How I Made $10,735.22 In 3 Days!

Dear spammers, scammers and trolls.

As a public service to the morally disadvantaged, I am giving you a template for your fly-by-night forum sting.

STEP 1

Write a headline with "How I Made X Money In X Days!"

Make sure the amount is high enough to get people's greed receptors going, but not so high that it's an obvious scam. The amount should also be an odd number with dollars and cents so it seems more realistic.

The time period should also be short to cater for lazy victims (sorry, customers) with goldfish attention spans. For claims of $1,000 - $3,000 it's OK to use 48 hours. For more than $3,000 you should use a much longer time period, say, 3 or 4 days. 5 days or more makes it sound too much like a job and nobody will buy.

Use an exclamation mark to emphasize how amazing your feat is!

STEP 2

Paste a photoshopped screen shot of your Paypal/Clickbank account

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If you are doctoring a Clickbank cheque make sure there is enough time between the date of the earnings and today's date for a real cheque to have actually arrived via post. Most people know that cheques don't come overnight by email.

STEP 3

Actually, chronologically, this should be Step 1.

Using a proxy/dynamic ISP create a few acounts at the Warrior Forum a couple of months before you intend to fleece (sorry, help) people. Keep your nose clean. Make a few nice posts. Thank a few people.

Once you post your thread use these 'shill' accounts to praise you to high heaven and, more importantly, to attack any busybodies who have the sheer cheek to suggest you are doing something wrong.

STEP 4

If the thread survives the first 10 posts, add a link to your WSO.

STEP 5

Keep your WSO link until you get attacked by at least two Forum heavyweights. Then remove it and retire from the thread. If you try to defend yourself it gives people more rope to hang you.

STEP 6

Focus on the WSO. Use the Thanks button for everybody who posts and post saying thank you as well. You've got to get to the all-important 50 posts to add a second page. 2 pages = more social proof.

If anybody attacks you in your WSO thread try to sound reasonable. You have 3 lines of defence.

1. Accuse them of trying to ruin your WSO and threaten to report them to Admin.

2. Shrug it off. "This guy is a well-known troll. What can a poor, simple guy like me do?"

3. Throw dirt. "This guy is actually a famous Russian hacker. Give me 24 hours (to rake in more money) and I'll prove it to you."

STEP 7

This is your ace in the hole and you really don't want to use it unless you have to.

It's your treasured IM guru account.

A year ago you actually created a really good WSO and made lots of useful posts. You even built a list and sent them decent info ("Hmm, I actually made a lot of money from this. Maybe I should do it more often").

This is the account you use to come in and tell everybody "Hey, you know me. Honest Joe Marketer. I bought this WSO and it's fantastic. Deal of the century."

If you use Step 7 you might be able to salvage Honest Joe Marketer. When the scam is discovered you can join in the hue and cry and say how much money you got taken for.

STEP 8

Rinse and repeat with different usernames.


Martin