Potential Act to Live On! ~ needed acts to enhance your life ~ » business http://potentialact.com this site contains tips, articles and advices about some needed acts to maximize your life potential, either in life, business, online experience, time value, and blogging / websites making experience Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Always Read the TOS Before Joining Any Site http://potentialact.com/always-read-the-tos-before-joining-any-site.htm http://potentialact.com/always-read-the-tos-before-joining-any-site.htm#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:19:28 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/always-read-the-tos-before-joining-any-site.htm I know some people have the habits of not reading the TOS (Term of Service) before joining or signing up at any site. They might hear about the sites from someone else, they would just get interested in joining the same sites (especially those ones that give them the possibilities of making some profits).

So these people would just hit the sign up or register link, enter in the requested personal detail, turn on the check box containing “I agree with the term of this site” right away, without even bother to spend some time to read it first, and then hit the submit button. Few minutes or even seconds after they got the “sign up succeeded” confirmation, they started using the service right away. Still, without reading the TOS.

I hope my readers didn’t do the same mistake they did. If you did, then I would recommend you to start reading the TOS of every sites / services you have joined from now on to make sure you understand the sites better than none. And if you are planning to sign up for any site, from this moment, read their TOS, always, before you sign up.

Why?

I keep reading that some people were questioning the importance of reading the TOS. They often said that it was just for the formality.

I would say that the TOS actually serves more than what we had ever thought of. And now, I would explain why we will always have to read their TOS before we sign up. Even when we have already become their members, we will always need to read the TOS again after sometimes, in case you would break the term unknowingly, or in case that they have changed it.

Read the TOS So You Would Not Break the Rules.

Just think about it, just take this example:

  • You were seeking for a site that enabled you to store files on their servers and to share your files with your friends or anybody that ever drop a visit to your links.

  • You read some information out there, about one certain site (let’s call it the “XYZ service”) offered this, and when you read about how great the speed of downloading from the site, you found that it would be great to sign up for your own.

  • Later, you came to XYZ site. The site looked great, you were impressed, and you signed up right away and not even bothered to read their TOS (Term of Service) first.

  • So you hit the sign up link, entered all the needed details for registration, when it came to a check box saying “I agree with the term of service”, you just turned on the check box and never even bothered to open the TOS link first to read it.

  • You submitted the registration right away.

  • A confirmation of your registration appeared; you logged into the site right away and started using the service.

  • And you uploaded all the files you could upload to your account at that server, and promoted it everywhere, you put the notification in your own blog, in forums, in emails, everywhere you could use to promote the files sharing.

  • And later, suddenly the files were gone. You might not notice it yet, until some complaints coming to you, flooding your blog’s comments section or anywhere you have promoted the sharing back then.

  • And you wondered a lot. Why? Why they said that the files couldn’t be downloaded?

  • Later you checked back to your account at the XYZ service, perhaps you could still log into the account and you found that the files were gone. Or, the worse condition was you were no longer able to log into your account. The site either said “your account doesn’t exist” or “this account is suspended”.

Wondering about what was going on; you decided to use the contact form of XYZ and asked them about the reason behind their deletion towards your files or even your account. Soon, you would find yourself getting response back from XYZ team that you had violated their term of usage / term of service.

In fact, there were some points inside the TOS that were clear enough for those who cared to preview the TOS before they started using the service. These are the small examples:

  • You are not allowed to upload ‘copyright infringement’ related files.
  • You are not allowed to upload files containing nude or adult category.
  • You are not allowed to upload any warez or cracks or any illegal software or files.

And so on. The next point warned you about the suspension of your account and deletion towards all the files if you broke their term of service. At the bottom of the TOS, it stated that by signing up you understood these points mentioned in their term of service and you accepted all the consequences if you happened to break any rule.

So if you happened to upload any kind of files mentioned as “the prohibited files” in the TOS, no wonder that your files were later deleted from the site and you might have experienced the suspension of your account.

With all these conditions, would you dare to ask them which point you had violated, if you had never cared to read their term before then? Well, some people did that, and well … just imagine how the XYZ team (or the other people) would react towards this kind of ex-member?

Nobody would blame XYZ team, but a lot of people would call you as an ignorant. So hopefully, you have never experienced this and you did learn the TOS of every site you have joined.

Read the TOS to Find Out the Legitimacy of the Site.

I keep hearing that many participants of “get paid to” (GPT) programs being scammed many times by some sites, for example, by certain “paid to read” (PTR) or “paid to click” (PTC) sites.

I have to warn you that mostly those people have fallen into the scam scheme because they didn’t learn the TOS of the sites when they decided to participate in the online earning sites.

Let me tell you some small examples:

  • You read some recommendation here and there about one certain GPT site (let’s take a PTC site as example). The people just boasted about how great the site was, about how many ads they got daily (20 or even 30 daily ads to click). They also told that the payout was low, you could cash out immediately after you reached $1.

  • So you made your own visit to the PTC site. You read at their main page, really stated like some people claimed, “Payout: $1.00″.

  • You checked their FAQ to make sure. You noted some “how it works” explanations and some other points you thought to yourself “Okay, I know it now”. You also noticed how the FAQ stated that you could cash out through Paypal, E-Gold, (and perhaps the FAQ also stated some other online payment processors) after reaching $1.

