Archive for April, 2009
Pay to Read Emails - A Scam? You Bet they are.
Written by MichaelZ on April 30, 2009 – 3:33 am -
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The internet is awash with web sites that encourage you to read emails and get paid. Some of them offer to pay $2,000 for 70 seconds reading. Is this too good to be true, or what is the real story?
Make money online? Earn Two Thousand US Dollars Every Seventy Seconds?
Yup, that sure sounds good, but are pay to read emails a scam? That was the question several other friends and I started out with about 8 weeks ago in June 2008. We’re like plenty of people, struggling to pay the bills and trying real hard to learn how to make money on the internet, so when these rumors about a system where one got paid well to read email advertisements came along, we were very attentive.
What seemed very interesting was that they weren’t offering to pay a penny per email, or five pennies per email, but dollars. Lots of them. Not five dollars, not ten dollars, not fifty dollars, but two thousand dollars for spending 70 seconds watching each email! It seemed outrageous, and we blessed our good fortune for stumbling onto this very discreet program.
Before we dived in we did our due diligence and searched the internet for headlines such as the one you see above, ie email scam etc. Nothing. Not even a hint on discussion boards or blogs, just a ghostly silence. Ok, we thought, that’s not bad, no complaints. Maybe it is for real.
We tried to understand how such a program could exist, how it could pay that kind of money and survive. We theorized it might be a limited numbers corporate study group, watching how people responded to ads. We theorized it might be Russian mafia laundering money.
On the email web site there is a contact button, but emails sent with these questions enclosed brought no answers.
The Web Sites
Now the read email web sites are very professional looking, with nice graphics and well placed advertisements that scroll and change. A well presented members box where one can sign on and control where the emails go is at the top of the page. Everything looks, well, like someone spent plenty of time and money setting it up. In order to receive the credit that one builds up, paid US dollars via paypal or several other means no less, one has to build up a certain minimum sum in the account. Its always a large sum too, like half a million dollars, and they say one can expect to receive payment after a length of time has passed, in some cases 15 days, in other 60 days or two entire months.
They offer payout in cash, or in kind credits towards advertising using their sites. All the major money transfer websites we’re familiar with are represented; Paypal, Alert Pay, Liberty Reserve, E gold and E bullion to name a few.
Now, in order to receive all that lovely cash, not credits, quicker, if one signs up as a paid member, bronze, silver, gold and diamond, then the getting paid parameters become much shorter, ie $50,000 and 15 days. I decided that we should find out if this was for real sooner rather than later, instead of wasting months and months of clicking adverts, so I stuck out my $100 via paypal for a diamond membership, and overnight I was a member of Jacob mails.com.
The Ads Started Arriving
From the first day I received about 35 emails per day. Many of them were for other sites just like Jacob mails, but were paying different amounts per email, and with quicker or slower pay out times. The rest of the ads appear to be regular mainstream ads, the content of which we’re very familiar with on the internet; dating sites, get rich quick schemes, military recruiting ads, all sorts. When I pressed on any links within these they all were active and working and led to home sites all over the world.
With busy days I spent several hours each night clicking and opening the ads while I watched TV, and in about 3 weeks I had crossed the diamond member’s payout threshold of $50,000. All I had to do was put in my request, notify which account my money was to go into and then wait.
I Request my Earnings…
Well, I waited, and waited and waited.
You might guess how the rest of this goes.
After The Money Didn’t Show Up
I began emailing them politely pointing out that some oversight had led to the omission of my payment and could they, well, get with the program, I’m ready.
There was no answer of any kind to half a dozen emails asking for clarification and payment. In fact the only thing that happened was that the membership information box that I should fill out to request payment, has been removed, so that now I can’t even request any money.
E Mail Scam Investigated
After a few more weeks it has become clear that no payment would be forthcoming. I went over to paypal that I had used to pay my diamond membership. I intended to see whether paypal could recover my $100 fee, as they sometimes can.
When I looked closer at the transaction details, I saw that the payment goes to an individual in China, not to a company name. The name in my paypal is Lixin Wang, and it’s safe to assume he is the individual at the core of at least several of these scams.
‘Web Accept Payment Sent (Unique Transaction ID #7TW6XXXXX) Name: Lixin wang (The recipient of this payment is Non-U.S. - Verified) Email: lxinwng@gmail.com Payment Sent to: support@jacobmails.com ‘
I filed a complaint with paypal, they can be very active with fraudulent use of their service, but to this day, about 4 weeks later, I haven’t heard anything from them. Not even to acknowledge receipt of my email, even that is somewhat unusual, so, needless to say, there’s been no sign of a refund either.
Here are several names of ‘Pay to Read emails’ sites that I used, to no avail.
jacobmails.com/pages/index.php pink-mails.com/pages/index.php best-mails.com/pages/index.php hmailsmoney.com/pages/index.php pretty-mail.com/pages/index.php eagle-mails.com/pages/index.php ippomails.net/pages/index.php
When I wanted to upgrade an account, I discovered that many of the account numbers are the same account, despite being on different web sites.
