Advertising Scam/Spam

[Tom K.]

I've been receiving highly suspicious emails lately to advertise on some random domains of mine.

"My name is George Nelson and I am contacting you to inquire eventual purchase of a link on your website (**********.com).
Could you please give us the prices for the following ad options:

1) text link on your homepage only
2) text link on all pages
3) text box 120x60, 125x125 on homepage
4) text box 120x60, 125x125 on all pages

Thank you in advance!

George Nelson"

It almost sounds legit but email address is different for reply-to and each email sent has the same content but different sender and reply-to address. All being at a freebie email address (yahoo, hotmail, etc.)

Seems like a way to get you to respond and confirm email addresses for the purpose of spamming or some other hideous scheme.

Anyone else get these?

Regards,
Tom

 

[denny007]

Yeah got hundreds of them, did not figure out yet whats their target...

 

[doobee]

Yeah I got a few as well in the last week. I think it is a way to dig out "live" emails using the whois utility, etc. for spam purposes. I wouldn't reply if I were you.

 

[Tom K.]

No way! That's why I'm posting it here. NO ONE ANSWER TO IT. It does look like a way to get emails to "individual" recipients as most whois email addresses do not go to any single person's personal account but to accounts dedicated to domain/registrar correspondance. So they're hoping to get a reply from a personal email account.

 

[Deleted member 5660]

I got about 50 of these, all different names and different forged e-mail addresses.

 

[stock_post]

ooops, they asked me for price on a site that I have.

And I responded to the email.

Let me see how it goes.

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on another site AdSense Alternatives
Some one actually contacted not the same email.

They bought one link for $10.00 for an year.

Thanks