Received email from someone saying ...

Hi,

I received an email saying

Is this real ?

I replied to their mail and the replied me back and told that they want to add 6 gambling related links in my site and will pay $120 per year via paypal ...

what you guys think ...

 

How would any of us know any more than you? Use your own judgment, as there is nothing for us to determine whether it is real or not.

 

What is your site and how do you monetize it? If it is through adsense, desist from giving links to gambling related sites as google dislikes gambling sites.

 

i also get several such email for our website

there is no loss to deal with them as just take money and out there links and if they dont pay then simply remove

 

It is possible it is real. However, remember, once you accept the deal, as Dairyman pointed out, you can not use Adsense. Also, you may offend some of your viewers depending on what the niche of your site is.

The price you stated is a good price if it is per link. If that is the total for all links, I think you are lowering the value of the site for such a small amount of money.

 

No it isn't real.

 

Go with it, check they give you a simple image, and test where its linking to and check the stats of that page to check its valid and not recieved any bad reviews etc or reported as an attack site in mozilla and so on.

Then see how it goes from there.

 

Good opertunity ask for the payment first

 

It's all depends on you. If you want money and don't care having gambling links on your site, then accept the deal..otherwise, reject it.

 

I think you must accept their request.

 

Write back to them and see what they reply. I think its ok.

 

Thats a good idea. And make a request for their name etc in a small form format.

 

Ask for them to pay using their own paypal funds and your are ok with it.

 

Yeah, ask for front payment first. If they just ignored it, then you will know that it's a scammer!

 

last week i got 56 same mails by different names

 

how do we know whether they are paying using paypal own funds or not ? if we use personal account then it will prompt us whether we would like to accept credit card payment or not with high fee. but for business account we don't get any I believe.

 

you can earn more than that $120 from adsense

 

ask him to pay to your personal paypal account if he pays from credit card just reject it

but better ask first about which links he want to place

 

Hi,

They might have liked your site very much. Accept the offer and upload the links. If they haven't paid, lift the links...

 

I replied to their mail and waiting for their reply ... let's see what happens

you know what, couple of my staffs also received the same email

Here we are not discussing how to earn $120

I don't accept payments in my personal account. As i run a firm, i cannot account the money comes in personal account.

what are we going to do with their name and all ...

thanks for your suggestions.