Some clever spam.
This thing is pretty fucking genius. It looks like it automatically pulled in search terms from Google, along with a broad category from the DMOZ project. Needless to say, Spamassasin and what not didn’t catch it.
Hey - I just searched in Google for as 400 java and found www.neuro-tech.net ranked 3. I have a related website about Computers - Hardware that’s purely informational (so I’m NOT a competitor of yours) and I’d like to link to your site.
I consider my site to be one of the best resources for information regarding Computers - Hardware. I get a decent amount of visitors to it so if I link to you, your site should get some decent traffic from it.
I only link to good quality sites… I think you’ll find my site to be high quality as well. In exchange, we require that you link to us from your homepage. I’ve already linked to you from my site and will keep it there for a few days until I hear from you. Please let me know asap if you’re interested.
Thanks!
Take care… God Bless,
Matt said,
September 11, 2003 @ 4:02 pm
actually that email was from me.. oh wait.. my site doesn’t work.. buuuurrnnnnnn.
ass.
Eric said,
January 30, 2004 @ 5:49 pm
This is a variation of another one I have seen out there. I would REALLY like to know what tool they are using, so I could evaluate if it would be something I should use.
The biggest problem is that with all the variations on this spam, I have not found one that identifies the site that supposedly has alink to me. I have not tried replying to one, nor do I know what their true purpose is. (collect emails addresses of people who want to rank well at the search engines?)