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Online Marketing Scam: “Can I Have Your Bank Account Number?”

Posted by Admin | March 12, 2008 .

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Online scams are only short-term.  And they make us all look bad, so don’t do it.

Why?

Wow…  And I mean wow.  This straddles the line between Sneaky-Stuff and Scam - though I would guess it’s more Scam. 

Search Google for “modeling jobs” and you find content offers from an outfit called 123FindJobs.com.  First page:  fill in the desired job name and job location.

That opens a box of snakes.  You pass through 7 screens, asking highly detailed personal questions, and essentially signing you up for offers like:

  • Payday loan
  • Debt consolidation offer
  • Colorado Technical University Online
  • DeVry Institute
  • Poetry.com Poetry Contest
  • Art Institute of Pittsburgh

Some offers are already checkmarked “Yes,” no doubt for your convenience.

The payday loan screen even asks for…get this…your Social Security number and bank account number.  Wow.  This is incredible.

After you finally get through the obstacles. the final page just spits out scraped “job postings” from Indeed.com.

What a scam.  What they’re doing, of course, is Force-Generating leads probably from Azoogle.  But it’s the bank account stuff that really makes my hair stand on end.  Though some readers may know that Monster.com does sneaky-sneaky stuff like this, but to a lesser degree.  And we all fall down in awe of Monster’s monstrous coolness, don’t we?  Makes you think, huh?

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