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AdvertisingCrossing Pays You To Spam This Forum
Submitted by ArtificialIntel... on Sat, 2008-06-28 19:15.
I found this on mturk.com, a website affiliated with Amazon.com, and thought it was going pretty low. They offer $2.00 if you spam the Ads of the World job forum:
http://adsoftheworld.com/forums/jobs
Register on this forum and do a Posting on EACH Forum about
h..p://www.AdvertisingCrossing[.com]
and how you are impressed about the massive number of advertising jobs on the site--the most you have ever seen. AdvertisingCrossing[.com] researches jobs in the advertising industry from other sites and employer websites and puts the jobs on this site.
Please insure that you refer to AdvertisingCrossing as h..p://www.AdvertisingCrossing[.com] in your discussions so it is clickable in each posting.
In other words, they will pay you to rave about their website even if you've never seen it. That's coming close to asking people to commit fraud on their behalf, in my opinion. I'm not normally the crusader type, but their offer gives me the feeling they are on the slimy end of the job advertising spectrum so I thought I'd let people here know to take posts about how great they are with a grain of salt. (BTW I modified their website name in the quoted block to keep it from being a hotlink from here. In the original post their URL was formatted ok.)
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This is pretty sad. There is really no point doing it as I delete all such messages immediately. Plus block their accounts as well. I searched mturk.com and this pathetic task is no longer available.
Yeah its actually pretty horrific the amount of spamming going on for it. There are a few advertising groups I am in on facebook and they have people posting the same bullshit to promote the site. Ivans got quick hands to get rid of the nonsense though, keep it up sir!
I deleted so many... This campaign is idiotic. They are making sure all you guys will hate them forever, which is crazy!!
I agree! I'm not even involved in commercial advertising. I found this forum only because I read AdvertisingCrossing's solicitation on the mturk website. I couldn't quite believe a reputable company would resort to that kind of advertising tactic -- paying people to make favorable comments about them in a web forum. Out of curiosity, I looked at this site's forum and, sure enough, there they were...dutifully conforming to the content requirements laid out by AdvertisingCrossing in order to get paid.
Maybe it doesn't matter how many people are alienated by their spam. Just like the porn and internet pharmaceuticals industries which swamp inboxes with porn ads and erectile dysfunction remedies, AdvertisingCrossing may realize it only takes a small percentage of responders to make up the cost of a spam campaign.
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