Post by "Pop" Stran on Mar 4, 2013 15:44:06 GMT -5
Another Popular Carrot & Stick scam
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Whether on Facebook, on a private site, or in an email; This common scam has been around since the early days of the Web.
Large banners and bright titles boasting a Free Giveaway of brand new cameras, laptops, iPads, and a dozen other carrots-on-a-stick are carefully crafted to illicit a single emotional response: Greed.
Pushing your greed button has two expected responses;
It activates your deep-seated desire to get something for nothing, which in turn blinds you to the fact, at least temporarily, that you are in fact being led by the nose in the hope of receiving your reward.
The con starts slow, as most do.
"Just give us your name & email to register for your free prize!"
"Once done, Click Continue" ...and here is where they tie the carrot and stick to your head.
The "Continue" button is clue #1.
Not a 'Submit' and you're done, because they have literally hundreds of "Continue" buttons waiting for you as you are led down the rabbit hole of this scam...and for 98% of people lured in, it is bottomless.
"Sign up for 3 of these offers..." and "Purchase from 5 of these offers" is at the heart of this marketing tool.
As you complete each irritating and seemingly endless step, you are making the marketer money via the affiliate links.
You are giving your email to thousands of spammers, and your phone # to telemarketers who will be buying it seconds after this con asked you for it.
Most people figure this scam out after the first 20 pages of "Select the offers you are interested in hearing more about. You must choose 3 from each page"
...and even for these people it's too late to stop the scammers from selling the data collected thus far.
The other half of their visitors are determined to make this time investment pay off, and will stay the course as long as possible.
Many expect, no doubt, that they will be among the select few who actually finish this endurance test and receive the "Free" prize.
Bad news: The actual scam in this marketing con is the "FREE" part.
While you won't actually pay a posted price in direct exchange for the laptop, you will in fact pay far more than the laptop is worth by buying the required offers.
It will be 20 Times easier, and much cheaper, to simply save up the money and shop Amazon and Ebay for a good laptop.
> Extreme Affiliate Marketing <
Whether on Facebook, on a private site, or in an email; This common scam has been around since the early days of the Web.
Large banners and bright titles boasting a Free Giveaway of brand new cameras, laptops, iPads, and a dozen other carrots-on-a-stick are carefully crafted to illicit a single emotional response: Greed.
Pushing your greed button has two expected responses;
It activates your deep-seated desire to get something for nothing, which in turn blinds you to the fact, at least temporarily, that you are in fact being led by the nose in the hope of receiving your reward.
The con starts slow, as most do.
"Just give us your name & email to register for your free prize!"
"Once done, Click Continue" ...and here is where they tie the carrot and stick to your head.
The "Continue" button is clue #1.
Not a 'Submit' and you're done, because they have literally hundreds of "Continue" buttons waiting for you as you are led down the rabbit hole of this scam...and for 98% of people lured in, it is bottomless.
"Sign up for 3 of these offers..." and "Purchase from 5 of these offers" is at the heart of this marketing tool.
As you complete each irritating and seemingly endless step, you are making the marketer money via the affiliate links.
You are giving your email to thousands of spammers, and your phone # to telemarketers who will be buying it seconds after this con asked you for it.
Most people figure this scam out after the first 20 pages of "Select the offers you are interested in hearing more about. You must choose 3 from each page"
...and even for these people it's too late to stop the scammers from selling the data collected thus far.
The other half of their visitors are determined to make this time investment pay off, and will stay the course as long as possible.
Many expect, no doubt, that they will be among the select few who actually finish this endurance test and receive the "Free" prize.
Bad news: The actual scam in this marketing con is the "FREE" part.
While you won't actually pay a posted price in direct exchange for the laptop, you will in fact pay far more than the laptop is worth by buying the required offers.
It will be 20 Times easier, and much cheaper, to simply save up the money and shop Amazon and Ebay for a good laptop.