Its safe to assume that nearly everyone of these sites are scams, and exist solely to skim off hundred dollar members fees as people like myself join up for the gold memberships. I’ve also read the idea that these sites somehow create fake high traffic flows to improve the online rankings of a different website.
Reportedly some websites do pay out, and one recognizes them by the one cent per email pay outs. But…there are even complaints about these sites too, that they will pay out some tiny amounts, and then cease any further payments.
Here is a link to sites that are known to have paid out; squidoo.com/ptcsites
Here is a link to known fraud sites; ptctalk.com/scamalert.php
After several thousand sold membership fees, there is real money being made from unsuspecting people.
If you want to see discussion boards about these scams, it’s hiding out under the words ‘pay to read’ or ‘pay to click’, or ‘ptc/ptr email scam’. Just type that into google and see what you get. There’s actually plenty of discussion about this, it’s just hiding behind the term, pay to click. You can copy and paste this link to your url bar;
Who Am I?
We decided that if these sites turned out to be a fake that it should be filed online somehow and made public, to warn others. I also have an interest in getting wealthy online and in investigating ‘get rich quick ‘ schemes I discovered that over a third of them have complaints against them with the Better Business Bureau and others. I created a large in depth website to make this information public.
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Marketing your biz on the net
Written by MichaelZ on April 29, 2009 – 2:08 pm -Sent by Teknatool Lathe. Do you want to get involved in marketing your business online? What strategies were you able to use to make it work? In marketing your business though the use of the Internet, what you need are few resources to help you succeed with it. You’ll be able to get access to strategies that are really beneficial in marketing your business. Every strategy has it’s own story in making businesses succeed. Although, whatever you use, together with your perseverance, you’d definitely succeed in marketing your business.
Now, what you need to think of is your ultimate goal. Essentially, the a successful attempt in marketing your business through the Internet is to make it to a point that you be able to obtain a stable traffic for your main website {so you will be able to keep track of your target market o be the basis of detecting the demographics of your target market}. You have to be patient in this kind of procedure. You have to put in mind that it is not that easy to reach your target that fast for your business, it will grow as long as you keep them interested in what you’re offering and you keep on finding them.
On the Internet, you will be able to find a lot of online users that can be your potential market. {You are not that sure who among them will visit your websiteYou hope you can read their minds, but you can’t, so you’d still don’t know who’s interested or not}. You should know how would you be able to get the attention of your potential clients and make them stay with your business. So, it’s best that you know where to use those strategies you have in mind in marketing your business to those potential clients which could bring the initial or additional profit to your business.
When you look forward to marketing your business you will have access to many tools and you have to take advantage of it at the soonest time possible. But rest assure that these tools are beneficial to your business and you should use them as long as they are available.
You may look into one of the most popular marketing strategies that you can use in marketing your business. Social networking is one strategy that you can try utilizing for marketing your business. Through this , you will have the capability of building your own network of friends for your business. How is that? You build up your own website via the use of Myspace, Squidoo or Facebook and then build your own profile from there. Choosing the desired network that you would like to join would be essential , and then after link them to yours. And this definitely is one easy way of keeping in touch with your target prospects and be friends with them as well.
Apart from there are plenty of new marketing strategies that you can apply in effectively marketing your business. Some may not be that easy and you need to exert more effort in performing some tasks, but they would surely work and give profit to you and your business.
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5 Things to Think About When Looking at a Free Dropshipper
Written by MichaelZ on April 29, 2009 – 2:07 pm -Using a dropshipping wholesaler is a tremendous substitute to stocking products yourself and is a great way to start selling via the Internet. It is important to consider using a free dropshippers supplier in order to avoid paying dropshipping fees that potentially cuts into your profits. A thorough investigation should be done on a dropshipping supplier before using them.
Following are five things to consider before you decide on which dropshippper to use:
1. No hidden charges - If there is a dropshipper claiming to provide free drop shipping, double check to ensure they are telling the truth. Find out if they charge you a monthly fee you have to pay, or some other charge that can hurt your profit margin.
2. Integrity - Your drop ship eBay supplier should be trustworthy and do what they say they will. They need to be able to deliver on their promises or your business will suffer.
3. Order processing time - Order fulfillment time has to be low in order that your customers get their products quickly. Your operation is the one that will gain a poor reputation if it takes forever to deliver orders to customers.
4. Returns - There needs to be a system in place for customer returns to be handled. Are they dealt with by your supplier, or do they expect you to handle the returns and worry about getting them back to the dropshipper?
5. Packing slip - All customer orders should contain a blank packing slip, or one that is customized to your business. The recipient should never know that you did not personally ship the item to them.
Going with the best drop shipping wholesalers supplier is a vital component to the strength of your online retail operation. Not having to pay for the services of a dropshipper is critical as it directly impacts your bottom-line. Go with a wholesaler that you can trust, who will not make you pay to use their drop shipping, and you have a better chance at being successful selling online.
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