Should I be worried if a couple of sites that I don't want to be associated with are linking to me?

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Recently I found two porn websites linking to my site. I disavow those links and wrote to admins asking them to remove those links but... what can I do if someone, (my competition), is trying to harm me with bad backlinks?
Jay, Spain

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