MyAffiliateInsider is a scam: RUN!!
Introduction
If you are an experienced internet marketer you would already have known that there are a lot of dishonest people out there trying to get you to empty your wallet for their sole gain. If you are a newbie, there is a high chance that you are not aware. Not every program that promises you wealth actually delivers. In fact, most don’t. So you need to be very vigilant as you seek out your online opportunities. In fact, my rule of thumb is that
- Any program that promises to make you a millionaire overnight you should avoid.
- Any program that promises to make you money without you doing any work you should avoid.
- Any program that combines the two features above, well, I guess you know what to do!!
- And, of course, if it is too good to be true then it really is not true.
You can read more tips on how to identify scams. You can also read a review of NetPennyStocks.com, another scam site.
Background
I want to tell you about one scam program that you should avoid at all cost. While others will take $5 from you, promise to make you rich and fail, the owner of this program pretends to be helping you for free but ends up extorting you. This program is called MyAffiliateInsider. Ever heard of it? If you have, start running NOW!! You want proof? Okay, I know, you read on.
Don’t fall for the scams
This is my personal experience: I came across a video on myaffiliateinsider.com where the presenter promised to set up a website for me and help me make money on autopilot for free. Now what I have learnt is that no one offers anything on the internet for free. At some point you will be asked to pay something. The point at which you will be asked to pay and the amount that will be demanded varies widely depending on the plans of the program owner (or the level of greed of the scammer, if you like). If you are lucky you will be able to use your free membership to make a few bucks, but for most programs you don’t make anything until you have upgraded (by paying money, of course). Now, back to MyAffiliateInsider
The cost of investment and the promised earnings
He even promised to give me $100 from his pocket if I did not make at least that much in 48 hours. Well, I supplied my email address and name and was taken to the next step.
Here I was asked to create an account with a company called purelyhosting.com for hosting the website. I excitedly and patiently watched the video teaching me about web hosting (I did gain something from here: I understood a few things about web hosting. I’m grateful for that). During this time it was made clear to me that if they were to charge me fully for the package they were to give (including the hosting, the website design and a host of other things) I would be paying in the thousands. But they were going to give me everything for $118.50 for 2 months (apparently, they were only charging me for the hosting) which, of course, I needed to renew. I was supposed to renew on November 26, 2012, but I cancelled my subscription when it ended. My website was supposed to be up and running with 24 hours, that would have been September 27, 2012, but it wasn’t until I had sent a ticket that on October 3, 2012 I received an email informing me that my website was then active. Imagine the time it took (I had checked everyday to see if it was active).
As you would guess, by this time the excitement was then at the peek; I thought I was going to start making at least $100 every 2 days (that would be at least $50 a day – it would be a nice additional income for me, and with the ‘testimonies’ (fake, it appears) might eventually replace my day job income). The website affiliateoverthrow.com seems to be the handwork of the same scammer. There is a link to this site at the bottom of the first video, and the promises and force of presentation are similar.
The website that was set up for me was supposed to be providing green product offers to people. Traffic was to be delivered (on autopilot) to my site. When people bought into any of the offers, I would earn commissions. You know why I was convinced that this could work? From what he explained, I was going to be working in his downline as an affiliate marketer for some companies. This means that he was going to earn commissions from my sales. This was his motivation for giving away his system for free.
The fake green product offers website
Now to my green product offers website. The website was really green, with lots of trees. Since I cancelled my hosting subscription you might not be able to access the website by the time you are reading this post, but you can still try http://freegreenproductoffers.com.
As you enter the website you are presented with a welcome message to the “greenest place on earth”, followed by a lot of trees ‘to choose from’. You are then invited to join a tree club, so they can plant a tree in your name to save the planet ( I guess you don’t have to register before they can plant trees. What if nobody registered, would they not plant a tree?). You are also encouraged to invite a friend to do the same. Then there is a link to their privacy policy at the bottom. The rest of the links and buttons on the page are either the top ten offers or ads. Surprisingly, there’s no link to all the offers. You only have access to the top ten offers. Why is that? I guess I have to ask them. But how can I ask them when I cannot contact them? Sorry. I forgot that was my website!! So how can I ask me when I cannot contact me? Lol.
Ok, that’s not the worst part. As part of the process for you to start earning money, you are required to complete one of the top ten offers. The cost ranges from free to a few dollars. Meanwhile, most of those offers, together with the ads don’t lead to real offers or ads. In fact, most of them lead to the same page where you are asked to take a survey for an opportunity to get a Macbook Air®, an iPhone 4S®, or an iPad 2®. It does not matter what the link was advertising!!!
OR THIS
Out of the 5 sponsored ads, only one opened to a unique and proper website as at the time of writing this post. One (1) opened to the second ‘offer’ above and the other 3 opened to the first ‘offer’ above. By the way, after you have gone to the next page you are not offered a Macbook Air®, an iPhone 4S®, or an iPad 2®. You are asked to supply your phone number to be granted access to some downloads (like shown below). And after you have supplied your phone number, the road ends!
In fact, all the offers have the same final destination: the page of the third image above or a similar page. Out of the 11 offers available, only the top ten offer with the banner and one other led to what they were advertising (as at the time of this post). In all there are really only 2 websites with products and services that this website leads you to. The rest of the links do not lead to what the ads show. See if the website, http://freegreenproductoffers.com, is still up so that you can verify things for yourself. I hope if you ever come across that video you will not give it a second thought.
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Final thoughts
My final question is: Is the web hosting service, PurelyHosting, also owned by the operator of MyAffiliateInsider? Even though there is no certain connection it could be true. My guess is that the operator of MyAffiliateInsider also owns the web hosting service PurelyHosting. He pretends to be giving away his system for free but leads you to spend money on his hosting service for a bogus website. Obviously I had nothing to gain, but he certainly must have had something to gain and the only point he could have gained from me was when I paid for the hosting.
