I really hate writing anything that paints the work online industry in a bad light….. but sadly scams are part and parcel of it. It seems like there are so many scams at times that it is amazing anyone actually manages to avoid them at all.
Traffic is big business online, and so it has its share of scams too. The main issue with these is it is practically impossible to tell which are not real unless you test them for yourself. Many people have no idea how to test them either….. so it is easy to get caught out.
Especially now that a lot of work can be done using AI, the once impossible is now becoming possible. For example, there are real versions of this traffic list submitter available.
I had a good idea this was a scam when I first read the details, but like so many scams it was also quite well designed. I decided to test it myself to check it.
The ad is one I hadn’t seen before, and here is the headline screenshot:
The main thing that worried me about this offer is the price is a monthly subscription. It is only $4.95 a month, but that is a very easy amount to be taken from your bank account without you paying too much attention. For the scammer this can obviously mount up to a decent income with just 100 or 1000 monthly subscriptions running. I am sure there will be many people who set this up and are unable to get it cancelled….
Proof Of The Scam Traffic
To test this traffic offer I created a specific lead capture page so I wouldn’t get any false readings or need to dechiper results. They were very clear indeed:
As you can see there were a lot of hits recorded to this page. I only added the link a few days ago, but straight away I was able to identify this as bot traffic. On day 1 there were 836 hits recorded, but thanks to the Leadsleap tracker I know that only 3 of these hits lasted long enough to be considered as real hits.
To be honest I am a little surprised that there are any real hits being recorded at all. The fact there were just under 3000 hits on day 3 and just 1 real shows this is definitely just set up to fire bots at the ads.
Thank you Leadsleap tracker…… you have saved me yet again from spending money on rubbish traffic that will never get any results.
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For anyone who is looking for a real safelist submitter I am happy to recommend Traffic Zipper
Ellie xx
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