[Mihai]

Recently I have came across somebody threatening a possible competitor with link bombing of his website - respectively link spamming so that Google would pick that up and lower the value of the target website in SERPs.

Now I have a few questions:

- Not being able to control who links to you, would Google penalize a website if such an attack happens ?
- What is to be done in order to protect / report such happenings and avoid being blackmailed by spammers ?

Thank you all for your time and experience.