Google Disavow wrong Sample URLs

[Apex-Lighting]

Sometime last year we were penalized for unnatural links by Google. We followed a couple of good posts on MOZ on how to go about correcting all of this (Excel Showing work, Google Docs,  Ahrefs, semrush, etc...) and submitted a reconsideration request as well as a list of urls using Disavow Tool.

So today, about 20 days later, we get a reply from Google stating that we still have some links that are outside their quality guidelines with 3 examples. Problem is, none of the 3 examples they listed have our website on them. I even did a View Source and checked all our inbound link reports for these websites. All of the 3 examples are Lawyer / Legal Advise websites and ours has nothing to do with this.

Any ideas on how to reply and ask them to double check? Maybe they mixed up with another account they were working on at the same time.

[WilliamKammer]

Google isn't good at continuing to check to see if links are live after they add them to your link profile. It's likely a link used to be there to your site, then was removed, but Google didn't update your link profile or bother to look to see if the link was there.

I ran into this exact issue about six months ago. It was solved within a couple weeks by updating the disavow report with those examples they listed, plus some others I found after going through the link profile with a stricter mindset on quality.

[KeriMorgret]

Have you tried browsing the site with the googlebot user agent? Could those sites have been hacked, and only show the spam if they think you're Google? I've seen that hack before, though don't know if any of those links have ever been in a sample bad link report from Google.