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Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:48 pm**

Not sure if this is spam, or an actual person trying to contact the forum admins. This person is emailing me thinking that I am a admin on this site. Looks like he wants to advertise here. If you want to take a look, here's the text output:

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RE: Factorio Forums ? View topic - Tapatalk
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Samuel jacobs <samueljacobs001@gmail.com>
Oct 13, 2018, 2:55 AM (2 days ago)
to me

Hi there,
I reached out last week but haven't heard back. I wanted to see if there was an opportunity to sponsor a post on your site.
Please see my initial email below.
Best wishes,
Samuel

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Samuel jacobs <samueljacobs001@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there,
I just read Factorio Forums ? View topic - Tapatalk, I've shown it to some colleagues and we think a collaboration between us could work well. 

I represent a digital marketing agency.  We would like to feature a unique piece of content on your site on behalf of our client. For the privilege, we'd be happy to pay you somewhere in the region of $75. Would you also be willing to accept link placements on pre-existing content on your site? Would you also be willing to accept link placements on pre-existing content on your site?

Let me know your thoughts.

Best wishes,

Samuel




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If the admins want to take it from here, please do. I need my professional email to be relatively free from spam, as I get messages concerning jobs and financials there.
Thanks.

Posted: **Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:13 pm**

Just googling this I found this (second request), this, and this so I have no idea if he's some annoying marketer who's looking to place online ads or if he's a spammer or even what the difference would be, but I thought I'd just put that out there.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:30 am**

This is a quite smart spam message.
Maybe is it a bot set up by those who broke into your email account last year, and saw you're receiving notifications from Factorio Forum ?
You can report it as spam, and forget it. You can also check the domain name of the unsubscribe link (without actually opening the link).

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:19 am**

That message reeks of spam so much i can smell it through my monitor. The superflous spaces, the doubling of sentence parts, the weird question marks, the fact that it cites "View Topic" as a topic. The fixed and low amount they're offering to pay, and the fact that they're even calling prices in the first email at all. I can't imagine this being anything else than someone trying to find a good platform to host his malicious code by automatically sending as many "offers" as he can. On my own domain i do get similar messages once in a while - and my domain doesn't host anything.

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:32 am**

a unique piece of content

You mean a unique piece of malware?
@Koub I'm guessing they just had a bot find his email in his signature.

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