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Spam of the day part 438!

5/15/2009

These bastards are still emailing me… now with a new name "Lily Holmes" — just got a half dozen of these.

Bastards. 
jcal

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Lily Holmes <lily.holmes@reckner.info>
Date: Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Subject: Link Exchange proposal between your site mahalo.com and my site
To: Mahalo <privacy@mahalo.com>

Hi

My name is Lily Holmes. I've just visited your website  mahalo.com  and
I was wondering if you'd be interested in exchanging links with my
website. I can offer you a HOME PAGE link back from my Gambling and
Betting website which is http://www.reckner.info/

As mentioned, your link would be placed on the site home page, not on
any "links" pages which may be buried in the site somewhere. I'm sure
this exchange would be benefitial for both of our sites, helping
towards increasing our visibility in search engines.

If you are interested, please add the following information to your
website and kindly let me know when it's ready. I'll do the same for
you in less than 24 hours, otherwise you can delete my link from your
site.

Title: Online Betting
URL: http://www.freebettingonline.co.uk/
Description: All the bookmakers and their free bets in one place.

I hope you have a nice day and thank you for your time.
Best regards;

Lily Holmes
Web Marketing Consultant

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A SPAM OR AUTOMATED EMAIL, IT'S ONLY A
REQUEST FOR A LINK EXCHANGE. YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS NOT BEEN ADDED TO
ANY LISTS, AND YOU WILL NOT BE CONTACTED AGAIN.IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE
SURE WE DON'T CONTACT YOU AGAIN, PLEASE FILL IN THE FOLLOWING FORM:
HTTP://WWW.NOMOREMAILS.COM; OR WRITE AN EMAIL TO STOP@NOMOREMAILS.COM.
PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES FOR CONTACTING YOU.

  • http://www.nibbana.net Charles Nibbana

    So why are you publishing these bits of spam on your homepage? It appears as if you are indirectly taking part in the link exchange scheme. Kinda shady.

  • http://ariwriter.com/2009/05/emailing-me-internet-marketing-spam/ AriWriter

    Emailing Me Internet Marketing Spam…

    //
    I’m accustomed to receiving email spam, but internet marketing pitches are a new breed because they arrive in my inbox, not my spam folder.
    The good ones are personable and hard to tell…

  • http://kikolani.com/ Kikolani

    I have to agree with Charles… not about the shady part, but
    although you are trying to shame the spammer by posting the
    email, you have effectively given them what they wanted by
    posting the link to their site. They don’t really care
    what context you put it in… you just gave them credit for
    that link.

    ~ Kristi

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Hello, my name is Jason. Welcome to my blog on the interwebs. You can reach me on twitter @jason and by email at jason@calacanis.com. My Skype is jasoncalacanis, and my mobile phone is 310-456-4900.

I only pick up numbers I recognize, and in terms of emailing me, the best strategy is to write short, blunt and to the point requests. I can quickly respond to short messages, and many times I simply don't have the time to read five page pitches. In terms of taking meetings, I only do that after reviewing an actual product (not a business plan). So, the best time to ping me is when you have mockups or an alpha site. I don't read business plans, and I've never written one.

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