Comments on: Firefox Scam Email to make Money From Adsense Referals

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:51:59 +0000

thanks for the info. I also getting lots of this email.

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By: keith

keith — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:35:59 +0000

@Nirmal True but if people like us make others aware it would be good

@Ryan True but by scamming people lol

@Rishi when did you apply for adsense?

By: Rishi

Rishi — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:33:03 +0000

I have got such emails a lot but now I’m crazy because ADSENSE HAVE NOT APPROVED ME!

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:16:14 +0000

I’m glad you reported it Keith, hopefully it will prevent some people for falling for it. I guess the bright side of things is that they are spreading Firefox.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:58:20 +0000

Scams everywhere and in adsense too. This shows to what extend people can go to make money. Too intelligent guy. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: keith

keith — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:57:41 +0000

Ryan,

Very true, but he came up against a geek so i was able to track the flaws, any normal unsuspecting user would been fooled.

I have reported the activity to both host and adsense, as it is a case of cheating.

Keith

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:53:07 +0000

That is definitely pretty underhanded, but I’m surprised the scammers didn’t try to take it a step further and reskin the download button to incorporate the Adsense Referral code. That way they wouldn’t have needed to take the user to another download page.