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Advertising with LinkStar?


This arrived in my inbox today:

Hi ,

I work for Linkstar Media, a leading broker of online advertising, dealing with many thousands of independent webmasters worldwide. We currently have a client in the Telecoms industry for whom we are looking to acquire advertising from quality websites.

We've had a look at Wissel.net and think that it would be a good match for our client, whose target demographic is similar to 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 money bookers.

If you are interested, please get back to me with your rates etc. I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Jill Green


There was some more stuff below the fold, might be a disclaimer or so, but I never bothered to scroll further down. Feels fishy. Anybody knows who they are?

Posted by on 20 February 2009 | Comments (4) | categories: After hours

Comments

  1. posted by Bruce Elgort on Saturday 21 February 2009 AD:
    Got the same email. Moved to SPAM.
  2. posted by ace on Thursday 02 July 2009 AD:
    I was contacted by Linkstar earlier today. I do find it suspicious that an online advertising agency wants to put ads on my site, considering that my site is not a high page ranking one.

    I did research on Linkstar and I don't know what to believe with all the good and bad reviews I've read. I do not know if I would even want to deal with Linkstar, considering that Linkstar hasn't been in business that long.

    There are too many scams that are being pulled with text link advertising and Google is known to ax sites from their engine without warning or an explanation as to why.

    I might have considered Linkstar had I found more positive reviews and experiences from others.
  3. posted by Michel on Monday 28 December 2009 AD:
    Michel said...

    Indeed this seems to be a way to allow advertisers to increase their ranking with search engines. I wrote an article here,

    { Link }

  4. posted by kING on Monday 11 January 2010 AD:
    DO NOT BELIEVE LINKSTAR. IT IS A FAKE. LINKSTAR SENT ME A SIMILAR MAIL TO THE ONE PRESENTED ABOVE. ITS A SCAM. AFTER PLACING THEIR AD FOR A WEEK, THE PAYMENT NEVER CAME. I KNOW OF OTHER BLOGS WHERE PEOPLE ARE BEING ADVISED THAT THEY ARE GOOD...BLAH.BLAH... BUT THOSE ARE FAKED. LLINKSTAR IS FAKE. LINKSTAR IS SPAM. TO HELL WITH LINKSTAR. LINKSTAR IS STUPIDLY... OH MY GOD. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY. TO HELL WITH THOSE SUCKERS

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