  • Since you have a Paypal account, you signed up right away, without reading the TOS.

  • After the sign up confirmation appeared, you logged in immediately and started clicking on the advertisements. You went to the site daily, you noticed that the number of advertisements were lower than some claims back then. You wondered but you kept clicking.

  • Later, when you were almost at the minimum payout value, suddenly the minimum payout increased to $2! You started questioning about the site’s legitimacy, but you kept trying because you read how some ‘members’ stated that they ever got paid back then when it was still $1 minimum payout.

  • But later, when it was almost $2 for you, the site was down. You couldn’t click to reach the remaining 30 cents to get your $2.

  • Later the site got back online again. The PTC site stated in their own forum, gave announcement to the members that they would raise the minimum payout to $3 because they had to cover the new server costs.

  • Perhaps you became panicked; you almost reached the $2. You could log into the site, but the ads were even fewer, you couldn’t even make 10 cents per day.

  • The next day you accessed the main page, the minimum payout had become $4!!!

  • And you also noticed that they would soon switch to a new payment method.

The site became very suspicious for you. Now would you care to check various information sources about the legitimacy of this site? Well, I have to tell you, at this state, it is actually a bit late. But it is better than none.

A very wise action if you later decided to stop clicking for a while. Later you got information from some friends in another forum you had just joined that they also started questioning the legitimacy of the site (perhaps you also want to check the article “Why We Would Always Need the Community” to know why a community is needed to exchange some information). One member in the forum told you that he had stepped back after he learned the TOS of that site before he signed up. He told you that if he hadn’t read the TOS, he might have fallen into the same trap.

You might say that the FAQ back then stated that minimum payout, you found nothing suspicious back then, you just wondered about why the ads number was different for some members. But there was not about the FAQ, your friend stated. It was within the TOS.

So later, this friend would tell you that he found the TOS and the FAQ and the main page statements had contradicted each other. One thing that you finally understood: 20 ads per day were for upgraded members. You were a free member, no wonder you got less ads. You started guessing, so those people claimed they got 20 ads up to 30 ads per day might have purchased the upgrade and became premium members.

Now there was more information shared by your new friend that brought you into sudden awareness. The main page of the suspected site stated “Payout: $1″. The FAQ stated “the minimum payout is $1″ through various online payment processors. But this new friend you just met in the forum had noticed something you never read back then.

It was within the TOS, and the TOS stated that the payout would be done via Paypal (no other online payment methods being mentioned within the TOS) and the minimum payout was $10.00!

Got it yet?

You quickly went to the site again, to check their TOS. But you didn’t find the point mentioned by your friend there. You assumed that the friend was mistaken this site to another one. But you didn’t ever think of the possibility that the TOS might have been changed before you finally read it on your own. You might go back to your friend, sent some private message telling the person that you didn’t find the point he said within the TOS. The person told you that “then they must have realized the contradiction and changed it as soon as possible.”

Are you aware of the importance of reading the TOS and to re-read the TOS again now?

So if some people stated that Term of Statement (TOS) was just for the ‘formality’, they were absolutely correct if it was about the site I mentioned in the example above.

Later, you found that the site changed the minimum payout again, to $8.99. If you had stopped clicking on the ads back then, you would be glad that you didn’t fall into the trap for the third time.

And if later the site really turned out to have “$10.00″ minimum payout, and later a lot of people stated that it was scam, there’s no need to be surprised.

I guess my example above was enough to make you aware of the importance of reading the TOS of every site you are joining, and to re-read the TOS again, often, after you become one of their participants.

It’s better to stay informed, than being ignorant and stumbled on the consequences of whatever that might come as the result of not learning the points within their TOS. The latter pain will hurt you more, really. So make sure you always read the TOS.

Good luck!

]]> http://potentialact.com/always-read-the-tos-before-joining-any-site.htm/feed Why We Would Always Need the Community. http://potentialact.com/why-we-would-always-need-the-community.htm http://potentialact.com/why-we-would-always-need-the-community.htm#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:09:59 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/why-we-would-always-need-the-community.htm We all, human races, are special. So many characteristics of us make us different from other living creatures, for example, animals, plants and other species. The most noticeable characteristic to recognize about us, the people, is … the “Community”.

What will come to your mind when you finally hear the word “Community”? Some people would probably still associate the word “Community” with certain exclusive or high class society. Well, back then perhaps it often sounded like that. However, nowadays some people will have various definitions about “Community”:

  • a group of people who share the same nationality
  • a group of people who share the same religion
  • a group of people who come from the same generation
  • a group of people who join the same club
  • a group of people who share the same interest

And so on.

That’s why when we enter the realm of World Wide Web; we will also find the online communities in various parts of the Internet. You will find various sites where a lot of people are coming together, sharing the same interests and topics. We will find them in various blogs, directories, forums, and other kind of social networking sites.

And these people know the benefits of joining the community. They know the power of community.

Now think about it, we exist in this world, the vast world on our planet Earth. Now imagine your position, standing inside the vast real world, in this case, you are a visitor and you know nobody in current area, you know nothing about the neighborhood, you are just coming and you haven’t been familiar with all things inside this world. What do you feel? What would you do?

Don’t you feel the situation of being lost? Will you just stand there and stay in your confusion? You will certainly seek for any information, won’t you?

