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Rich Jerk is an AdWords Jerk

Posted by Admin | April 4, 2008 .

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Lay off the Google AdWords fraud, please.

Why?

What an idiot.  First, I was mortified at the ad copy here.  I won’t even waste the time checking Google AdWords Terms and Conditions, but I’ll wager that “Clickbank Got Me Laid” and “hookers” are not allowable. 

Rich Jerk

But that’s not all — as we advertisers like to say.

I clicked on the damn thing.  It landed me on the Rich Jerk landing page for about five seconds.  Then a pop up asking if I wanted to run some spyware killer.  No, of course not.  Then the whole fricking thing redirected to a new site that began “checking” my computer for spyware and adware.

 And all because I only wanted to do something as innocent and guileless as check out this ad…  Can you imagine.

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