keep yourself from this fraud – pay you up to thousands dollar/month

This afternoon, I got an email in my box, the content of it is as follows:

Hi,

We’ve seen your website at http://richspy.com/
and we love it!

We looked at your traffic rank and your link popularity.

With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month
to advertise our links on your website.

If you’re interested, read our terms from this page:

http://urlm.in/bwqu

Sincerely,

Ralph Arcamone
The ContactThem Network

After reading this mail, I realized it must be a fraud, but still I tried to visit the URL “http://urlm.in/bwqu”, it redirected to http://shrinkthislink.com/protected, ShrinkThisLink is a free service. It helps you by saving you from a spam-borne threat, it told me:

… you have been brought to this page instead of the page requested, as the link you clicked was used as part of a spam-based attempt to either scam you or infect your computer with a virus or trojan. If you came here from a link in an email, we didn’t send it – we’ve just protected you from this threat. ShrinkThisLink is a free service, intended to make sharing links easier – but unfortunately, every now and again, a spammer will abuse our service to hide the address of the website they really want you to visit.

From this information, I was sure that email is a scam, however, I’m not sure if it was sent by ShrinkThisLink, it was possible, just like some antivirus software producers are Viral manufacturers. Scams are ubiquity, be careful to protect yourself from scams.