Before I start what I’m about to tell you, this is an updated version of the post I previously written a year ago, and I have added more information on identifying a scammy (is that a word?) sales page. At first, I thought of creating a report out of this stuff and sell it for $9.95 but I do not know how many people will be interested. Anyway, may be I will use this post as a test to see how many people are interested and may be I will decide to release a report entirely about this stuff…
And May Be.. Just May Be
You Should Read What Scam Information
I Had For You In This Particular Post
Since It’s Free To Read As For Now !
Okay, first of all, I want to get thing straight… the stuff you are about to read is all in my opinion of how I, The Bad Blogger, identify a scammy sales page. You ready to listen? I bet so… okay, let’s use a real scammy sales page that I had identify a year back and show you every single scam that you should look out for when you hit a sales page, that way I believe you will…
Understand Better And
Identify Faster Before
You Even Get Caught Up In Buying Scam Products
That Will Piss You Off !
Here’s the link to the real scammy sales page: http://www.mikesmoneysite.com/ (Anyway all the links are down on that page)

Now, have you ever received comments like this on your blog?
“Hey, nice post, very well written.
You should post more about this.”
I had received quite a lot since a year back, and it is link to a sales page about a guy name Mike Smithson who earns $5000 plus a month for posting links on Google. I doesn’t know if you think this guy is real or not, but I got to tell you he had been mark by…
The Bad Blogger
Scum Of Approval !
And I’m going to proof to you what I just said is for real and not some kind of a joke …seriously I mean it. Listen: I once written this post a year back identify two mistakes he make in his sales page and I bet he had read every single words I had written back then and change those two mistakes and thought he could get away with it. I had something to tell this scammy idiot…
“Your Copywriting Skills Are Below Zero And
Even If You Make Those Changes…
You Can’t Fool The Bad Blogger !”
Would you like to know what are the two changes he had made since then? Well… the first one is his headline and his sub headline. Previously it was written like this: “Learn How I Make $5000+ A Month Posting Links On Google” with a stupid sub headline as this: “Would You Like To Make $5000 A Month Posting A Link On Google.” As you can see both the headline and sub headline tells a different story as to “posting links” with “posting a link.”And because he read my previous post, he had since change the sub headline to…
Would You Like to Make $5,000 a Month Posting Links on Google?
The second thing he changes, is his bio on the sidebar. Previously whoever from whichever country that get’s to his scammy sales page, the sentence… “I live in ____, ____”… the blank will changes to which ever country you are from and which ever states you stay. Well here’s the kicker: He never expected a country like Singapore which does not have states will ever reach his sales page. But his wrong. You see, since Singapore do not have a states, the damn stupid software he used…
Can’t Track Any State Where I Stay !
And with that said, here’s what it become… “I live in Singapore,0o.” Well, since he read my previous post a year back, he had since clear of the states problem and change it to just country. You know, I can’t imagine how powerful my blog information are….
Even Scammer
Could Read My Blog !
Sometime, I just feel my blog is better than John Chow’s blog (which he always brag about how good his life are without any specific hard info) and Alvin Phang’s blog (which had also started to brag about how his life are going on then giving blogger great blogging info) and Carl Ocab’s Blog (which had too much lousy guest post that just don’t give powerful content). Well, I’m not saying they suck, I’m saying in terms of content, I might as well…
Win The Information Cup
As A Champ !
Okay, enough about how good my blog is, let’s press on. As you know. now a days there are a lot of sales page that is not just scammy but also stupid. Okay, here’s what they did… they like to show this:
It Is Featured On
Google, MSN And Yahoo !
Guess what? My blog is also featured on Google, MSN and Yahoo. So what’s the big deal? The Big deal is, they thought using those big names such as Google, MSN and Yahoo will made them look real, but if fact…
It Make Them Look Real Stupid !
Not much of a scam but here’s something you might want to know: Some sales page like the one that Mike Smithson had, he even go further, saying it was featured on “ABC” and “CNN.” I mean how ridiculous is that. Tell me where’s the video and also proof about this big claims? You see, he needs proof for his big claims if it had been featured in big media such as…
TV, Magazine Or Newspaper !
