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If it’s not spam why are you telling me?

April 30, 2007 by Michele Neylon 3 Comments

You've got to love reciprocal link spammers!
Their emails are great!
I got this one earlier today:

Dear owner of http://www.xxxxx.xxxx,
I'm the webmaster of http://www.xxxx.xxxx.
We came across your site on the Internet and feel that it would fit perfectly into our collection of quality software-related links at http://www.xxxx.xxxx.
The Google PR of this site is currently 0.
We've already placed a link to your web site along with a description at our site on the http://www.xxxx.xxxx/links38.html page, which we encourage you to check for accuracy.
We'd appreciate it if you place a link back to our site using the following HTML code (just copy and paste it into your links page):
xxxxxxxxx.com - xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxx
If you'd like the description of your site modified, the category changed, or if you have any other cross-promotion ideas, feel free to email us.
Please note that if you don't place a reciprocal link to us somewhere on your site within a week, the link to your site will automatically be removed from our directory. Please link to us using the code above, and let us know where we can find the link.
Best regards,
xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
This is NOT SPAM -- this is a one-time reciprocal link request. We have NO INTENTION to email you again. You can also reply to this email with REMOVE in the subject line to make sure we'll NEVER send you any more e-mails in the future.
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I've edited it heavily to remove reference to the spammed site and the spammer.
What made me laugh was the footer. If it's not spam why are you sending it to "the owner of xxx.com"? If you know who I am then you know what my name is.
I also love the way the person using the software didn't edit the boilerplate email that well and left in the "software related links" line. Considering the mail was aimed at a site to do with the tourism industry I can see that getting a few raised eyebrows...

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  1. Dominykas says

    April 30, 2007 at 3:10 pm

    Um. The really funny part is why do you need to “REMOVE” yourself, if they do not intend to mail you again 🙂

  2. michele says

    April 30, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    I get a lot of those sent to search.ie addresses… Considering it’s a directory …..

  3. paul says

    May 1, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    I got something similar yesterday too. But without the boiler plate and sent to the info@mydomain address. The email still had the details
    X-Mailer: LinkAssistant (http://www.link-assistant.com)
    If someone gives me a free link, I’m normally not that pushed to link to them back anyway 😉

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