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Fake Ad: Work At Home Jobs (Exposed)

February 20th, 2012 | Comments Off

As many times as I tell myself to let it go, sometimes one of those annoying, fake Pulse 360 ads just rubs me the wrong way. Today’s beauty featured three of the typical ads pushed by these guys: A wrinkle cream ad, which we’ve already discussed here, a loan modification ad, and one claiming to be from my city about work-at-home jobs. The latter of these ads particularly struck me as offensive, so I’ll discuss this ad and the associated site.

Strike 1 – Fake headline
The headline reads: “Henderson: Work-At-Home Jobs (EXPOSED)” while the ad text reads, “We’ve investigated Work-At-Home jobs, and what we found may…”

It already smacks as phony, particularly because they used my city’s name in the headline. Web browsers can easily identify the city from which you are accessing the internet, and clever programmers can insert your city’s name into the ad. I’m sure if I was in Chicago, the ad would use that city in the headline. So already we have an ad that is misleading, before we’ve even clicked on it.

Do yourself a favor and avoid ads like these from Pulse360.

Strike 2 – Affiliate Marketing
Clicking on the ad takes us to the url “http://careeraccessjournal.com/index.php?c=16&aff_id=1″ which you can tell is an affiliate link. Affiliate marketing is the scourge of the internet. Sure, there are many legitimate ones out there, but when you take into consideration this affilate is using Pulse 360 and using a fake headline, it starts to add up to a waste of time.

Strike 3 – As Seen On…
After we click the site, we immediately see “As Seen On MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, ABC, CBS News and New York Times.” Sure, they were seen advertising on those sites. That doesn’t mean those sites have endorsed or given any attention to this product or affiliate. This is a common tactic used by affiliates.

Strike 4 – Fake Blog
Looking at this site, it is clear that this is a fake blog template, used for years by affiliate marketers. They change a few details, but the rest of the site is completely fake. To their credit, this affiliate does admit that the site is fake, albeit in small gray type at the bottom:

It is important to note that this site and the comments/answers depicted above is to be used as an illustrative example of what some individuals have achieved with this/these products. This website, and any page on the website, is based loosely off a true story, but has been modified in multiple ways including, but not limited to: the story, the photos, and the comments. Thus, this page, and any page on this website, are not to be taken literally or as a non-fiction story.

Chances are you can find this exact same template duplicated dozens of times. Running a Tineye.com search on the photo used on the site, we see that it was a stock photo and has  been used by several similar sites. Sites such as homejobsnews.com are exact duplicates of this template, with minor details changed – such as $4000 a month instead of $8000 a month in earnings for the same mom pictured.

Any site that won't even let you leave isn't the kind of place with which you'd want to do business.

Strike 5 – Mutli-Step BS
Almost all of these phony blogs have a “two step” recipe for success, which of course is merely fabricated by the creator of the site’s template. In this case, both of the steps point to Freedom Agency Online, which tells us we can make $87 an hour from home and ask us to fill in our contact information so they can check for availability.

I entered in obviously fake information, and yet they still told me there were positions available to me:
Congratulations!
There Are Currently 2 Positions Left In Henderson.
Read The Job Report Below To See If You Qualify

After a long, rambling one-page sales pitch, we never really see the two positions promised at the top of the page.

Strike 6 – Don’t Leave!
The final blow in this series of annoyances was the “Don’t leave” pop-up that greeted me when I attempted to close the browser tab.

There is no reason to click such ads, nor to give these uncaring affiliates your personal information.

Further Reading:
Here are some other sites using the same template or the same text. Compare to the one advertised above, if you can handle all of the annoying popups you’ll get along the way.

 

 

 

 

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