Is Netbux a Scam ?
Netbux and PayPup are quickly gaining attention as two awful scams. Covering the background, both programs promise to pay each member 2 cents for searching Google, Yahoo, eBay, MSN and many other sites with searching capabilities. Both were founded in April of 2005, first Netbux.org, followed by Pay-Pup.com. Pay-to-Search (PTS) seemed to be a big splash, with members able to earn thousands of dollars per month.
Unfortunately, both websites are overhyped scams. First of all, there is no way that any advertiser would pay 2c to Netbux and PayPup for each time a random user searches and receives an advertisement. Ads are not worth $0.02 each. Not to mention, referral commission is 100%, so Netbux and PayPup scammers are actually promising to pay $0.04 per search! If you know anything about the advertising business, $40.00 CPM is absurd, and no company would pay that much.
As if that were not horrible enough, Netbux and PayPup are offering to sell unreferred members to those willing to fork out some cash. At first, both sold referrals for $1 per each member. Later, Netbux increased the rate to $3, and PayPup to $2.50. In any circumstance, this is nothing more than a fishy smelling scam. Since referrals can earn $1 PER DAY for the user who purchased them, it makes zero sense for the website owners to sell them at such a low rate! The only possibility is that Netbux and PayPup simply want to earn more free money before they close down their business.
Perhaps they are eager for more money to make up for lost revenue. Both Netbux and PayPup had their Google AdSense accounts terminated, for two separate reasons. Netbux urged members to "CLICK HERE!" which is a clear violation of AdSense for Search policy. PayPup greedily edited its website code so that mesothelioma attorney and lawyer AdSense advertisements would always show up. Anyone with knowledge of the AdSense knows that these pay dollars per click, and forcing them to appear is against the terms of service. On top of that, Netbux was also removed from another advertisement company, Clicksor.
Forced to move on, both sites were required to find new advertisements. Netbux settled for selling 75,000 ad impressions for $29, which equals $0.0003 income per search. This is less than 1% of the 4 cents promised per search! Not even 1%! PayPup went solely with advertisements that only pay when users enter private and personal information, not exactly the most courteous way to earn income through members.
Now attempting to get quick cash by selling unreferred members, Netbux and PayPup earned well over $10,000 through sales of referrals. Ironically, PayPal caught on to the scam, and froze the accounts of both, meaning that they could not send or receive more payments. On they went, scamming again through 2CO.com. Once again, they were recognized for the scammers they are, and removed from that service as well. Finally, they had to settle for accepting payments via Charge.com, a high-risk company which simply put is a credit card transaction processor. Anyone foolish enough to give away money to these two scoundrels after seeing all of this occur certainly does justice to the saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted..."
Furthermore, if it were not apparent enough already, Netbux and PayPup are, in all honesty, the same company (scam). The same person, MidiFox.com hosted both websites, until traffic became too much to contain. One site simply was not enough to reel in users and advertisement agencies, as well.
Both websites say that they will never sell, trade, or give away any personal information. How then, do they justify the fact that anyone can see the email address of each referral he has - including ones which he purchased?! Netbux sneakily removed its forums right as PayPup was being launched, simply a way to stop users from communicating about the obvious relationship. PayPup went down for days at a time during the first week of its existence, causing many members, including referrals who had been "purchased" by someone else, to stop coming back and earning money for the one who had shelled out $1 per member. Netbux was hacked and its security breached. PayPup mysteriously made referral links virtually invalid, as anyone clicking on the "Create" button for a new account would have the referral code wiped away from their browser, a cheap way of getting more "unreferred" members to selfishly sell for more cash, and a clear violation of the statement that referral codes would stick to that potential new member's IP address, even if the browser were closed and the computer shut down!
Netbux and PayPup are most certainly scams. Feel free to check back shortly. The only ways they could survive more than a few months would be to ban multitudes of members with high earnings, lower their payment rates dramatically, or add tons of new advertisements. If none of those happens, you probably will not see them around after a few months, at least not with the same business plan.
See the Netbux site
Internet
Unfortunately, both websites are overhyped scams. First of all, there is no way that any advertiser would pay 2c to Netbux and PayPup for each time a random user searches and receives an advertisement. Ads are not worth $0.02 each. Not to mention, referral commission is 100%, so Netbux and PayPup scammers are actually promising to pay $0.04 per search! If you know anything about the advertising business, $40.00 CPM is absurd, and no company would pay that much.
As if that were not horrible enough, Netbux and PayPup are offering to sell unreferred members to those willing to fork out some cash. At first, both sold referrals for $1 per each member. Later, Netbux increased the rate to $3, and PayPup to $2.50. In any circumstance, this is nothing more than a fishy smelling scam. Since referrals can earn $1 PER DAY for the user who purchased them, it makes zero sense for the website owners to sell them at such a low rate! The only possibility is that Netbux and PayPup simply want to earn more free money before they close down their business.
Perhaps they are eager for more money to make up for lost revenue. Both Netbux and PayPup had their Google AdSense accounts terminated, for two separate reasons. Netbux urged members to "CLICK HERE!" which is a clear violation of AdSense for Search policy. PayPup greedily edited its website code so that mesothelioma attorney and lawyer AdSense advertisements would always show up. Anyone with knowledge of the AdSense knows that these pay dollars per click, and forcing them to appear is against the terms of service. On top of that, Netbux was also removed from another advertisement company, Clicksor.
Forced to move on, both sites were required to find new advertisements. Netbux settled for selling 75,000 ad impressions for $29, which equals $0.0003 income per search. This is less than 1% of the 4 cents promised per search! Not even 1%! PayPup went solely with advertisements that only pay when users enter private and personal information, not exactly the most courteous way to earn income through members.
Now attempting to get quick cash by selling unreferred members, Netbux and PayPup earned well over $10,000 through sales of referrals. Ironically, PayPal caught on to the scam, and froze the accounts of both, meaning that they could not send or receive more payments. On they went, scamming again through 2CO.com. Once again, they were recognized for the scammers they are, and removed from that service as well. Finally, they had to settle for accepting payments via Charge.com, a high-risk company which simply put is a credit card transaction processor. Anyone foolish enough to give away money to these two scoundrels after seeing all of this occur certainly does justice to the saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted..."
Furthermore, if it were not apparent enough already, Netbux and PayPup are, in all honesty, the same company (scam). The same person, MidiFox.com hosted both websites, until traffic became too much to contain. One site simply was not enough to reel in users and advertisement agencies, as well.
Both websites say that they will never sell, trade, or give away any personal information. How then, do they justify the fact that anyone can see the email address of each referral he has - including ones which he purchased?! Netbux sneakily removed its forums right as PayPup was being launched, simply a way to stop users from communicating about the obvious relationship. PayPup went down for days at a time during the first week of its existence, causing many members, including referrals who had been "purchased" by someone else, to stop coming back and earning money for the one who had shelled out $1 per member. Netbux was hacked and its security breached. PayPup mysteriously made referral links virtually invalid, as anyone clicking on the "Create" button for a new account would have the referral code wiped away from their browser, a cheap way of getting more "unreferred" members to selfishly sell for more cash, and a clear violation of the statement that referral codes would stick to that potential new member's IP address, even if the browser were closed and the computer shut down!
Netbux and PayPup are most certainly scams. Feel free to check back shortly. The only ways they could survive more than a few months would be to ban multitudes of members with high earnings, lower their payment rates dramatically, or add tons of new advertisements. If none of those happens, you probably will not see them around after a few months, at least not with the same business plan.
See the Netbux site
Internet
posted by forexdude at 5/17/2005 09:18:00 PM
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