[Dennis]

Got this email today:

Hi Dennis,

I work for Linkstar, a leading broker of online advertising, dealing with many thousands of independent webmasters worldwide.

I've had a look at Carpetcleaningcompany.co.uk and I think that it would be a good match for our client, whose target and demographic are similar with yours. We're working on their behalf to acquire advertising from quality websites such as your own.

We would be interested in purchasing advertising in the form of a text-based link on your site. To reduce unnecessary admin and hassle, we prefer to pay a fixed annual upfront fee for such advertisements. Once the ad has been placed, payment can be made quickly by PayPal or or moneybookers.

If you are interested, please get back to me with your rates etc.

Thank you for your time in reading our proposals and hope to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,

Sounds reasonable doesn't it?

Well I'm a suspicious sod, so did a bit of Googling.
I would never presume to tell people how to run their business but if you get the email and are tempted read this: http://blogs.computerworld.com/web_advertising_linkstar and this: http://blogs.computerworld.com/seo_text_link_scams

Cheers

[derek west]

good post dennis.
anyone who gets weird calls like this should post them on here so we know in future. must admit i wouldn't of gone for it myself, no such thing as easy money but good of you to post for others, and the blogs were quite interesting, still not sure how it all works though.
derek