Written by Lincoln Adams on
March 22, 2010 |
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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…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
February 26, 2009 |
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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…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
October 6, 2008 |
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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…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
November 12, 2007 |
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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…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
September 27, 2007 |
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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…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
September 8, 2007 |
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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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