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« on: October 23, 2012, 14:57 »
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Today I  received an email enquiry but honestly, I think this is spam. Anybody any idea ?

> Hi,
>
> I found your site & was intrigued by your photography.  I thought your site might be a good fit for a text ad I'd like to put up.  I can pay you through Paypal if that's alright.  If you're interested at all, please let me know, and I'll send you some more information to look over.
>
> Thanks,

> Karen :)
>
>
> --------------------------------------
> Karen McManus
 


« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2012, 15:06 »
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Hve her to "I'll send you some more information to look over."

« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2012, 15:15 »
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Might not be spam. You don't want to ignore a potential client. Tell her you have many photos available to license as stock and ask her which photo(s) she's interested in & to send you more information.

Good luck. Hope it's for real. -Marianne 8)

ShadySue

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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2012, 15:59 »
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Might not be spam. You don't want to ignore a potential client. Tell her you have many photos available to license as stock and ask her which photo(s) she's interested in & to send you more information.

Good luck. Hope it's for real. -Marianne 8)
She's not interested in buying stock. She wants to put an ad on his site.
I'd be 99.9% sure it's a spammer.

« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2012, 16:07 »
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Might not be spam. You don't want to ignore a potential client. Tell her you have many photos available to license as stock and ask her which photo(s) she's interested in & to send you more information.

Good luck. Hope it's for real. -Marianne 8)
She's not interested in buying stock. She wants to put an ad on his site.
I'd be 99.9% sure it's a spammer.

I just thought their English grammar was poor - but re-reading it I see what you mean.

« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2012, 16:31 »
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Might not be spam. You don't want to ignore a potential client. Tell her you have many photos available to license as stock and ask her which photo(s) she's interested in & to send you more information.

Good luck. Hope it's for real. -Marianne 8)
She's not interested in buying stock. She wants to put an ad on his site.
I'd be 99.9% sure it's a spammer.

I just thought their English grammar was poor - but re-reading it I see what you mean.

It's actually the title of the thread that is misleading. It says to "sell photo". I guess the OP didn't understand what was being asked by the contact.

ShadySue

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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2012, 16:32 »
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Might not be spam. You don't want to ignore a potential client. Tell her you have many photos available to license as stock and ask her which photo(s) she's interested in & to send you more information.

Good luck. Hope it's for real. -Marianne 8)
She's not interested in buying stock. She wants to put an ad on his site.
I'd be 99.9% sure it's a spammer.

I just thought their English grammar was poor - but re-reading it I see what you mean.

I've got previous of this spam or scam. I got two emails to my campaign site, saying they were a 'good fit' with the site, and they'd write me an 'original' article related to the site, and wouldn't charge anything, we just had to host an advert (unspecified).
I actually wrote back to them to point out that:
1. If they'd looked for two seconds at the site, they'd have seen that we have won our case, so what point could 'an article' serve?
2. If they'd looked for ten seconds at the site, they'd have seen we have no adverts, and probably deduced that that was by choice.

« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2012, 16:51 »
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I think it's spam. And the ad they want to put up is probably porn.  :o

« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2012, 17:42 »
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I get these all the time and never bothered to answer.

Even if it wasn't spam they believe that since you're running a "small" photography site they can pay you $20 for year long spot on your homepage as advertising space.

Even if it was $1000 a year I wouldn't want to have some ads on my site promoting everlasting life or anything of that sort...

Your call.

« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2012, 17:50 »
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No risk to find out more -- i've had several of these -- basically they're usually looking to insert some paid text on your site.  they target webpages with high google page rank. 

nothing to lose - they already have your email, and you have full control of any text they want to insert.

steve

« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2012, 18:21 »
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Probably not spam - they want to put a link on some text on your web page - or modify the text to put a link in and will pay a certain amount for it. You can decide if you are willing to have the links for what they are willing to pay - it is up to you. The fact that they pay via paypal makes it pretty safe for you, and if you don't like the offer, just say no.

(I myself have added a few links to some of my web pages and been paid), other links I said were too far off the mark and didn't put them in. It is a bit mercenary, but so is selling pics for cheap at microstock.

As the previous poster said - I think they want a page that has high google page rank so that the paid links will be worthwhile - possibly to increase the page rank of the pages they link to.

« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2012, 02:25 »
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Thank  you all for the info and yes indeed I misunderstood the email. I've returned an email asking for more info, see what happens.


 

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