Spammers Watch Out! Online Marketers Be Careful!
2009 is coming to an end soon and this has been a fantastic year with the evolution of internet – sites are becoming easier to make (no more hard coding of the html language) and more people are coming to the social media sites (e.g. facebook and twitter) to express themselves.
This may sound good but also mean that spammers have more chances to make their move (more of that later) and if you (especially if you are an online marketer) are not careful, what you may lose are not just your credit card details (nearly, for me…) and also your favorite password!
This Can Happen To You Especially When You Have A Hot Product
There was a recent promotion of private label rights product membership offered by Calvin and Jonathan of IM Buzz Creators and these are some good PLR products. Before the intention to sign up for it, there came a sudden email offering me a Platinum Membership (no monthly membership and I can get the monthly product for free with only a one-time fee of $4.95 – sounds good right?!)
This is the email of what I have received:
As the site have since been taken down, I can’t show you the evil scheme that these spammers have used to “nearly” cheat me of my credit card details. But what they have done are as follows:
- used the related domain name but with different domain extension. Original is under .com. The Fake is under .net.
- the site design and setup are done up exactly the same as the original (which can be easily copied by copying the source of the original)
- the email address and email content are quite properly used, drafted and utilized (they made effort in planning these well)
- the signing up process is quite similar to many of those membership signing up – account setting up with your username and favorite password and followed by your credit card details.
Given by the elements above, I am more than willing to sign up and I believe many of those who are just new to PLR products, membership and online marketing will be more than willing to sign up.
But What Gave The Spammers Away?
- There’s no https:// – with the extra ’s’ behind http to signal that it’s safe to give away your credit card details and it will be encrypted.
- The Trust sign and logo that the Spammers used are blurred and totally different from those sites that are safe.
- There’s no hu-ha’s over Twitter and Search Engines – if this is such a good deal, I believe I am not the only one getting it and those who are offered will definitely make a statement on the Internet.
I Was Right After All…
If Calvin and Jonathan are kind enough to give away, a verification will justify that. So I have sent them a support ticket and they responded with the following email:
Therefore it was a relief that I did not manage to give away my credit card details to these spammers else there will be many vulgarities going around.
Lessons Learnt From This Scenario:
- The Internet is getting fun to be in. But there are still many evil do-ers who want to take advantage. Be careful at all times especially when it comes to online purchases.
- Spammers do not target people who are new. They target everybody even if you are a professional in your field.
- When in doubt, do a few searches around the internet, ask the original creators to verify on it – they will definitely not say they did a mistake in giving something attractive.
- There’s no free lunch in the world. If given a chance to make good money on the Internet, I believe Calvin and Jonathan would want to maximize on that – am I right?
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