If you go right down to Mike Smithson sales page you will see there is a comment box where you can type, but guess what? Whatever you type, it won’t appear. And here’s something about using comment box as testimonial: Never, I repeat never ever use a comment box in a sales page.
It’s A Sales Page Not A Blog…
God Damn It !
And lastly here’s how you identify whether a testimonial is real or just self-type bullshit:
- Every testimonial must have a picture of the person.
- Every testimonial must have the full name of the person. (Full name as in John Carlton, not J.Carlton)
- Every testimonial must have the website URL (if he had) of the person.
You want to see how a real testimonial looks like? Go to this sales page and look at those testimonial : http://www.simplewritingsystem.com/ (I have got the product myself and is the best in all basic copywriting product ever) – Forgive me, pitching is in my bones and I just can’t help myself sometime, especially…
I Have A Strong Belief
In The Product !
Okay that’s it for the free info I’m giving out here, below are few website that you can use to check whether or not the sales page you had hit on is a scam and resource to look out for.
Stay Scam Free,
The Bad Blogger
Also Know As “The Scam-Free Blogger”
P.S I do hope this post will come in handy when you hit a sales page of an unknown author and is better to bookmark it before you forget.


















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Hi there,
Great article. Yes, I have seen sales pages like the one you mentioned in your post. I just avoid them.
Its good that you wrote this post. It will be very helpful for people who are new on the internet and don’t know how to spot – what’s real and what’s a scam.
Thanks for the good post & keep up the good work.
Mani Raj
Havoc Marketing
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June 18, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Lol the guy is from Sri Lanka which is where I’m from. Have to agree the site looks like a big scam
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Thanks for exposing him. This cunning comment spammer has the cheek to use someone else photo on his gravatar to get pass Akismet, and then point to a salespage with fake testimonials. A scum indeed.
I’ve already notified two bloggers who had allowed his spam comment. Very soon he will be exposed to everyone.
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People like this seriously irritate the heck out of me. Using a fake photo is just low, yeah?
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Havoc Marketing – Thanks Mani Raj, thanks for the praise…
Nishadha – If you are from UK, or US, the sentence will change to the country you are from, you see while here is “Singapore” it word it as he is from Singapore, so if you are in Sri Lanka, it will words it as “Sri Lanka”, that’s the Scum Number 2 I had mention above.
Charles – Big Idea Blogger – Great man, at first I thought his real when I kept getting the same comment, I feel is just not right anymore….
Corey Freeman – ya, there is one time, a commentator trying to play around with Alvin Phang’s numbers on his blog, but did not have link to his website and also no picture at all, I feel this type of people is what, I, The Bad Blogger indicate as the “Scared Shit-less” type of people.
Thanks for the great post. No wonder I have him posting comments on my blogs. It looks like some kind of auto software doing all this SH*T…..Anyway I think he have saw your post about the scams and he change the SCAM #1…
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i could a gree no less bro…this kind of selling and marketing trully sucks! can’t they have any more juice of creativity on selling their stuffs than spamming? darn!
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This same guy left a comment on one of my blogs and I thought he was pretty shaky. He even identified himself as being from my hometown. I immediately looked his name up in the phone directory and guess what! It wasn’t there. No joke. This guy will get what is coming to him sooner or later. He needs to clean up his act and quit all his lying. Thanks for the great post!
Friends 4 Life!
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Gerard – Oh no… I teach him a great lesson !
elmot – Ya it truly sucks, and I think there are more out there, even those who are quite famous…
Eddie Garcia – no problem, at least you identify him, actually I saw his comment on your blog too, is the same as mine…
I got this on my blog a few times as well. This affiliate came up with a plan to make some cash. We may not do this ourselves nor like when people do it but that fact is that person is making money from spamming the hell out our blogs and forums. If you click through to the offer he or she is promoting. You will see that offer is in some of the CPA networks such peerfly and etc.
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Good post – thanks for the heads up! Tom
Great post. You are sharp. The con artists are located. Clear the building! Just joking! Thanks for sharing.
