How not to make money being online.
Watch out for the latest craze that will flood your email inbox if you are a website owner!
Here is an example of what hit my inbox yesterday…
Hi,
We’ve seen your website at http://www.theworkathomeplace.com/
and we love it!We see that your traffic rank is 799180
and your link popularity is 34.
Also, you have been online since 2/20/2006.With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month
to advertise our links on your website.If you’re interested, read our terms from this page. http://www.contactthem.ws (sorry you will have to copy and paste this, it does not deserve a link)
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Sounds interesting don’t it?
I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on those links and put then on my web page. After all it did not cost me any money, and look at the income that I would get.
Further checking I found the only thing they were selling was a software package that finds websites like mine and yours if you own one and sends out the nice letters above.
This is the latest craze in spamming websites to place links on our webpage. Others who do not own websites can join for around $49.95/ month to get software to spam more sites and so on and so on. Your cut would be around 20% for putting the links on your site
Finding this out I quickly removed the ads that look a little like Google ads from my website. I HATE SPAM and was almost conned into helping promote it.
If you haven’t got an email from them and you own a website it wont be long before you get them. I had 3 more today.
If you are starting a home based business there are many other ways to make money being online than falling for a spamming software package and loosing your reputation.
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by John Chatterton
Filed under: Tricks & Tips, Work at Home
Wow. That’s pretty bad!
I like to only respond to emails that look like some effort was put into it, and definitely not generic. Gotta watch out for that “good” offer, haha thanks
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