Google spam – sort of

Well… Not really…
One of the spam trends I’ve noticed recently is “link swap” spam. If you only run one website you might be duped into believing it was a genuine request for a link swap.. … except when you get 100’s of them with almost identical text and very obvious indications that they have never “visited” your site except with their spam bot!
Typically the text reads something like this:

Hello,
I came across your web site recently http://www.xxxxx.com/, and I am intrigued by its contents. I was particularly fascinated by your site. I thought our web site might interest you and be of help to your web site visitors.
Here we listed the brief description of our site,
Title - description of spammer's site - http://www.somespammersdomain.tld
I feel that exchange of links would elicit mutual beneficial effects to both the sites and their visitors. If you feel that exchange of links would prove to be apt and beneficial, please do include our links in your site and forward your link details.
Even if you should feel that you are not happy including our link in your site, do let us know whether you would have any objections if we were to include your link in our site.
If you should feel that it requires further discussion, please do get in touch with us at
Best Regards,
Some Spammer or some spammers "promotion company"

What amuses me is that they tend to either pick sites like search.ie or translationresearch.com which actively accept links! Or else they choose sites that have zero relevance to them.
I blame google! (sort of)