Scam or opportunity??? Website owners - see this email
"Hi, I'm affiliated with a company for whom I'm looking to purchase advertising from quality websites. I've had a look at your site at [ my domain name] and think that it would be a good match for our client, whose target demographic is similar to your own.
We would be interested in purchasing advertising in the form of a text-based link on your site. To reduce unnecessary administrative costs we prefer to pay a fixed annual upfront fee for such advertisements.
Once the ad has been placed, payment can be made quickly by PayPal or check. Please let me know if the above is of any interest to you. Thanks in advance.
Best, John "
At first it looked like a good offer, an annual fee for a text link - what would be easier than this.
BUT - then I read it again and it hit me...
This is a great way to create powerful backlinks. "Once the ad has been placed, payment can be made" means you place a text link in your site, they stall the payment for a week or so and in the meantime the site were crawled and the backlink counted.
I can assume that after a while you either remove it or get an answer such as "Sorry, your site doesn't fit our expectations, please cancel" in any case the link has been made....
furthermore the domain the email came from leads to a simple website with a "mailto:" contact only.
This is what I call a creative scam...
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