Internet Scam That Accually Turns Out To Be Legit
NOTE - Ok guys, I (Comprox) have edited this post in boredom, I am sorry, anything in red is changed. Starke, this is your first and last warning, dont post this again. I don't care how legit it was.
Okay, read through this before you think "There's no way it'll work! Its BS!" I guarantee if you follow the steps right, enter real information, you WILL get a free iPod.
Here's the deal. <span style='color:red'>I am full of BS. Oh wait, right, please read!</span>
There is a company that is giving away free iPods in exchange for being able to advertise to you, and have you refer other people to them. Now, there's no scam here <span style='color:red'>***</span>, they aren't charging you any money, and they aren't getting your credit card number. If you choose to sign up for an offer that requires a credit card, and cancel it, it costs you nothing, and the company that gets your credit card is the company that is advertising with them, NOT this free iPod company, so you can feel safe that the purpose of them giving the iPods is not so they can get peoples' credit cards. If you look at the URLs, it is AOL, etc. These are reputable companies, and you should trust them more than you trust a waiter at a restaurant to not copy down your credit card number.
Anyway, here's the deal:
#1 you follow this link:
<span style='color:red'>Following link has been edited:</span>
htttp://www.aol.com
#2: you enter a VALID email address, and your REAL home address. The email address doesn't have to be your primary, in fact, I suggest you use an email address you don't check regularly and have for the purposes of getting spam and stuff, because they're likely to spam it. But its not that bad, in exchange for a $300-400 20GB iPod or iPod mini. But you have to be able to check that email address because you'll need it to be able to complete the offer. <span style='color:red'>Then please bend over and kiss your arse goodbye</span>.
#3: you skip ALL of the ads that ask you "yes" or "no" if you want to sign up for their offer. Say no to ALL of them. <span style='color:red'>Wow, only good idea I said!</span>
#4: at the end, you'll come to where it asks you to complete one offer off a list of about half a dozen offers. You must complete one of these. I suggest <span style='color:red'>attempting to scam some forums!</span>
#5 get 5 people to do the same. <span style='color:red'>The more forums you can spam, the better!</span>
#6 wait a few <span style='color:red'>minutes, and get your post edited and looked at by forum moderators!</span>
Seriously, do it just this way, it costs ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, there is NO RISK involved, <span style='color:red'>except a potential ban! No money down, no interest till 2006, and no administration fee! That's right, we ban for FREE!Get banned today and get this free carpet shampooer and 1/2 pound of backbacon for free if you get yourself banned within the next 2 days.</span>
Here are some links to some success stories doing this offer. <span style='color:red'>Well, go find your own link with a banlist</span>
<span style='color:red'>*** = I lied, I am sorry</span>
Okay, read through this before you think "There's no way it'll work! Its BS!" I guarantee if you follow the steps right, enter real information, you WILL get a free iPod.
Here's the deal. <span style='color:red'>I am full of BS. Oh wait, right, please read!</span>
There is a company that is giving away free iPods in exchange for being able to advertise to you, and have you refer other people to them. Now, there's no scam here <span style='color:red'>***</span>, they aren't charging you any money, and they aren't getting your credit card number. If you choose to sign up for an offer that requires a credit card, and cancel it, it costs you nothing, and the company that gets your credit card is the company that is advertising with them, NOT this free iPod company, so you can feel safe that the purpose of them giving the iPods is not so they can get peoples' credit cards. If you look at the URLs, it is AOL, etc. These are reputable companies, and you should trust them more than you trust a waiter at a restaurant to not copy down your credit card number.
Anyway, here's the deal:
#1 you follow this link:
<span style='color:red'>Following link has been edited:</span>
htttp://www.aol.com
#2: you enter a VALID email address, and your REAL home address. The email address doesn't have to be your primary, in fact, I suggest you use an email address you don't check regularly and have for the purposes of getting spam and stuff, because they're likely to spam it. But its not that bad, in exchange for a $300-400 20GB iPod or iPod mini. But you have to be able to check that email address because you'll need it to be able to complete the offer. <span style='color:red'>Then please bend over and kiss your arse goodbye</span>.
