Scam Design – 25 Examples And Worst Practices

Wow nice collection, as much as no one wants to admit these practices, they are a part of advertising that comes to you on the internet that any freelance or agency will soon be requested to do.

what the hell is a wazzu anyway

First time i came here and you have a great post, so i think im having a subscription to this blog, thanks for the great inspiration, or transpiration maybe

Wait…

These are scams?

LOL

I actually have a couple of those blocked at the router already as I’m sick of of fake links going to them – Traffic Machine especially -soooo many spammers pushing that.

One BIG question though – err, why are over a dozen of the links above affiliate ones, hmmm? For instance, the first is
… /?hop=adamloving

Why are you even linking to these at all for that matter?

I have not included my real – don’t want to rat myself out. But This is the type of work I’ve come to make for my boss. So degrading, soul destroying.. the worst part is that I now make this crap on ‘auto poilot’ without thinking. What have I become.

Too funny. Calling them scams with affiliate links just in case, I suppose.

I guess I would have liked to see why you called them scams, I mean some were obvious, others not so much.

Personally, I learned alot about twitter from some of your “scam” sites, but hey you never know where you’ll learn something new.

Please do a companion article on “Sales Pages!” I have a friend who thinks its a legitimate, real, “honest” form of marketing his eBook/s. He’s convinced that’s the road to “residual income.” PLEASE expose this practice as a scam. Don’t forget all the techniques they use… “virtual sales agent,” squeeze pages, ugh. Sheisters!

Most of these modern gurus make it all so easy, huh! Check this out. A coconut farmer in the tropics can do better. He plants coconuts on his hills, and forget it. Later, fruits fall off the trees in 60 months (same harvest time in the web, since we spend half of our days reading the scams you put here, while churning out something of value but don’t know where to park it after getting confused) . All our farmer does to harvest, is watch the fruits fall and roll down the hills, then calls his 50 year old grandma to assist him gather the fruits, “without training and could hardly recognize a stone from the coconut!” Thank you! I enjoy it here SCAM web design. You are very informative.

I have always looked at these types of sites and thought “SCAM” but I guess there are still people out in the world who believe this type of stuff and looking to make a quick buck.

Squeeze pages aren’t scams. They convert traffic. The products they sell may be scams, but the item they sell can be independent of the approach they use to sell it.

Just saying, many designers should appreciate that squeeze pages convert customers. Conversion is what matters in web sales.