VOLUME 18

   ISSUE 18

17 January 2013

Anil : "Hello, Suresh I found a simple way to earn some money from Internet. Easily you can earn a lot from it."

Suresh : "Oh is it? What�s that, how can I get into it?"

Anil : "Don�t worry Suresh; just come to my home tomorrow evening I am going to do a small program on this. Most of our friends are also coming��.. And what you will need to do is just clicking the ads��"

Perhaps you may have experienced these kinds of statements from your office colleagues, friends, and relatives. However these kinds of Internet money scams are being spread rapidly among the society. Sometimes there are some introductory courses too. Most recent trend is Local Ad Click. This is a way of earning money by clicking ads according to their point of view.

Let�s see what the local Ad click is, it�s generally published on web "http://localadclick.net/". To join, you would need to pay $500 for a Ad click dealer and get the gold membership of localadclick.net site. The membership is valid only for 14 months. After the registration you will be provided 20 ads per month and you have to view them. For that you will be paid $200 per month. And only for first month there is no payment. This is how the Local Ad Click is carried out. Other than this; members can introduce the business to others and get them joined. For each such registration they will be paid around $50. For this process there are dealers all around the Country.

Unfortunately, user cannot get what they expect. Most of the people who joined with this recently are telling that they cannot get money by viewing the ads. In reality this local Ad Click is a pyramid scam. The top members of this pyramid / tree will get a lot and others are getting nothing. This company is a fake organization created only for this purpose and has spread among 64 countries. All the members are registered in a tree like module.

For example person" X" is registered by person "A" and then person "X" can register Person "Y". Likewise pyramid system is going on. In local ad click, all the Sri Lankan members are registered under a person in Dubai. Hence for getting the membership $500 fee should be paid to that person through the dealer. Then he will provide you a pin and using that pin you can register on the site. During registration and payment you have to provide your bank account details, and such information through an application form. When user asks about the way of earning money they are telling a story like this� "world reputed companies like Mercedes Benz, LG, KFC, Toyota need to advertise their products and so the advertising job has given to the company (localadclick.net) therefore what the members need to do is just watching those ads and make clients satisfy about their advertisement ratings." This does not make any sense, do you believe such companies will invest money on these kinds of foxy advertising agency. They even do not gain any sales from this.

What actually happens is this. It is so simple. These fellows act like a marketing agency which gains a lot of advertisements from reputed companies and steal your money, but how do they perform this? They get money as a 14 months deposit and then in the first month you will not be paid. After that they will pay you from your money for few months. While people are increasing they can balance your payment from other�s money too; but this works only for the top members. Due to these payments top members will share this with others. Unfortunately most of the people get in to this and they may have 2 or 3 months payments only or may never get paid at all. Most recent people are ones who are in bottom part of the pyramid hence they will never get paid.

Therefore please do not waste your money on these kinds of frauds. If you need money then of course you should work hard. Your valuable money will be taken by scammers who become billionaires and finally you???

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