(Entry was posted by Leanne White on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/22/2020).

SEO Hitman Service?

So I got this email saying "Ever wanted to push some prick ranks down for not playing the game fair? Now you can" and then their website which I won`t put here but it is a company that says it utilizes sophisticated link building technologies to attack web pages with negative spam links. So you pay them a fee to point from 200, 000 - to 1.5 million Negative Backlinks to your Competitions website depending on how much you pay. It is a little disconcerting that someone is advertising this sort of crap that could potentially destroy someone`s website and business. Is there a way of reporting their website or is it just another scam - how would you point 1.5 million negative links to a website?

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George G.: google gsa ser. this is how you point the links. its mostly useless tho. i seriously doubt it they can do any harm.
Todd Weise: This is why we canâ€™t have nice things.
Jeremy L. Knauff: Except it wonâ€™t hurt them. ðŸ¤·â€â™‚ï¸
Mike Stewart: Jeremy L. Knauff
Devin Peterson: This has been well known to the search engines for a while and I`m confident they`ve taken measures to mitigate the harm outsiders are able to do. Sounds like a waste of money for the saboteurs.
Abbas Ali: Various auto link building software can do this. They use multiple proxies. but google is saying that bad links are automatically ignored. not sure I believe that, but that`s the most recent advice.
Abbas Ali: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ignore-link-spam...
David Morgan: There`s a way to have those links that are determined to work against you to work in your favor.
Tim Capper: In truth we dont quite actually know how it will 100% affect a site (that quantitiy)

On the positive side, Google wont find them all at once, especially because they are such crap, it may take G months to find even half of them.

Just due your due diligence every couple of months and add the domains you find to your disavow list for peace of mind.
Christine Hansen: Perhaps Google would like to know about this company?!