According to Google, Webmasters must not respond to the ransom link spam attempts. These occur when website owners receive an email which says that if you don’t pay us, we will spam the website with a number of bad links which results in a negative impact on Google search.

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Twitter Responses By John Mueller:

Hi @JohnMu,
What should be my action toward this kind of a message? Should I just ignore it or buckle up to buy the product so he won't blast my site with spam links? pic.twitter.com/nqvwRrOd8e

— ADESANMI ADEDOTUN (@DotunBscMsc) October 12, 2019

Is there any thing to worry for me? received today, I have got from an other person as well about 2 months ago.

Thanks pic.twitter.com/DYcihm8MXa

— 90shopping Co LLC (@90shoppingco) October 13, 2019

John Mueller of Google says that users can avoid those ransom emails.