People contacting me about text link ad purchases through my domain

Discussion in 'General Business' started by domainer_10, Feb 28, 2008.

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    Lately i been getting people contacting me through my whois privacy protection email asking about purchasing links. I never mention selling links on my site, so these are completely random. Im not talking about that contactthem.ws scam, these people don't mention what links they want to sell or how much.

    My question is has anyone got good offers from these random anonymous offers or are these people just spamming hundreds of domains hoping to pay as little as possible for some ridiculous small amount?
     
    domainer_10, Feb 28, 2008 IP
  2. Ashilicious!

    Ashilicious! Peon

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    In my experience if it sounds to good to be true... well you know the rest :-/

    Let us know if you take them up on the offer.

    Ash
     
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    sheesh I put up a contact form yesterday and the same guy hit another one of my sites. The majority seem to be from one guy saying he has business sites but that he is interested in links on my site. It must be mass spamming it cause he is hit about 3 of my sites. But in the past I had someone else randomly ask through my whois privacy email about advertising on a site.
     
    domainer_10, Feb 29, 2008 IP
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    I've received quite a few similar messages wanting to purchase links/advertising. My spamradar went off immediately though when I saw that the name of the person and the name on the e-mail address don't match.
    The messages also seem to follow the exact same format.
     
    Crusader, Feb 29, 2008 IP
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    The name on this person matches



    Here is the similiar text with the person's name removed that Ive gotten from this person. Does anyone get such an email?



    This is *********. I am webmaster of a few business-basedsites.
    While looking for more business related sites, I came
    across **************. I found your site very pleasing and
    would loveto purchase text-links to my sites on it.

    Please do come back on this withyour views.

    Awaiting your response,

    ************.
     
    domainer_10, Feb 29, 2008 IP