What Raises Your Alarm
Every day I see at-least 10 new “make money online free” sort of offers thrown on my face. Does that happen to you? Does all of them work? Surely not. So what are the things which raises alarm for those offers (or let me call them ebooks).
I get skeptic when I see ebooks or offer which say:
- Earn $1000 per day doing nothing, with proof, ebook for $6 (Why the hell are you selling this ebook for $6 if you are making $1000 per day)
- Drive 100,000 real visitors to your site for $1.00
- Guaranteed top search engine ranking for any keyword in just one week (I would have been billionaire if I could do that)
- $500 every day, secret exposed
- Earn even when you sleep, get this secret ebook for $9.99
- Make huge money with myspace, no work needed.
- Tricks for beginners to earn instant money
- Earn $100 a day - Limited copies only. Price will rise after first 10 copies
- Turn your $10 into $100 Each Day. ebook for $9
- Fastest way to earn money, instant results
- Offers make in extra big capital fonts in red or yellow color
- When fresh offer launched with a lot of testimonials.
I have picked up most of the above topics from a famous webmaster forum. 
So what raises your alarm? Anything else other then the ones mentioned above?
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17 Responses to “What Raises Your Alarm”
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Armaan Bhati responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:10 am #
That famous forum is Digital Point forum.
I don’t trust these things.
Faheem Bhati responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:11 am #
You are right Jim when ebook seller assume that make $1000 per day with that ebook, then why he is selling that ebook for just $6.
I think these sort of offers are merely fraud.
So, don’t follow as they say.
Sudarshan responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:39 am #
Jim you are Spot On and I would love to see the faces of People who are posting such offers after reading this post
Armaan Bhati responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:43 am #
Most of people are only for scams…
And all books are available for free to download.
Faheem Bhati responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:50 am #
do hard work and get everything.
Sanjai responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:29 am #
Many people after loosing some money really understands all are fake..
theGypsy responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:37 am #
He he…. lately I keep getting ones like this;
“With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month to advertise our links on your website.”
It’s some strange pyramid scheme….eeek!! I only wish it were true!
- Dave
edoogg responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 11:15 am #
I am sure somewhere in the fine print it would say results not typical. It is the same with those lose a 100 pounds in two weeks ads. Sure it may work for someone but for the majority of people it would not.
Jim Karter responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 12:45 pm #
theGypsy, you are absolutely right. These days this is the exact type of spam I am getting too.
edoogg, some people do put such fine prints, others don’t even bother to do so.:)
Jim Karter responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:44 pm #
Here are some more I just got from forum, people selling those cheap $7 ebooks/info:
seoreef responded on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:43 am #
With your list, you just included almost all of the famous internet marketing gurus.
. Good job !
theGypsy responded on 05 Mar 2008 at 7:22 am #
@ SEOreef - Well hey, I ain’t famous… but I do sell an ebook for a mere $10… the catch? No promises of glory merely a grounding in SEO. It actually started life as a hand-out for clients so they better understood the process, mates encouraged me to polish it for publication… thus it was born.
There are plenty of notable marketers that have published great offerings… it is the get rich quick that is the bane of the eBook world.
Ultimately there will always be poor souls that believe they CAN get rich quick, such publications shall continue to thrive…
Dave (again)
Richard Legg responded on 06 Mar 2008 at 4:19 pm #
I think that a lot of the problem is that most of these people trying to tell you how to make money, have never actually made a penny themselves.
Just spending 5 minutes to Google the author and their site can tell you pretty much if it’s the real deal or not. If you don’t get any results at all then stay well away.
The truth is there are plenty of people out there who are making a living online (just look at Jim) so it’s not impossible.
It’s just becoming increasingly difficult to filter through all the junk!
Richard
Rene responded on 08 Mar 2008 at 8:48 pm #
Well it is not only on forums like digital point it is almost everywhere where newbee’s and cheaters wanna make fast cash.It is also on : scriptlance and site where prgrammers can place a bid on a project.Well I can tell 70% is un-experience in the field but place anyway a bid and hoping that the ” costumer ” pay 10 to 50% in advance - so that the programmer can start.Well I can speak out of experience from the 10 projects , just 2 went good.I made a misstake the firsttime to pay 20% in advance the programmer never finished his work.Later on it happend 7 times more , but that time I was not so stupid to pay in advance .But the ” programmer ” keep on asking … So beware.
Rene
Carol responded on 09 Mar 2008 at 9:24 am #
Money does not come easily…We should put effort and har work. I don’t belive to that kind of ebooks too.
harshads responded on 15 Mar 2008 at 7:00 am #
I am also getting such messages on e-mail ids…
These things are weired and these are worse than spammers as it is the matter of money.
I always see some similar messages on DP regarding selling ebook and all messy stuff!
but can’t do much about it.
Asia'h Epperson responded on 27 Apr 2008 at 7:10 pm #
Now don’t trust any of the ebook after buying two to three. Totally useless.