Internet is a vast virtual world. The situation will be just about the same. Being alone in the midst of the vast virtual world will make some people feel lost, especially when they are still new comers. They will need information whether it covers topics about life, news, multimedia, entertainment, language, web development, article writing, even online earning and other various topics. We are just the same with these people, even if we are no longer new comers, we still need information.

And that’s what the communities provide: the information exchange. That’s the reason of why we would always need the community.

Now just imagine you later enter the gate of a community. Just take one example, the online earning community; you have been there because you are just entering the online earning realm. You will soon find a melting pot of different nations who are also trying out their chance to get profits from their online experiences. There are many topics covered within the community site. You may find various discussions about online earning chance and how some Internet users have succeeded in making their earning from Internet; perhaps you will also find some way of earning online that never came into your mind back then. There might also be various information, perhaps about which programs that still exist online but actually have scammed a lot of people, or which programs that have really paid the participants, and so on.

Now, finally your eyes are opened by what you read from the community sites. Start from that moment, finally you have some guides about the online earning topic; you know which one really works and which one to avoid.

I know some of you, who have found such community sites, have decided to stay lurking and just reading the information shared by the sites. However, I believe that some others have also joined the communities and added new information that will be useful for everyone.

Whether you just want to lurk or to become active in such community sites, the communities still benefit for the people who come and read. However, what if you don’t find some information you need? Will you just go away from one site to another again and again until you find it, just because you don’t want to register or sign up for a participation?

Well, you can judge the effectiveness by yourself. However, I found a situation from my own experience from a community site that I trusted. I signed up, and then asked for the information from the other members there. And I found it was more effective because few minutes after I started the topic, some members already responded to my question and they came from various places of this world with various explanations and source of information I would need.

Some of the respondents had also provided several URLs that supported their information so I could survey the links on my own for further explanation. I would have taken longer time to find those things on my own. So this is about the power of community: the information exchange. This is the point I want to bring into your attention for now, I would like to add more about the benefits of joining a community, but I would reserve it for later.

However, you can also try it on your own. And you will soon realize that there are more benefits from joining a community that you trust. Believe me; the power of a community is no longer about the exclusive definition of the word “Community”. It is the powerful and fast information exchange between the members, and that’s what you and I will always need in this vast virtual world of Internet.

]]> http://potentialact.com/why-we-would-always-need-the-community.htm/feed PTR / PTC Scam List Update http://potentialact.com/ptr-ptc-scam-list-update.htm http://potentialact.com/ptr-ptc-scam-list-update.htm#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:21:21 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/ptr-ptc-scam-list-update.htm I just recollected some squidoo.com updates about “Paid to Read” / “Paid to Click” scam list. Actually I planned to just directly update my previous PTR / PTC Scam List I posted at December 2007 back then. However, I have decided to keep the previous list as it was, in case everybody wants to compare the lists.

So here we go, my latest update about PTR / PTC sites that have been reported by various PTR / PTC participants to squidoo.com PTC / PTR Scam List and Reviews lense, and from the author’s own research from various sources.

PTR / PTC Scam Sites (from Squidoo.com lense)

The scam sites are listed in Alphabetical Order, starting with Numbers, and then Letters. Some sources are included within the brackets, and not sustainable means that it is not possible for the site to pay the high amounts of money they promise.

1
1-800-Mail.com (Gptboycott)
1000Clicksptr.com(uronlinebiz)
100cents-1000dollars.com
100-dollars-mail.com
100dollarsbonus.info (uronlinebiz)
100dollarsmails.com
100euromails.com
100usd.com
10dollar-mail.com
168paid.com (uronlinebiz)
1-dollar-mail.com
1stprofit.com

2
2-dollar-mail.com
2-opt.com (Gptboycott)
2008mails.com (getpaidforum)
200dollars-email.com
200dollarsmail.com
200eurocent-200euro.com
200euromails.com
200euromails.net
20dollarsmail.com
247payouts.com
25dollarsmail.com
25-dollars-mail.com
2dollaremails.com

3
3-dollar-mail.com
300dollarsmail.com
30dollarsmail.com (Gptboycott)
37-21mail.com

4
400dollarsmail.com

5
5-dollar-mail.com (getpaidforum)
500cents-500dollars.net
500cents-500dollars.org
500pounds-and-500pence.com
50centptr.com (uronlinebiz)
50dollarsmail.com
520Searcher.com
5dollarmails.com

6
60euromail.com
60de.com

7
7878clicks.com(uronlinebiz)
7centsolos.com
7thheavenptr.net (Gptboycott)

8
8cent-emails.com
80euromail.com

a
a-n-cash.com (not sustainable)
an-cash.com (not sustainable)
aaa-mails.com
activeptr.net (not sustainable)
ad5.biz (uronlinebiz)
ad-fortune.com
adsbux.org
adsmaker.net
adsneed.com(uronlinebiz)
aglocomails.com (not sustainable)
ahacash.com
allcashmail.com
allyousubmitters.com (Gptboycott)
almiyachts.com
alwayspay.com
american-mails.com
amigoemail.com
Amity-Cash.com (watch list, gptboycott)
ans-advertising.com (uronlinebiz)
apachemails.com
applemails.com
appolomails.com
arab-gpt.com (uronlinebiz)
Arabbux.com (PtcTalk)
arcane-mails.com
arcsurvey.com
arcticmails.com (uronlinebiz)
asonewishes.com (uronlinebiz)
atom-mails.com (not sustainable)
atomsmails.com (not sustainable)
auction-emails.com
awsurveys.com (read update 10 Dec 2007)

