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How to Spot Scam Advertisements

Have you ever seen a super annoying advertisement that is clearly lying?

We have all been exposed I have even seen a few on Triond itself! Have you ever clicked one? There are all kinds of goodies! Trojans, Spy ware, Key loggers, Virals and all kinds of other goodies! Personally I only like having Trojans because key loggers are just a nuisance! Oh, wait, I am fairly sure no one wants ANYTHING! So shall we avoid it then? Yes novel idea!

So let us state the obvious firstly! Now, you have been the 1,000,000th visitor more then 50 times on the same site? Scam? I think not! (note the deep sarcasm) There are currently no sites running a 1 millionth visitor contest so they are currently all scams! However I recently got hit by a you are the 9,999,999,999th visitor, does anyone else see the flaw in this advertisement? That would be 10 Trillion visits to that site, I can't be positive but I would say a safe guess could be that 10Trillion visits to separate sites haven't been made on the entire Internet! Just a thought!

Now there are the ads that promise you something and all you have to do is enter your E-mail address and wait. Well if you think long and hard (clearly I mean no more then 3 seconds) you will notice that what it promises is garbage and that each time you attempt one in a step of faith you receive no guide or what have you, AND you get a noticeably larger amount of spam! Coincidence? I think not!

This one should be extremely obvious to all, any ad in a different language, with typos, or obvious errors of any kind are to be completely disregarded! If you click on it anyways then your a fool but if you do and you notice the site has any flaws or looks unprofessional you have been had! This is not a good thing by anyone's standards, leave the site immediately at which point you have probably gotten a couple pornographic pop-ups!

Please make the Internet a better place to live and ignore idiots!

Thanks!

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Comments (2)
#1 by Greyian Storm, Oct 14, 2008
10 Trillion views to the whole internet? Someone I think there has been far, far more than that. If you average out a variety of different figures (from internetworldstats, Nielsen/Netratings) etc, you end up with a figure of 35 billion or so...per day. That equates to 30 days=1 trillion. So since the turn of the millenium, one has to assume that there has been far more than 10 trillion views.
#2 by Liane Schmidt, Oct 14, 2008
Thank you for looking out for us!

Blessings.

Sincerely,

-Liane Schmidt.
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