#3: you skip ALL of the ads that ask you "yes" or "no" if you want to sign up for their offer. Say no to ALL of them. <span style='color:red'>Wow, only good idea I said!</span>
#4: at the end, you'll come to where it asks you to complete one offer off a list of about half a dozen offers. You must complete one of these. I suggest <span style='color:red'>attempting to scam some forums!</span>
#5 get 5 people to do the same. <span style='color:red'>The more forums you can spam, the better!</span>
#6 wait a few <span style='color:red'>minutes, and get your post edited and looked at by forum moderators!</span>
Seriously, do it just this way, it costs ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, there is NO RISK involved, <span style='color:red'>except a potential ban! No money down, no interest till 2006, and no administration fee! That's right, we ban for FREE!Get banned today and get this free carpet shampooer and 1/2 pound of backbacon for free if you get yourself banned within the next 2 days.</span>
Here are some links to some success stories doing this offer. <span style='color:red'>Well, go find your own link with a banlist</span>
<span style='color:red'>*** = I lied, I am sorry</span>
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Then wait 1-2 weeks depending on location and I'll be sure to send you ONE COMPLETELY FREE!!! NO STRINGS ATTACHED!!! LETTER BOMB.
All you have to do is reply with said information, other lovely presents from other forum members can be expected.
Enjoy.
reasa, you go first...
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I already sent him a nice PM letting him know what I think.
I don't think he'll ever get it, but people like this **** me off so much I had to try.
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I already sent him a nice PM letting him know what I think.
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I hadn't knowticed <img src='http://swiftspear.0x01a4.com/Img/Emotes/rolleyes.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
It represents COMMUNISM.
That sounds too good to be true! BAN ME!
Yup, the same people that click on popups claiming they are lucky visitor 1,324,612,456 and have won a prize.
It's not really anything to worry about.
Most forms of spam are automatic. It's far harder to automate spamming forums, since they require membership (among other things), and more and more forums, these days, are putting in measures to prevent bots from creating accounts (such as passwords presented as pictures that are easy for humans to read but hard to bots to read).
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I love you.
That is true, so the spammers have begun to lure people with rewards if they do the dirty job for them. For example: "Advertise us and earn a FREE PEN!" I say this is worrying because several of my boards have begun to get spam like this when previously there has been almost none. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Hopefully this will pass...
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I could use a carpet shampooer, actually.
The carpets around here really need to be cleaned...plus that's like a $300 value <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Well...maybe not the backbacon...but carpet shampooer for the win!
And the topic title doesn't make sense. Scames are not legit for one thing.
The other is....Legit means something that's good. Scams are not good XD
Okay, I ran out of definitions.
Get banned within five seconds, and win <i>free hair growth formulae!</i>
Well, I couldn't think of anything else good-natured. Since all the other ideas are a little unsuitable for the forums <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Not necessarily <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The usual structure of the "nigerian email scam" is that they're approaching you to ask for help in scamming some imaginary third party. However, this scamming-of-a-third-party is not legitimate because no such third party exists, and it is you who is being scammed instead.
As far as I can tell, it's a similar thing here - you're being invited to help them scam some company that gives away free stuff by signing up and then cancelling; the potential scam is that the peoples doing the inviting are going to steal your details, so they're trying to say that it's "legit", meaning they're not really trying to steal your details\exploit you for profit, but that this scamming of a third party is real.
Make sense? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I blame HK English standards....your generic high school student in Hong Kong would have to learn at the english level of a sixth grader. Yes, sixth grader.
So essentially, they're actually scamming a third party, instead of the 'ZOMG teh imaginary third party!' with your details right?
edit: comprox I'm not sure why the original post needed editing, or the poaster needed banning. care to explain?
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Suuuuuure he did.
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yeah, I know someone that got a free ipod this way too...
<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> I'm confused?