b
babyloncash.com
ban-mail.com (uronlinebiz)
banboocash.com (not sustainable)
bank-mails.com
bank-mails.net (not sustainable)
bearshare-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
beautymails.com (uronlinebiz)
beeptr.com (uronlinebiz)
beetrmails.com (not sustainable)
best-mails.com (getpaidforum)
best-hyip.be
bestflymails.com
beta-cash.com
bettybucks.com
beyondemails.com (uronlinebiz)
bez-minimum.info (getpaidforum)
bgpaymails.com (uronlinebiz)
bigdollat-mails
biggestdollars.com
bigluck-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
bigpaymail.com (Gptboycott)
billiondollarmails.com(uronlinebiz)
bluemaniacs.com (uronlinebiz)
bluerwebmail.com
boa-mails.com
bobomails.com (not sustainable)
boffopaidmail.com (Gptboycott)
boratmails.com (uronlinebiz)
businessptr.com (uronlinebiz)
boss-mails.com
BournemouthBreeze.com (Gptboycott)
bravevolitation.com
bugcash.com
buxer.org (read update 25 Jan 2008)
buxeuro.com
buxgalore.com (read update 8 Dec 2007)
Is bux.to a scam? (read squidoo.com lense about it)

c
camel-mails.com
can-discount.com
candy-mail.com(uronlinebiz)
cannabismails.com
capitalmails.net
Cash2all (lots of non-payment complaints at their forum)
cashbux.com
cashbux.org
casheden.com (uronlinebiz)
CassandrasClicks (Gptboycott)
cash-kitty.com
CashFiesta.com (Gptboycott)
cashnclicks.com
cashorigin.com (uronlinebiz)
cashpointclicks.com
cashread.com (Gptboycott)
cashsea.com
casino-mails.com
cat-mails.com
cat-ptr.com
catch-cash.com (Gptboycott)
class-act-clicks.co
classical-mail.com (Gptboycott)
cgcash.info
charm-mail.com
chicago-ptr.com (uronlinebiz)
chobit-mails.com
chobitmails.com
chobitsmails.net
click2earnmoney.com (uronlinebiz)
click-mails.com
click-wizard.net (read update 2 Dec 2007)
clickbux.org
clickbuxx.com
clickcent.net (read update 7 Dec 2007)
clickearnmoney.com
clickingmoney4u.com
click-monkey.biz (uronlinebiz)
clickoly.com
clicks-4-cash.com (read update 21 Dec 2007)
clicktopsites.com (uronlinebiz)
clixy.net (read update 2 Dec 2007)
CloneBux.com (uronlinebiz)
cloudmails.com (uronlinebiz)
closet-clickers.com (uronlinebiz)
cloverclicks.net (read update 7 Dec 2007)
coast-mail.com
coastmail.com
coinclicks.info (read update 23 Dec 2007)
comeongain.com (getpaidforum)
compactmails.com
cookie-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
cooperativemail.com
copymails.com
cosplaymails.com (uronlinebiz)
coverclicks.com
cowboy-mail.com
crabmails.com
Crazy-4-cash.com (uronlinebiz)
cream-mails.com

d
dallas-ptr.com (uronlinebiz)
danger-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
davemails.com (not sustainable)
DarkAngelMails (watch list, gptboycott)
daydayupemails.com
dayscash.com (uronlinebiz)
dayseeking.net (uronlinebiz)
deepseacash.com
deliriouspaidemails.com (uronlinebiz)
delta-cash.com
devclix.com
devscripts.com (uronlinebiz)
DiamondBux.com (uronlinebiz)
digital-ptr.com
dj-mails.com
dog-mails.com (not sustainable)
dollar-factory.com (promotes a list of scam sites)
dollarsmaker.net
dollarslove.com (Gptboycott)
dollarsmaker.com (uronlinebiz)
dolphincents.com
donkeycash.info (uronlinebiz)
donut-m.biz (uronlinebiz)
duno.com
dragone-search.com
dragonhole.com
dreamstarmail.com (Gptboycott)
drumcash.com
dynasty-mails.com
dungeonanddragonemails.com
d-biz.com (uronlinebiz)

e
e-mailptr.com (not sustainable)
eagleclicknet.com (uronlinebiz)
earn-emails.com
earn4read.com (not sustainable)
earnptr.com
earnup.com
easy-gain.com (uronlinebiz)
easyhits.org (read update 14 Dec 2007)
egoldclicks.net (read update 21 Dec 2007)
electric-mails.com
elephantadvertising.com
elephant-mails.com
e-mailptr.com
email2rewards.com
e-mailpaysu.com
emailpremium.com
emailprofit.us
emails-empire.com
emailspayu.net
emails-empire.com
emeraldcoastptc.info
energy-mails.com
englandbux.com
englandbux.org
enjoyfunds.com
eqmails.com
eurocentsmail.com
eurobux.org
euro-mails.com
everylooking.com (uronlinebiz)
eceryrich.com (uronlinebiz)
expert-mails.com
eyemails.com (uronlinebiz)

