Google Manual Penalty Notification But Google Says No Manual Penalty...

Google Manual Penalty Notification But Google Says No Manual Penalty...
A webmaster posted in the WebmasterWorld forums that he received a manual spam notification for "unnatural links" from Google on June 27th. He cleaned things up and quickly submitted a reconsideration request. Shortly after, on July 3rd, he received the response not that the penalty was revoked but rather there was no penalty to begin with.

How can it be that he received a message days before saying he had a penalty but then be told there was no penalty?

Author: Barry Schwartz