Affiliate Program Request for Participation

It is always interesting opening my inbox each morning!  Quite often there is a request from some company asking for my participation in their affiliate program.  Here is one that I recently received:

Hello,

I was looking at your website, and I thought it might be a good candidate for our affiliate program. We'll pay you 50% of each payment we receive from any customer you send our way. Our software helps couples struggling with infertility to get pregnant using natural methods.

[links and contact info removed]

Here is the problem.  I author 6 public blogs so anyone wanting to have be join their affiliate program who has obviously visited one of my blogs would know this.  Which blog do they think would be a good fit for their affiliate program?  I highly doubt it would be this blog!  I would certainly make the assumption they would have at least checked out my blog of interest then at the very least mentioned the name of the blog.  This may or may not have been a legitimate request.  I will never know.  I feel if the person requesting participation in their affiliate program (aka advertise) can't be bothered to include the name of my blog of interest then I'm not wasting my time replying to them.  I treat this type of solicitation as spam, delete it and move on. 

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