Faking Screen Shots - Stupid Easy Under 30 Seconds!

30 seconds, must be a record time,

Nice video.

Now you know how its done people, don't do it!

I rememeber a simpson episode where Actor Troy McClure says this while Barts class watch a bunny rabbit video- anyone remember that one

I bet you could do this with FireBug (Firefox add-on) very easily.

I love how you say "only about $1400" in my account. I'll take it! lol, jk. I didn't realize it was that easy to fake. Wow.

I had that script somewhere. Let me find it...

You are aware that many will view this as a "How to" guide, or at least as inspiration.

If only there was a 'SAVE' button so that total stuck

Wow. That is really great info. Thank you for posting it. People need to know that not all income claims are real, and they should always be careful and look into where and how that income came from.

those who fake it are low lifes trying to make a quick buck from the gullible. I always tell my students to investigate the domain owner first and a few other things before believing in screen shots.

Take care,

Bernard St-Pierre

Oh and let me add that surely you must have something better to post than to inspire desperate folks here.... nuff said

Peace.

Bernard

Fallen for many a fake screenshot before

This is really only half the issue anyway. One of the bigger problems amongst some of the more experienced marketers is not them faking screenshots, but using screenshots of earnings that have been accumulated from one method to back up another product.

For example someone sells a product on clickbank and makes some good money. They can then come up with a Make Money Online product and use screenshots from their previous product to support the earnings of this new product - when the two are not related at all.

This is why even when people are willing to log in live on video to prove their earnings, a lot of times you also have to take that proof with a grain of salt.

Pot. Kettle. Black. Much? Your post didn't really help much at all. He is trying to open people's eyes and let the gullible know that everything is not as it may seem.

Yeah it's easy as a copy and paste...

Better be careful guys.

You might be a victim.

I couldn't agree more, Jason. I would put FAKE scarcity right up there with fake income screenshots. (i.e. we're only selling 20 copies... when it's obvious based on their Clickbank gravity or ranking they've sold several thousand). No wonder internet marketers get such a bad rap.

Brad

I had no idea it was THAT easy to do. Thanks for sharing!

I remember one firefox addon that can actually replace text/numbers, that effects on page load.. So even with video screenshot, it could be fake. Be aware warriors

With all the Click-Bank launches this needed to be released, so that people will stop falling for these "Easy Button" product launches. Most are rip-offs!

Thanks

I remember seeing another video on this topic about 6 months ago and I had no idea that these things could be faked so easily.

And yet I wasn't really concerned for myself because no matter if I'm buying OR selling online I always come from a place of trust.

As a buyer I put pretty high expectations on the people I buy from. I almost never, ever randomly buy from strangers online. And if I do, it would be small amounts I'm willing to gamble and part with. If I'm about to spend $50 or more I know the person well, I've read their blog, got on their email list and googled them. I make sure I can trust them before I even think of buying from them. At that point proof becomes a non-issue. Most times I buy stuff from people I've known of for years and years, lots of time at that point I don't even read their sales letters just look for the buy button.

I guess I kinda expect the same from my market. I write good copy to get the point across of what I have to offer, I offer it and that's that. I add what necessary proof I can but it's more like examples, I don't I've ever shown money screenshots. Not that I'm a big time marketer or anything but I do find my market really trusts me which is the goal.

Back "before digital" we used chemicals, darkrooms and all kinds of oddball tricks/gimmicks to "edit" images - and if you were really good, you could produce the negatives to prove it. In Court!

Me, I'm always suspicious of some guy purporting to make $500K a year on-line using crappy screenshots, Camtasia and low-tech, mickey-mouse production values, to convince me he's rich & famous and if I throw money at him it will deliver me from financial obscurity.

But that's just the opinion I'll use until MY amazing offer launches and I make my first weeb$Million.

Thanks for the post! I figured people were doing this from time to time, but didn't realize it was so easy.

