is also remarkable that he uses a lot of copyrighted images while at the same time his “official” sites carefully points out that one must not use their text and images without permission.
Though he might have asked for permission …
- Jontes (Jonas Carlstroms) comment on my site.
- nyatatueringar.com
- Do You want a student to tattoo You, contact a tattoo school (The page I commented – my comment seems to be gone.)
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