Look familiar?: "Click here to Claim your FREE Xbox360" or "Plasma TV"? Find out what's really behind these offers.
Alexander Dupre
"Claim your new (latest electronic gadget) now". We've seen all those emails offering expensive merchandise, but what and who is behind them??
They clog our mailboxes making these wild claims, but what's the catch and why would any advertiser bother making such outrageous claims, knowing that most people will know better than to fall for some gimmick that sounds too good to be true?
I did some investigating when I had some free time one day just to see what the scam was. While doing so, I actually MADE some money (explained below). The following is what I learned. There are numerous websites on the internet that exist for the sole purpose of catering to advertisers who want to reach people on the internet anyway they can.
So these websites spring up and neatly list numerous attractive-looking offers on their site, each offer comprised of a small box ad or business card sized ad that is pleasing to the eye and spells out the benefits of their product or service, and if you click on the attractive little box ad, you will be re-directed to the advertiser's website, where you can "sign up for a free trial" to their "foreclosure listing service" or download their "Internet Profits Revealed" e-Book.
Where they CAN get you is when you give them your credit card number, which they use to bill you for $1.00 "for the first 14 days" or $1.95 shipping, and if you don't cancel their service, you get billed for more serious money, like $39.95 monthly.
So, where does the "Free Plasma TV" come into this scheme? That's the incentive to get you to even visit the website that lists all those various "free trial" offers. Nobody in their right mind would waste their time visiting these sites UNLESS there was some financial and/or material incentive to do so. In fact these sites are called "Incentivized Freebie Websites".
Upon further investigation, I found a site that actually has an active "trader's forum" where people will PAY you $20-$30 or more (through PayPal) to visit an Incentivized Freebie Website because the person paying you actually gets the Plasma TV, or, in many cases, cash ($120-$400, or more) paid to them,through PayPal, from the freebie website.
They might need to send the website 3 different people to collect a juicey cash prize, or in some cases 10 people for more expensive "gifts" that the websites can certainly afford since many people will forget to call the toll-free number to cancel their memberships in the various services I wrote about earlier. It's a very lucrative business for the advertisers, however, I found out that people who take advantage of the advertisers can make good money, too.
Just for fun, I logged into the "trader's forum" to see if I could find someone to pay ME $20 to visit a "Freebie Website" and found there were MANY people offering me money to do so.
So, being a true capitalist, I tried it. The person I met in the forum gave me a link to the advertiser's website and I had to sign up for 2 "free trials" to get paid the $20, so I did. The Advertising website automatically notifies the person "hiring" you to visit the site when you sign up for the "free trial services", and guess what? I actually got paid the $20 as promised, through my PayPal account.
Now here is where you take advantage of the advertiser: you wait about 5 or 6 days, then you call and CANCEL the service, so you don't get billed.
The person who paid you doesn't care that you cancelled, because by that time, they sent enough people to the Freebie site to get their cash prize or the merchandise they wanted.
Just a notebook or pad of paper to keep track of the name of the ad offer and their phone number is all I used and it worked. No problem! I got my $20 and didn't have to pay for a service that I didn't want or need. Just a little simple record keeping and that's it.
Did I mention that the site where the "trading forum" is located costs NOTHING to join? It took me about 10 minutes to pick out a couple ads to "sign up" for and that's it. $20 bucks on one "job", then I tried it again with another "trader" and I got $27 that time. Easy extra money.
If YOU want the link to the "trader's forum" to make some extra money for yourself, I'll give it to you right here: www.projectpayday.com/go/802632 It's FREE to sign up (otherwise I sure wouldn't have done it). Enjoy! Alex
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