I recently received this email:

Hello I am REDACTED and I am a member of some financial communities. I just visited your site (alexking.org) and I am a frequent reader of your site. The articles of your blog is really worth reading. The quality of your content is excellent. After seeing this, I would like to request you something. I love to write financial articles and I would like to contribute something for your site if you’ll give me the permission. I can give you an original guest post and I assure you that it will be published only in your site. If you want, you can suggest me the topic also and I will write accordingly. Please let me know your thoughts. Waiting for your positive reply. Reach me at: REDACTED[at]gmail[dot]com

My reply:

Hi–

I’d consider posting a thoughtful, well-written piece about why you shouldn’t accept guest posts on your blog.