f
fairydollars.com
FairyTalePTR.com (Gptboycott)
farland-cash.com
fastbux.com
fastbux.org
fastcashemaills.com
fastpaidptr.com (getpaidforum)
fellowequality.com (getpaidforum)
fillmyaccount.com
filmyinbox.com
fire-mails.com (not sustainable)
flashrich.com
flaviomails.be (uronlinebiz)
fly-field.com (not sustainable)
freeclickcash.net (read update 2 Dec 2007)
free-kingdom.com (not sustainable)
freemoneymails.net (uronlinebiz)
feer-mial.com
feermial.com
fortuneemail.com
fourleafclovermail.com (uronlinebiz)
ft-mails.com (not sustainable)
funkycashmail.com
futureptr.com
fx-mails.com (uronlinebiz)

g
gamma-cash.com
gem-mails.com
getpaid4clicks.com (uronlinebiz)
getpaidbyemail.com
getpaideasy.com
GetPaidLinks.net
getpaidwatch.com
getor-mails.com
giga-cash.com
giga-mails.com (not sustainable)
goaio.com
godmail.info (uronlinebiz)
godmails.com (uronlinebiz)
gogoplease.cn (uronlinebiz)
goldencatch.com (uronlinebiz)
goldenemail.com
goldptr.net
golfmails.com
goodluck-email.com
google-mails.com
gothic-mail.com (uronlinebiz)
gowellup.com
gp2profits.com (read update 15 Dec 2007)
graspaftertime.com
grassmails.com
green-cash.com
greetgold.com

h
halfmillionmails.com
halomoney.com (getpaidforum)
happyearning.com
happyptr.com
healthyptc.com
heroptr.com (uronlinebiz)
highbidppc.com
HappyBizs.com (Gptboycott)
holiday-mails.com (Gptboycott)
hollywood-mail.com
honestmails.com
honestptr.com
horse-mails.com
huge-mails.com
husky-mails.com

i
iCashout.com (PTCTalk) (update 20 Dec 2007)
ice-mails.net
ilikeemails.com
insaneptr.net (uronlinebiz)
inspiremarrow.com (not sustainable)
instant-dollars.com
instantads.org (uronlinebiz)
intgold.com
invest-mail.com
ippomails.com
ippomails.net

j
Jackpot-ads.biz (uronlinebiz)
jays-paidmail.com
job-readmail.com
junglecash.com
jungleclicks.com (uronlinebiz)
justcashInc.com

k
kiddays.com
kitcatcash.com
klikini.net
kukmail.com (uronlinebiz)

l
libertycash.biz
lifeisabeachclicks.net
lightstarmail.com
linkread.com
lion-mails.com
littleengineptr.com
loading-mails.com
logans-legacy.com
lolclicks.com
lookingemail.com (Gptboycott)
lovebird-mails.com
loveburd-mails.com
loving-mail.com

m
magicalmails.com (not sustainable)
MagiCash.com (uronlinebiz)
magic-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
magnetismail.com
MailBling.com (watch list, gptboycott)
mails2earn.net
Make-free-money-online.info (MFMO) (read update 2 Dec 2007)
malisanko-emails.com
mangoemails.com
many-mails.com
mapleptr.com (Gptboycott)
maystromails.com
maystromails.net
MDbux.com (PtcTalk)
medal-mails.com
mega-ptr.com
megaptr.com
meggarichemails.com
mellow-mails.com
metal-emails.com
metalpaidread.com
meteor-mails.com
michellesrandomizer.com
milion-mail.com
million-mails.com
millionaire-mail.com
mimimcash.com
Mintysmails.com
MiniBux.com (uronlinebiz)
moneybagsmail.com
moneybux.com
moneybux.org
moneyclicks.biz
moneyems.com
moneydogptc.com
moneymouser.com
moneysbank.com
moonbux.com
mushroomsmail.com
mybux.info (misleading, read update 5 Jan 2008)
mygpt.com
mysweetheartmail.com

n
nature-mails.com
netgold4u.com
newsptr.com (not sustainable)
niceptr.com
NickelsByEmail.com (Gptboycott)
NickOfTime-Email.com (watch list, gptboycott)
njgirl.biz (uronlinebiz)
no2allmails.com (uronlinebiz)
Nocs.Us (Gptboycott)
number-emails.com
numenmail.com (Gptboycott)

o
oceansoflife.com (uronlinebiz)
ohomails.com
onedollarmail.com
one-mails.com
oneperson-mail.com
onlygravy.com
onlythebestptr.com (promotes a list of scam sites)
ok-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
ok-ptr.com (not sustainable)
ok-usd.com (not sustainable)
OkayEmail.com (Gptboycott)
onlygravy.com (uronlinebiz)
on-sunday.com (uronlinebiz)
orangemails.com
oursharedsuccess.com
ourpaidmail.com (Gptboycott)

