The Best Internet Marketing Scam EVER! Netted Over $50 Million!
Roswell Slides Debacle: "The Public Deserves a Financial Accounting"
In case you guys missed it, the most successful internet marketing scam EVER was pulled off earlier this month and the haul was over $50 million dollars.
It all began when a couple of Kodak Kodachrome slides were found in a collection of slides from a deceased elderly couple. The couple were professionals in law and geology and traveled extensively. They took great pics of vacation spots, celebrities and odd artifacts. In this case, they took two pictures of a strange, small body in a glass case.
The slides were dated to between the late 1930s and 1940s. The slides then came into the possession of a few chaps who decided the body in the picture was that of a space alien from the Roswell UFO Incident of 1947. There was not one shred of evidence that the body was alien, nor that it was connected to that event, but the slides were promoted as such.
Now here's how the guys made a killing using the internet and internet marketing.
They got a television producer from Mexico. A very famous producer, a genius at putting together documentaries and public events. They then called in a bunch of UFO experts and other scientists to state that the body was alien. They took this info and put together a promotional package using websites, social media, Facebook, Twitter, television, radio, to promote that they would hold a LIVE event on May 5 in Mexico City, and that event would be streamed over the web for a price of $20 a pop. The event was held in an auditorium in Mexico City that holds 7,000 people and they charged them like $350 a head.
The UFO community never got a chance to see hi-res images of the slides to do further analysis, so everyone was curious, (except yours truly here who smelled a rat from the beginning), and the event and streaming went on. An estimated 2.5 to 3 million people around the world paid to watch this 5 hour event. That's well over $50 million!!!
Now for the kicker.
The next day, the group released a hi-res image of the slides and we went to work examining them. Lo and behold, a placard in the bottom right of the image was blurry so I and others used de-blurring software to decipher it.
Turns out the body in the case is the mummy of a 3 year old boy.
Well, the sh*tstorm hit. For some reason these promoters and scientists didn't take the time to use de-blurring software, which is FREE, mind you during their 2 year investigation. The whole thing came apart and two of the participants issued apologies.
No refunds!
Because the event took place in Mexico City, no refunds are available! Nobody in that country is going to obey any form of ethical conduct, so these guys got away scott free, using bs hype, social media, and streaming technology.
The scam was so slick, now other marketers are running around trying to find mysterious stuff to stream at pay-per-view prices.
You've got to hand it to these guys. They knew their routine down to the last digit. Skirted law enforcement and can take that money and 10x it in a matter of months.
Now THAT'S internet marketing for ya.
In case you guys missed it, the most successful internet marketing scam EVER was pulled off earlier this month and the haul was over $50 million dollars.
It all began when a couple of Kodak Kodachrome slides were found in a collection of slides from a deceased elderly couple. The couple were professionals in law and geology and traveled extensively. They took great pics of vacation spots, celebrities and odd artifacts. In this case, they took two pictures of a strange, small body in a glass case.
The slides were dated to between the late 1930s and 1940s. The slides then came into the possession of a few chaps who decided the body in the picture was that of a space alien from the Roswell UFO Incident of 1947. There was not one shred of evidence that the body was alien, nor that it was connected to that event, but the slides were promoted as such.
Now here's how the guys made a killing using the internet and internet marketing.
They got a television producer from Mexico. A very famous producer, a genius at putting together documentaries and public events. They then called in a bunch of UFO experts and other scientists to state that the body was alien. They took this info and put together a promotional package using websites, social media, Facebook, Twitter, television, radio, to promote that they would hold a LIVE event on May 5 in Mexico City, and that event would be streamed over the web for a price of $20 a pop. The event was held in an auditorium in Mexico City that holds 7,000 people and they charged them like $350 a head.
The UFO community never got a chance to see hi-res images of the slides to do further analysis, so everyone was curious, (except yours truly here who smelled a rat from the beginning), and the event and streaming went on. An estimated 2.5 to 3 million people around the world paid to watch this 5 hour event. That's well over $50 million!!!
Now for the kicker.
The next day, the group released a hi-res image of the slides and we went to work examining them. Lo and behold, a placard in the bottom right of the image was blurry so I and others used de-blurring software to decipher it.
Turns out the body in the case is the mummy of a 3 year old boy.
Well, the sh*tstorm hit. For some reason these promoters and scientists didn't take the time to use de-blurring software, which is FREE, mind you during their 2 year investigation. The whole thing came apart and two of the participants issued apologies.
No refunds!
Because the event took place in Mexico City, no refunds are available! Nobody in that country is going to obey any form of ethical conduct, so these guys got away scott free, using bs hype, social media, and streaming technology.
The scam was so slick, now other marketers are running around trying to find mysterious stuff to stream at pay-per-view prices.
You've got to hand it to these guys. They knew their routine down to the last digit. Skirted law enforcement and can take that money and 10x it in a matter of months.
Now THAT'S internet marketing for ya.
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