Advertising is an age-old craft… almost as old as deception. And the two married together often create the modern sales pitch. Here is a list of some of the more commonly used, and most deceptive, advertising terms.
“We need MacBook users. We’ll give you a MacBook to use/keep. Tell us what you think of it. Current free Mac is the green air.”
That’s how the ad goes. Of course there’s another identical ad on the same page that says the current free Mac is the blue one. But it sounds great, doesn’t it? [...]
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You’ve seen the ads. Hopefully you haven’t taken the tests. It’s the IQ test scam, and they hope your ego will force you to take this test while breezing past the small details such as the “terms” on [...]
They’re testing the waters again with a new one.
I ran across a new “make money” offer I hadn’t seen yet. Instead of making money on Google, this one promises “QuickCash from Craigslist.” Hmmm. Sure sounds familiar. It’s like they just took out “Google” and substituted it with “Craigslist.” Brilliant minds at work once again.
I was [...]
I had so much fun with the Acai/Cleanse fake diet girls that I thought I’d compile a similar photo album of our favorite Google/Grant scam photo models. Because there were so many, I decided to put them into a few categories. It is a good visual of just how ridiculous these scams are, reusing the [...]
This is a sort of addendum to my Google/Grants scam list. That page contains a list of the sites pushing these products, and a short description. I recommend it if you haven’t see it yet.
The lists on this page are a sort of reverse-lookup of these sites. The first two lists are what the blogs [...]
I’ve started seeing a new fake blog being advertised the past couple days. This one has all of the hallmarks of the phony blog, including the exact same picture of the “Huff” persona from the fake Acai/Cleanse blogs. But today’s new scam isn’t for Acai/Cleanse, Google Cash, or the rest I’ve talked about so [...]
The following reviews are based on my personal experiences. Your experience with these companies may be different.
I’ve had three different car insurance companies in the last year: AIG, Progressive, and Travelers. Here’s a quick rundown of my experience with each one:
One of the most ingenious scams is to create an anti-scam website, and promote only “approved” products… which themselves are scams or of dubious credibility.
The concept isn’t new, and shouldn’t be surprising.
The net is rife with scams such as government grants, making money on Google, teeth whitening, and the Acai/Cleanse scams. There are also endless phony “review” sites for the products above. But that leads me to wonder, what will the next big scam be, and can we see signs of it already?
First of all, most [...]