p
paidbux.com
PaidEmail.com (Gptboycott)
paidmail.ru
paidmailagency.com (not sustainable)
paidmailengine.com
paidstation.com (not sustainable)
paidworld.com
paidmail.ru (uronlinebiz)
papajuan.info
pay-to-mail.info (uronlinebiz)
payingcoins.com (getpaidforum)
payyou123.com
payyoudollar.com
perfect-emails.com
pekingcash.com
petromails.com
pcash.info (uronlinebiz)
phoenixcash.info
pig-mails.com (not sustainable)
pizzamails.com
platinum-investment.com
platinum-mails.com
pleasant-mails.com (not sustainable)
polarbearmails.com
pomoterprosemail.com (getpaidforum)
popomails.com
post4cash.com (uronlinebiz)
powerbux.org
power-mails.net (not sustainable)
powersmails.net (not sustainable)
premiermails.com (uronlinebiz)
pretti.mail.com
prettyptr.com
pretty-mail.com (not sustainable)
probux.net (ptctalk)
professionalmails.com
profers.com
profitfrommails.com
profitptr.net
propaidemail.com (from getpaidforum)
ptcad.net
ptindex.com (misleading - read update Jan 1 2008)
ptr-enterprise.com (not sustainable)
ptr-enterprises.com (not sustainable)
ptrforce.com (not sustainable)
ptr-hun.info
ptrland.com
ptr-trading.com
puma-mails.com (not sustainable)
pumpkin-mails.com (not sustainable)
puppypaid2clicks.com

q
quality-profits.com

r
rabbit-mails.com (not sustainable)
racingemails.com (not sustainable)
rainbow-mails.com
rainbow-mail.net (not sustainable)
Ranoscash.com
readformoney.us (uronlinebiz)
realmails.com
ReadRevenue.com (Gptboycott)
RichMails.com (Gptboycott)
rivermails.com
road-mails.com (not sustainable)
rock-mails.com
rolex-mails.com (not sustainable)
rosenet-emails.com
royalcash-mails.com
royalinvest.biz (not sustainable)
rushnsuccess.com (not sustainable)

s
saytheirmail.com (uronlinebiz)
scarlettmails.com
secret-mails.net
sea-mails.com
SeekBizs.com (Gptboycott)
seekmails.com (getpaidforum)
sepooq.com
seriousbucks.com
sharedmails.com
sheepmails.com (uronlinebiz)
shirecash.com (uronlinebiz)
silvanamails.com (Gptboycott)
silvanamails.net (Gptboycott)
siteclubemail.com
sky-mails.net (not sustainable)
sky-wolf.net
smile-email.com
smoothlinks.com
SnapDollars.com (uronlinebiz)
snowman-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
solarclick.com
southmails.com
space-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
spaz-emails.com (getpaidforum)
Spedia.com (Gptboycott)
speed-mails.com
spicemails.com (uronlinebiz)
spiderchess.com (uronlinebiz)
spidermanemails.com
sprint-cash.com
startmails.com
strongptr.com
studio-mail.com
summer-mails.us (uronlinebiz)
sunday-mails.com
sunflowersptr.com
sun-cash.com
suns-cash.com
sunsetclix.com (uronlinebiz)
super-mails.com (not sustainable)
super-program.com
superstarmail.com (not sustainable)
SurfJunky.com (Gptboycott)
Surfjunky.com
surfanearn.net
surforhits.com
surprisemails.com
surveyking.com (uronlinebiz)
sweet-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
symantec-mail.com (uronlinebiz)
systemmails.com

t
tarbux.com
tata-cash.com (not sustainable)
tendollarsmail.com
teneuromail.com
tomails.com (uronlinebiz)
TheBux.com (uronlinebiz)
thegoldclick.com
thegoldmail.com
timelessearn.com (not sustainable)
tnt-e-mail.com
tombmailer.com
tomoonmail.com (Gptboycott)
tons-referrals.com
tradingptr.com (not sustainable)
trafficcool.com (uronlinebiz)
trafficinvader.com (uronlinebiz)
travelmails.com (uronlinebiz)
treasureclicks.info (pays to upgraded member only)
trustfulmail.com
trustmails.com (not sustainable)
turtle-mails.com
twistedclickers.com
twodollarsmail.com
tycoonmails.com

u
unionptr.com
united-empire.com
unitmails.com
universalclix.com.br
usa-canada-email.com
usa-clicks.us (not sustainable)
usd-ad.com

v
vegas-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
verdiencredits.nl (not sustainable)
vice-ptr.com
viennamails.com (getpaidforum)
viper-clicks.com
virtualcardzone.com (read update 7 Jan 2008)
visionptr.com (uronlinebiz)

w
warm-mails.com (not sustainable)
wc-mails.com (getpaidforum)
weapon-earnings.info (uronlinebiz)
webbercash.com
well-email.com (uronlinebiz)
welovepay.com (not sustainable)
western-clicks.com (uronlinebiz)
western-mails.com (not sustainable)
wet-clicks.com
wingmails.com
womail.com (uronlinebiz)
woderemails.com (uronlinebiz)
wonderful-mails.com (not sustainable)
woo-mails.com
worldbux.info (uronlinebiz)
worldwidemails.com
workmails.com (not sustainable)
WowEarnings.com (Gptboycott)
wow-mails.com

X
xsc-mail.com (uronlinebiz)
xtremeptc.com (uronlinebiz)

y
y2e.info (read update 2 Dec 2007)
yippeemails.com

z
zero-investments.com
zwallet.com (gone)
zy-mails.com (uronlinebiz)
(http://www.getpaidforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=253189)

Some notes from squidoo.com about the list:

This list is not intended to bring down anyone’s business. If you think that a website is listed in here wrongfully, you could indicate it in my guestbook and I will look into it. Thanks.

