Is this some kind of a scam??? Maybe, I have been too sick to figure this out But

[Bobbieo]

it makes no sense to me.

Hello Webmaster,

I am webmaster of several leading Job and Employment websites; I've found your website information and advice to be a very good fit for our visitors so could you please give us the best price for a site wide link on your esteemed website for a period of half and 1 Year? We will make payments Via PayPal so if interested, please mention your PayPal id.


If we are happy with your price, then we will send you the Link details that you can place on your website and we will make the payments to the PayPal id provided by you.


Regards,
Peter Freeman

[Luminous Animal]

1. Yes.

[blogslut]

2. Sounds iffy

Ask them for links to their Job and Employments sites. As well, tell them you won't be giving out your paypal info until you have more complete contact information such as a phone number, a business name and a physical address.

If it were me, I would dump them in the junk folder.

[Bobbieo]

3. It is almost 2 am and I suffer from insomnia and I have no Playpal

information and "yes" this is a scam - thank you very much, folks!!!

Jeez - they never stop do they!

[NWHarkness]

4. Don't ask them for anything

Don't even reply. If they did send you a link, it could be a trap to capture your info.

[AndyA]

5. Site wide links on your site will hurt YOUR SITE in the search engines.

Google and the others are getting pretty good at detecting paid links, and they don't like them. They will penalize your site's rankings.

Just say no.

[Berry Cool]

6. This one's pretty obvious.

1. They don't know your name, nor do they mention any specifics about your Web site or why they think it's such a good fit for their visitors--so you know this is a massively spammed message, trolling for suckers.

2. They capitalize at random and use awkward or just stupid English ("for a period of half and 1 Year," "your esteemed website"), which is proof positive that they're from some other country, most likely Nigeria, home of the scam.

3. They want your PayPal ID. They don't need your PayPal ID to pay you. If you've ever used PayPal to make a payment online, you know you don't need the recipient's PayPal ID to pay someone; the recipient just needs to be set up to accept PayPal payments. The only possible reason they can want your PayPal ID is to gain access to your PayPal account and clean out your source of funds.

Do not reply, unless it's to screw with them, which some people like to do with scammers.

[jmowreader]

7. This is what you tell 'em...

1. As my website is both extremely popular and extremely valuable, the charge is Four Million Nigerian Naira per website for me to evaluate your websites for possibly being linked to my extremely popular website.

2. If your websites meet my demanding and unattainable standards, the charge for half and 1 year's rental of a space for a web link will be Nineteen Million Nigerian Naira. The Four Million Nigerian Naira charge for evaluating your website is not refundable should your website not meet my standards. I evaluated over two hundred websites last year and none of them met my standards. Perhaps your site will be the one.

3. As my attorney, Perry Mason, has advised me that Pay Pal is a good way to get ripped off, I demand that the Nigerian Naira be brought to me by couriers. As my country's mail system is corrupt and unreliable, you must fly to the United States, and visit me at my home: 4700 Bureau Road South, Terre Haute, Indiana. I recommend you tape the money to your body so the corrupt security people at the airport cannot find it, and be sure you fly on a one-way ticket with no luggage. I will get you home when you get here, so do not worry. Due to many threats on my life because of my wealth and fame, I now have many bodyguards. You must report to one of them and ask to see me. To make sure no one finds out my residence, I go by an alias. When you report to the guard, please ask to see "Jeffrey Dahmer." I have ordered my guards to inform all visitors that I am dead, although I am not as you can see by me writing you. It is then you will use the secret pass phrase, which is "God Damn You Fucking Screw My Name Is Osama Bin Laden and I Must See Jeffrey Dahmer Right Fucking Now." They will immediately take you inside.

(It's not really funny until you google that address.)

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. or they could ask for Leonard Peltier

at that address.

Very clever response, btw.....

[jmowreader]

9. It's got to be Dahmer

There are four hundred and nineteen reasons your correspondent needs to tape $100,000 worth of Nigerian money to his body and go to the guardhouse of the Terre Haute Federal Pen demanding to see a dead guy...