Hi, since penguin update, the new trend from seo spammers is to mass contacting webmaster asking for link removal, the same links they mass spammed to get. My position is to ignore them or ask for ridiculous amount of money, but they employ threats, to my hosting company and to Google. So far I have ignored them, but what do you do? Do you waste your time doing what they order or do you ignore them? What's the best course of action do you think?
The links were part of articles which were posted to the blogs, by using an automated system. However, there is no automated system to remove the links.