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Deneil Merritt – Ya I see that too…
Tom, Jones – thanks for commenting…
PraShawn – no problem..
lol. he must be spammer and scammer. we need to encourage people fight againts scam
student loan tips – yes.. we need to have a group to fight against them, but I wonder who will create this group?
ahhaa! i quite saw them too, some of those famous guys out there who uses the same tactics. not with me…
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Hey! ‘Bad Blogger’ I am new to your blog but am loving your content
I too have had that Google guy post on one of my blogs.
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elmot – Ha… Ha… you did realize, oh well is always them…
Farrhad A – hey, thanks for loving my content, and be sure to tell this to all your readers, make sure they will spread too, so that everyone knows the scum…
Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.
tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!
I don’t know how but I have already developed a unique quality of identifying such stuff! If anyone is showing me a very profitable trick I carefully investigate the matter!
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All shared info is great but I personally like the bottom half where you shared those very informative link. That may help me and other people to get info about scam pages.
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Well, thanks for reading my stuff, hope to see you around soon…
Good guide my friend. Will help people to recognize scam. At least they will be more careful.
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Ya I really hope those starter don’t get caught in this scam….
I thought this post is going to be a long rant about being scammed and also with the very long title.lol.. My curiosity kicked in and I wanna know what you have to say because I’m into money making online and this post might come in handy in the future.
Anyway, I did come across other similar sales page and one that almost got me to pay was the sales page of a lady from my country. Though you said that it’s a software that can check from which country you are and set’s it so people may think they came from the same country, that sales page I mentioned indeed came from a local here and I actually know her.
I almost clicked the pay button..lol…but then had to call other friends and found out it was a scam!
Thanks to people like you who have eyes for this kind of tricks. Well, done..and oh, I suggest you make the report but do charge low so people can afford it..
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Lucky you… seriously there is one scam marketer that i knew who make hell lots of money online that really is a scam, because his support page is dead no matter how you send in for any request or refund no one will reply you.
I forget what’s his name right now but I will try to find his name out and reveal in here.
This is a very insightful blog that will help people determine what is real and what is actually a scam. With a declining economies in many parts of the world (especially in the US), people are looking for any way to earn some extra money. Scam marketers love to target these people. Great post!

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Thanks
Great article. Yes, I have seen sales pages like the one you mentioned in your post. I just avoid them.
Its good that you wrote this post. It will be very helpful for people who are new on the internet and don’t know how to spot – what’s real and what’s a scam.
Thanks for the good post & keep up the good work.
I sure like to help, but I really hope that those scam online people could just stop all their stuff and live a life, anyway thanks for reading my stuff, talk to you soon.
I started laughing when I read the “featured on Bing, Yahoo, etc” – I thought I was the only one that ever noticed these things haha.
If you really wanna see how scammy the site is, remove the /mike/1/ from the url and it takes you to a credit score website -__-
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Lol… well, I even saw blogger like John Chow, Alvin Phang and some other blogger using that… I feel they should not use that for their own creditability as this was something everyone have unless they are featured on CNBC, Fox News or some other network that’s not normally get recommended… I mean Yahoo, Google and Bing… OMG… I feel ridiculous…
What a lovely article. I spend hours on the internet reading blogs, about tons of different subjects. I have to first of all give kudos to whoever created your theme and second of all to you for writing what i can only describe as an unbelievable post. I honestly believe there is a skill to writing articles that only a few posses and frankly you have it. The combination of informative and quality content is definitely extremely rare with the large amount of blogs on the internet.
I am very surprised that anyone at all would be able to mistake this website that you give as an example , for anything other than a sales pitch. The website has PR of 0 and consist of 5 pages. I am also surprised th learn that he is spamming as he has only 8 ! backlinks to his website. I do not want to sound mean but if someone is looking at this guy’s website and expects to be handed 5k for placing link, or links on google, deserves to be taken for all his/her money.
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Of course, for old timer it will be obvious we can see the scam, but for newbies it won’t be…
good tips…. but for the newbies… I think it is must read for them so the next time they dont fall into such traps
Ya, I wrote this post because I too fall for it back then when I was new…
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