Generally, I would think that people would talk to other folks, look at what other information was available, or just buy a lower priced product before jumping on the bandwagon in a product launch.

If I ask people to buy something from me that is a nice chunk-o-change... I ask them to CALL me and we can discuss things... THEN, I generally give some information that will make them more money than the product or coaching actually costs... At that point, even if they never buy anything from me, they will make some money and have a nice warm feeling in their heart for me.

Why some people never afraid to get caught?

Why some people risk their lives not knowing it could be dangerous once they get caught.

May be they know also what they are doing enable them not to get caught.

But for me I should go for mlm pyramiding envelope stuffing rather this one.

Lol... Just kidding!

Nice vid Jason. Just goes to show you that you always need to be skeptical about everything.

There are lots of fun and safe uses for that script as well...

Youtube hoaxes for example ;-)



Muahahahahahahahahahahaaha!

Financial screen shots never impressed me... too easy to fake.

Google rankings... ones you can actually search for and verify your self. Much harder to fake. Maybe we just need a big search engine where we can search for and pull up everyone's bank statements. I wonder if big broth... errr I mean Google is working on that yet :-)

Haha - I never even thought how easy it would be - then I realized I could easily do that with Paint on my own. Ah man, lesson learned (more than once)....

The more people are aware about this,it helps people to be aware of what they buy. Too many newbies get sucked into the IM dream lifestyle and instantly hooked by seeing the screen shot. This piece of information helped me realize years ago, that I was just supporting these people live their dream while I suffered from more debt. Don't buy hype, get mentoring.

Here's why this is lame:

When people post legitimate screenshots (like the ones I did in my WSO thread) now people are going to assume they're fake. It just sucks because LEGITIMATE proof of income is being undermined by these losers who have to fake it.

Oh well, at least as far as WSO's go, people can post reviews right there in the thread, so it's obvious what everyone thinks of any given product.

Russ

Unfortunately, a huge number of ads use the screenshot as "proof" the product is good as gold.

Let's think about this for a moment:
Big product launch, new product, never sold before... huge build up, but look at the sales copy. There it is, PROOF that this makes money because they have a screenshot that shows income from the product. Is this faked?

One would argue that the proof is the test runs the product owner used to develop and validate the product, so the argument would seem to support the claims.

A pessimist would ask: If this autopilot, make money on demand, do it all for you, or underground method would make this sort of money without any effort on your part, just WHY in H*LL would they sell it to anyone? Why not just duplicate it, let it make the money, put it in the bank and retire? Well, probably because it doesn't work.

Yep, probably another over hyped, re-hashed or under-developed product sold via a blind ad, and promoted among several high profile product owners with huge lists to take advantage of the very human emotions they play upon...

Let's get real. If they have provide "screen shots" or even "live video" showing how much money they make to convince you to buy, they probably aren't telling you anything about the product. Look at the copy. Closely. Notice they aren't selling a product, they are selling a dream. If they can get you to also see the dream, you will open your wallet and give them your money. Not just for the advertised product... it is only the beginning. Look at the one time offers and upsells that follow. Yep, they're selling a product for $27, $47, $67 or $97 that's worth thousands... Then in the upsells, they pitch you for the "better" product for another $197, or the "membership" in "the club" for only $97 a month. But because you'll be making thousands on autopilot, it'll be free, won't it? [sigh] Yep, several upsells later, you actually download your product, and by now, you may not even remember what it's supposed to do (did they really tell you???). Next day, or next week, you're even less sure it will work. By the time the credit card bill comes, you may not even remember the membership you signed up for.

And to think, all this started with a screenshot "proof" of earnings they showed you in the sales copy...

[sorry, getting late. Stepping off the soapbox now.
Nothing to see here, everything is OK... Please don't step into the traffic lanes folks... Move along now... ]

So the heck with the newbies -- how do I get my BANK to believe the totals?

e.g. Almost every get rich scheme on Clickbank now-a-days