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How do you spot an internet scam? You read below.

No, I mean, literally, you read below. Move your eyes down just a bit. The scam is right there.




With my post on Nigerian scammers using Google AdSense to pull in traffic (which surprises me given Google's focus on quality user experience on the web), ads concerning this topic are being served up. Amusingly, I spotted this on my blog:

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How To Spot A Scam

followed by

Get Rich On The Internet

How do you spot the scam? You look down a bit.

Well, I thought it was funny.

Of course, the real irony is that the scam AdSense listing is exactly the same one I wrote about in the first place. I wonder if that indicates that this is the only Nigerian scam operation spending money on AdWords to get links on sites like mine.

By the way, WebProNews had an article last year that discussed how Google's AdSense cleverly posted ads to scam alert sites when the web page contained text commonly associated with these scams. It looks like since that post was published, this scammer, and perhaps others, have decided to use AdWords to their advantage.


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Comments

...dunno Steve, every time I see "scam" and "AdSense" in the same sentence my brain keeps rewording it as AdScam.

Coincidence?

...shudder...

Posted by: tomax7 at June 14, 2007 12:15 AM



So ... some of the sponsorship money ended up in Nigeria?

Posted by: Tom at June 14, 2007 04:30 PM