i got an email from this kid at my work for some "make money" program. so, curious, went to the site to figure out what kind of scam it is. the basis is: you sign up to recieve email ads, and you get paid $.02 for every one you read. and you get a $10 sign-up bonus. so, yeah, i made an email address on a free email site and signed up for it to see if it was real. and it is! i was like, crap, they're really going to deposit money in my paypal account. cuz you give them your paypal address, or you can have them send you a check. i already recieved one ad mail, and i'm up to $10.02, with a payment coming to me on the 15th of next month.

the link is http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?Grindcore, and i'm definatly going to post on the 15th and let you know if they actually paid me or not. but i really think they're going to.

that's not the site that I did this at before!

ohwell! I'll do it!

I need some money to buy a G3 computer... and happen to have paypal! so I may as well!

I basically use the same password for nearly eerything :-\

but it told me that a field was missing or something... and I'm trying to get a hotmail account work ing with Entourage....

wait! I'M FROM THE USA, CANADA OR THE UK! WaHoOo!!!

this thing looks so cool, screw all those "read our emails to be entered into a contest for $100" sites.

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This is another example of the typical internet startup companies that try and say they have a unique way to do online advertising.

When people go online, they don't want ads. They hate ads. They only go looking to buy when they want to. There is no optimum way to send advertisements online, it's a lottery of sorts, with very low rates of winning.

I would not touch this with a ten foot pole even if they offered a million dollars. It seems like too much hassle and it smells of internet failure all over. Back when the huge internet IPO's came onboard the stock market prices were high, and people are still being sucked in by money.

I hate to say it because I would hate to flip burgers, but It's better to flip burgers then get involved in another failed venture. It's more like a hobby of mine now to see the online companies die out, you laugh when one hits the dust because people don't get it, the internet may be a great place to buy things, but people don't like it when you go out of your way to shove an ad in thier face.

That would be like you walking through the mall and having over 400 people ask you if you want to buy something, never leaving you alone.

Like a mall, people like to surf through and have a look and if something hits thier fancy button they will go for it.

Ever hear someone say the internet is a gold mine waiting to be harvested? Bullshit. (excuse my language) The only real people who make money off the internet are the telecommunication companies who sell access points and also ISP's who you buy internet access from. The internet is nothing more than electrical wires across several countries. There is no money in it.

My 2 cents & tax.

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You did the same math I did, right? That's 750 manhood enlargement and Viagra mails(before you even know they even send you this check)... And who says they don't put that very same mailaddress on a list which *doesn't* pay you(so you'll get, say 7,500 mails)? Look from it from their site... they're just *must* be an angle to this... You're better off flipping burgers imho.

Multiple Stream Marketing, hits4pay... smells like one big 4-letter-word to me

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One of the Mods/Admins posted saying that his member was 65 Inches long after all those spam mails. It was hilarious!

Nick

My concern is that I can't get my hotmail account to work with Entourage... I'm going to try again now... but if I can get the Entarouge to work... I'll use that, it's much better than the native hotmail interface, or even my uReach interface.

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I still wouldn't trust it...one of the most valuable lessons i learnt back at school is that if something seems too good to be true, well it probably is.

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I have a problem with vintage electronics. . .I am working on it.

1. Write program to find request notification/signal you've read the spam

2. Barrage them with said signal

3. Profit!!!?!?!

I would never go near one of these scams.. After reading the first post, I was suspicious that I had seen the same text somewhere else, but couldn't find reference.

Not accusing you, Macinrock, but you gotta love marketing companies that hire people to pollute BBS and forums with their crap. One day they'll get theirs.

It's all about the karma.

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