Tag Archive: scammer

Justice Prevails: Scammers Finally Get Their Comeuppance

About 2 and a half years ago, I wrote a post exposing a series of e-book scams that were plaguing the Internet. These scams all had the same claim, that a few mere grocery items would help cure various diseases. That led to a series of followup posts and email from people expressing their thanks…

Why Affiliate Marketers are Scum of the Earth and Should Rot in Hell

Typical Acai Berry Scam Ad

There were several advertising networks I used to deliver ads to my blog here, and for a while I had a pretty good setup going, to the point that with a little more traffic I could actually earn a decent secondary income, and maybe some day live off my blog altogether. A few of them…

Update on Natural Cures Scam (Traced to Singapore?)

A while back I dissected a series of scam sites that were touting natural cures for a variety of illnesses that involved using nothing more than grocery items. The scammer was using quite a few different aliases (male and female) and even now his real identity remains a mystery. I received an email though that…

Update on GERD Scams

I updated my GERD, Shingles and Ulcers Scam post with some new information I received from readers. It’s amazing just how many of these sites are out there… maybe hundreds, and all being perpetrated by just one person too. There’s no way to keep track of them all, other than to just exercise some common…

Natural Cure For Shingles – Or Not

Previously, I wrote a post pointing out several suspicious sites that were offering natural cures for shingles, GERD, ulcers and genital warts, all written by the same person. It was ranking pretty well on Google for about a week or so, and then suddenly my rankings vanished. I couldn’t find it anywhere on Google, no…

Scamming People Afflicted With GERD, Ulcers, Shingles And More

Update 1/17/09: I’m noticing a new trend that seems to reflect the strategy of black-hat affiliate marketers, where fake blogs are created in order to present their product as legitimate, including fake comments that offers only positive, gushing things to say about the product in question (legitimate and negative comments get deleted). One example is…

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