Milo, at this point I don't think their M.O. is a big deal (although I can understand the curiosity of it). It could be nefarious, or someone trying to "help", or neither. Your problem now is the email address they used will soon be useless. Nothing good comes out of these types of submissions. Your link(s) will rotate off in matter of days, maybe even hours. Even if they did not, very few actually go to these places and look at the links for potential sellers of their interest. What you do get, is your email address attacked by every parasite in existence.

Over a decade ago, I used to submit my sites using these methods. A year later I was still getting useless irrelevant BS from every cyber-terrorist and "blue pill" selling parasite on the planet. I had to delete the email address and create a new one.

And don't think G is "onto" anything. Your competitors can very easily ruin you in G using these methods, (and other SE's as well), and G couldn't care less.

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-Clint
(Join Date: 2003)