I've received a kind of e-mail that I can't decide whether to think of as helpful or dangerous. A person—but the style and form of the mail makes me think mb a bot—writes he has found a broken link on my blog. He's chased down a current link to the same resource (an academic paper). The new link is to a page on a rather random server. I wonder whether the plan isn't to point the link elsewhere once I've "fixed" it. (I found a more reliable link, used that rather than the suggested destination.)

@interfluidity Possible, but I think a more likely reason would be for SEO. By getting another website to link to that website, it drives the linked webpage's profile up in results, making scam sites appear more legitimate.

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