Comments on: Carphone Warehouse is now sending spam to ask for blog spam.

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:36:01 +0000

[...] we hope to help expose Carphone Warehouse, thanks to our reader David Gerard. Here is David’s summary of the incident: This just arrived and appears genuine. Carphone Warehouse are (a) sending spam (b) to request [...]

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:30:37 +0000

Of course. But this is spam from a real company.

By: PoonArmy

PoonArmy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:49 +0000

Have you never received a link request before?

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:22:41 +0000

Ooh, quite correct. I’ve instead added a link to last time they were busted spamming.

By: Denny

Denny — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:14:54 +0000

Did you not just give them the most significant part of what they want, i.e. a link to their site from your blog? You might want to NOFOLLOW that.