Illegal PTR / PTC Sites (from Squidoo.com lense)

According to the same squidoo.com lense, the following is a list of PTR/PTC sites that are using the CashCrusader script illegally.

http://cashcrusadersoftware.com/unlicensed_list

You might need to reconsider any participation towards these sites.

10-cash.com
100euro-mail.com
10dollar-mail.com
10euro-mail.com
2-dollar-mail.com
2008mails.com
2dollar-mail.com
5-dollar-mail.com
5dollarmails.com
60de.com
ad-qds.com
an-cash.com
asonewishes.com
atomsmails.com
bamboomails.com
banboocash.com
beetrmails.com
believemail.com
bestflymails.com
beyondemails.com
bez-minimum.info
bigmoolah.com
bluerwebmail.com
boffopaidmail.com
boss-mails.com
bravevolitation.com
bridge-mails.com
cash88.com
cat-ptr.com
cgcash.info
chobit-mails.com
clickoly.com
coastmails.com
color-mail.com
comeongain.com
digitptr.com
domainmails.com
donkeycash.info
dw-mails.com
eiaio.com
electric-mails.com
eqmails.com
family-clicks.com
fastpaidptr.com
fatcashcow.net
feer-mial.com
feermial.com
fellowequality.com
firstmoney.nl
flamemails.com
flh1adf103.kng.mesh.ad.jp
fortuneemail.com
gcrmail.info
getpaid4clicks.com
goldedptr.com
goldencatch.com
gowellup.com
graspaftertime.com
halomoney.com
happyptr.com
hello-mails.com
heysey.net
inspiremarrow.com
ituoiguadagni.altervista.org
kazanclireklam.com
kedai.info
kedai.sg
kedai.us
lookingemail.com
loveptr.com
megptr.com
merocash.net
msclicks.com
mushroomsmails.com
neomail.wgj.jp
numenmail.com
okayemail.com
on-sunday.com
paidemail4u.com
paying-mails.com
payingcash.info
payingcoins.com
payingscash.info
pcash.info
phoenixcash.info
pomoterprosemail.com
popomails.com
powersmails.net
prettmail.com
projectutopia.org
prosperousboom.com
ptpexchange.com
ptr-enterprises.com
pub.pub-gratuite.be
roadsmails.com
runner.angel-letter.net
rushnsuccess.com
sheepmails.com
skechclick.net
sky-mails.net
sky-wolf.net
snake-mail.com
spaz-emails.com
startmails.com
strongptr.com
sun-cash.com
sunflowersptr.com
suns-cash.com
tradingptr.com
travelmails.com
usa-clicks.us
usd-ad.com
verdienthuis.info
wc-mails.com
web.kedai.tv
wmleader.ru
wonderemails.com
worldwide-mails.com
xray-cashs.com
yippeemails.com

Make sure to always check squidoo.com site, as I notice that the site is updated daily and a lot of PTR / PTC participants have given their feedbacks and reported some new scam sites they later found.

]]> http://potentialact.com/ptr-ptc-scam-list-update.htm/feed Online Earning … Is it worth your time? http://potentialact.com/online-earning-is-it-worth-your-time.htm http://potentialact.com/online-earning-is-it-worth-your-time.htm#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:05:03 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/online-earning-is-it-worth-your-time.htm Back then, there was one of my articles titled “why PTR / PTC programs are not always suitable for everyone“. It was addressed to people who considered of joining any “paid to read” or “paid to click” programs, but generally you would have gotten a note about the importance of self organizing, especially about whether these things were worth your time and life. And now, I would like to expand upon the general situation in our life, especially when we talk about … online earning versus offline earning.

I believe most of us have known that Internet is a giant resource of earning money. Just take a look, you will find a lot of blogs with advertisement, business websites, GPT (Get Paid To) programs like paid to read (PTR), paid to click (PTC), paid to search, paid to sign up, paid to post, High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP), online Forex trading, and so on. Internet is a vast area of earning opportunities for those who are seeking for additional earnings, you might have even found some young people who retired from their offline jobs, in order to stay focused on their online earnings.

So I believe some of us, you and I, still have our offline job, whether it is from the company, or informal job, and let’s say it the offline job; and there is something we need to consider when we have put our attention to these areas of online earning versus the offline one. So, here we are talking about standing on two boats at the same time.

I know there are many people who have offline jobs, but still grab the chance of making additional profits from their online experiences. If you happened to visit any forum talking about online money making, something like that, or even forum talking about google adsense or other kind of advertisements for websites, you would find many people among them were still holding their offline jobs. If you have been making friends with some of these people, you would hear the testimonials that either they were trying out the possibilities of online earning, or they were building their ’small kingdom’ of online earning, or they just tried out the chance because they felt they could no longer rely on the offline earning. Some of them have succeeded in the online earning experiences, some others are still trying real hard, and the rests are the new comers.

For most new comers, even few bucks seem like a pile of gold. And I feel the need to alert the new comers:

True, some people really make big bucks, but it is not as easy as you have thought. Everything takes time. You cannot get all things at once.

And don’t forget, there are prices to pay: Your time, your energy, and your mind.

Just think about it. Are you an organized person? If you are not, your life balance is at stake.

I keep reading many complaints on forums that some of their family members started to question their existence in the house. Yes, they are indeed in the house, physically, but their attention is distracted.

