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                                    Odd spam
                                        
Sometimes I'll get a spam that intrigues me, and this one received several
days ago was one of those:

> From: Milo Dlacour <milo@blue-note.co>
> To: sean@conman.org
> Subject: Great idea for you and your website conman.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:51:07 +0000
> 
> Hello, lovely to meet you.
> 
> My name is Milo,I have visited conman.org for some time now and have only
> just plucked up the courage to ask if you would ever like to host any
> content written by me, I would love to hear if you are interested.
> 
> I am not asking to be paid for this work in factit would be quite the
> opposite. If you would like to discuss this further please do get back to
> me.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Milo Dlacour
> 
> Marketing Manager
> 
> Blue-Note Marketing
> 
> milo@blue-note.co
> 
> If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, please go to: http://blue-
> note.co/unsubscribe/?eid=84558a5997ece5c0ab678f5d4b632c35cc43082467c40­
> 1af345f3337729e1585&bid=5f437b5e6fddba6112c1baf3a1e3891907050f126­
> 2bfef15c2142604962349c4&ye=sean@conman.org
>  IDENT: 5f437b5e6fddba6112c1baf3a1e3891907050f1262bfef15c2142604962349c4-
> 84558a5997ece5c0ab678f5d4b632c35cc43082467c401af345f3337729e1585
> 

It's not often I get email asking to write content for my site for seemingly
nothing in return. Well, most likely it's a link back to their website or
something, but still, something about this made me check out the website.

Milo Dlacour does not appear to warrant a mention on their website [1]. How
odd.

I would have put this out of my mind as a “random semi-odd piece of spam” if
it wasn't for this spam the next day:

> From: Ryan Atkin <ryan@pink-dog.eu>
> To: sean@conman.org
> Subject: Great idea for you and your website conman.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:09:12 +0000
> 
> Good Morning!
> 
> It's nice to meet you, we are a fairly new company built up of really
> experienced writers and some other people who specialise in Technical
> Website things such as Rankings.
> 
> I have a really great article and would love to know if you would be able
> to host it for me. Drop me a mail when you see this and we can go into more
> detail!
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Ryan Atkin
> 
> Digital Outreach Agent
> 
> ryan@pink-dog.eu
> 
> This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message
> in error, please notify us and remove it from your system.
> 
> If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, please go to:
> http://www.pink-dog.eu/unsubscribe/?eid=10552c364e61e818207f5dabd7f99­
> 9dba53c14037efcd6f7ca309494c37ba92c&bid=5f4805933fa470ad72ceaf8e4­
> 1afd241c164dfcaf94c1e340a5da39914117e36&e=sean@conman.org
>  IDENT: 5f4805933fa470ad72ceaf8e41afd241c164dfcaf94c1e340a5da39914117e36-
> 10552c364e61e818207f5dabd7f999dba53c14037efcd6f7ca309494c37ba92c
> 

Again, the free offer for content for my site, the call to “discuss things”
but this time, Ryan Atkin is listed on their website [2].

While the two [3] websites [4] certainly look different, to me, they feel the
same. The spams are very similar to each other, so much that I'm wondering if
it's the same company. And I can't quite figure out the angle they're going
for here. It's very strange.

[1] http://blue-note.co/meet-us/
[2] http://www.pink-dog.eu/team/
[3] http://blue-note.co/
[4] http://www.pink-dog.eu/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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