Countrywide Australia - Australia

I keep getting these calls from seemingly friendly people at Countrywide Media, who are apparently calling on behalf of Victoria Police, SES, various charities, safe houses for little kiddies, etc. They ask for a sizeable donation in exchange of getting listed in something called "Drew MacPherson".

They sound believable and it seems like they're promoting a good cause. But there's something very fishy going on.

The site promotes some bloke called "Eduardo Agnes Jr" and their site description says:

"Countrywide Media is a specialist publishing company who has business partners that are not for profit Police based volunteer associations and community groups along with State Emergency Services Associations. Through the publication of Handbooks and Magazines these organisations have  

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the opportunity to effectively communicate to members and target markets. Countrywide Austral Pvt. Ltd. was founded in September 1998 by Tony Cornish and Chris Pierlot for the purpose of profit sharing and publishing products for volunteer community-based groups and organisations. We have long term contracts with various Police departments throughout Australia and New Zealand and State Emergency Service Volunteers Associations of Australia. Resources include a staff of 130 and growing, in-house production studio producing 80 products per year, inbound call centre, advertising sales executives and outbound telesales. Countrywide Media have offices in Melbourne and Sydney. We currently have around 100 sales people operating throughout our 3 offices. Around 60% of our staff have been with the company for at least 3 years."

But take a look at their website (make sure you have Javascript disabled) and you'll see some "SEO cloaking" in action: