I got an interesting email the other day from a Data recovery website explaining that someone had spoofed their email address and was asking webmasters to remove any links to their site. I hadn't received any such email until today ... from a 'different' data recovery site. It seems like someone has come up with a new way to increase their own link popularity in the field of data recovery ... by spoofing emails asking people to remove links to their competitors. Here's a copy of some of the text:
Same here. I got the same thing a few days ago. At first I removed the link. Then the site owner's link checking system detected the link was removed, talked to him, found out about the whole deal, and then added it back. I then received another email of the same nature a day or so later! I just forwarded it to the site owner that time and didn't take any further action.
I thought so too, which is why I posted about it. Lol. It does make you wonder. This would have taken a bit of work to research the various sites involved.
Without a doubt. I wonder about the legality of it too since the intention is to deliberately harm business using fraudulent means and by falsely claiming to represent an individual or business entity.
I received one of these e-mails supposedly from a data recovery site I had linked to. I have since forwarded this e-mail onto the site's webmaster. I did not delete the link as I had another webmaster warn me of what was going on a few weeks ago.
I don't find anything in this which should be called as tactic and concept. I know the basic concept of having external links - "recommended site" And recommended site is always relevant according to the protocol. I was doing the same before the algo updates....it's common sense.
They could have just emailed all the sites and politely asked for a link rather than trying to remove their competitors links