  • Some people admitted that they had forgotten to do the houseworks.

  • Some students admitted they lost their focus on the study.

  • Some employees admitted that they had lost their focus on their works for the company.

  • Some others complained that they felt the earning was not worth it, compared to the length of time they had sacrificed for the earning from their daily posts on such “paid to post” forums, or from their daily earning on such “paid to read” or “paid to click” or “paid to …” programs.

  • Some said that they had joined many get paid to programs, but not all of the programs really worked for them. Some of the programs later didn’t pay them (turned out to be scams), some of the programs had very low earning rates compared to the minimum payouts. Some people also said that the referrals didn’t support them, etc.

So, everything goes back to the basic question for each participant: Is it worth it?

You spent 5 till 8 hours per day on Internet to post on forums (let’s say you join 4 forums, that’s the maximum average people can join and stay focused on), other GPT programs (let’s say maximum 20 sites, that’s the perfect maximum someone could handle), and the earning you got for the day were these:

  • around $5 from first forum.
  • one other forum limited you to make maximum 20 posts per day (and you got paid $0.03 per post), you tried to make maximum post numbers, so then let’s assume you made $0.60 from this one per day.
  • another forum claimed you would earn $0.06 per post after you made more than 300 posts, since you haven’t reached the numbers, you got approximately $0.02 per post. Let’s assume you made 30 posts, then it was around $0.60. Okay, perhaps you got real good topics to talk about, make it 50 posts then, $1 for the day.

  • You also joined various PTR / PTC programs, and since you had become the member of almost all PTR / PTC programs scattered around Internet (not to mention the possibilities of getting scammed), mostly you would no longer be able to do the “paid to sign up” part, unless you tried on cheating by creating multiple account on the programs you had joined before, with the risk of getting banned once they found out.
    Let’s say that you did all 20 PTR / PTC programs with various pay rates, you might get approximately 200 clicks per day from all these sites, if all of them gave you 1 cent per click, you got around $2 for that day.
    Let’s say that you were still lucky to get additional $5 (or even $10) from all the sign ups you could make from the sites, since some of you might be International members and usually sign ups were only available for USA, UK, or some certain countries.

  • Some of you invested on HYIP, and got scammed later. Let’s assume that you didn’t join it to make the medium / average calculation.

  • Let’s assume you were not joining any Forex trading, since not all people had the nerve on this one.

  • Let’s say that you didn’t have any earning from your site yet.

So how much you have made for the day? $18? $20? That would be a wow for you must have been lucky enough for making such amount by doing this on your own. How long you have been online for that day? Less than 5 hours? No? If it wasn’t less than 5 hours, then you were just wasting your time for a small buck.

Just forget about your referrals, okay? Not everyone gets good referrals. There are even many participants who don’t have referral at all. We are talking about your own earning, your pure earning.

But how long the times you have spent for the day? The electricity, the Internet usage, your time, your energy, your mind. Was it worth it? Have you still done your offline routines well? Your current study or job? You need to manage your life balance between online versus offline life, or you would only bring trouble upon your own life, especially those of you who already had offline career or you might be some housewives who had to do all the houseworks yourselves.

And later, how long have you waited until they finally paid you? What if some of them later turned out to be scams? Or perhaps, you suddenly got kicked out from the membership and you just didn’t know what kind of term violation you have made. Or, you might have done some mistake accidentally in your participation, and you got infraction. Some certain penalty was really BIG, even would make you end up being suspended and losing the accumulated earning so far.

Unless you had gotten many referrals to boost your earnings up, was it worth it?

Now calculate back all the times and energy you have spent during those days. If you focused on offline earning for such amount of times, how much you should have earned? Which one would have given you better earning? Which one would have given you better sleep? Which one would have given you more time to spend with the family or even for yourself?

Which one would have enabled you to spend less money for the bills?

Which one that still gave you rooms to interact with your neighbors, family, relatives, friends?

Which one still made you feel that you had lived a normal life and full with energy and enthusiasm?

For me, I still believe that 2 till 3 hours per day is the maximum daily limit to spend on Internet. Unless I no longer want to have my current offline job, my resting time, and my offline life.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not money oriented. I also have a hope of making some online earning, but I don’t make my blog for only money. Yes, I put advertisement here, but this is not the main reason of why I finally made this blog. My intention is to provide some tips and sharing about the acts you need to maximize your life. The aim of this blog making includes the benefits for you as the readers, and I as the writer who gets your feedbacks.

I know how it feels like to step on two boats at the same time, and believe me, it is frustrating. And I need to share with you that what works for some people doesn’t always work for the others. So, online earning is good for you if it is worth your time, if it doesn’t, I am not saying that you mustn’t spend your time to try on your online earning experience, but just don’t waste your time too much for something that gives back to you less than you give, your energy, your time, your mind, your efforts. You still have your own way and that doesn’t have to be the same with the other’s way. Just consider all these things for your own sake.

You can’t do everything. You can’t get everything you want either. Hold your greed, hold your impatience towards you earnings. Everything takes time, even a big success starts from a small step. There is no point of joining a lot of this and that, which people claimed giving them a lot, but rather, go to survey all these programs for yourself before you finally join them, read carefully every lenses or guard or watch upon these programs. Find some sites that give you the review upon the programs you consider of. Don’t just start joining them before you are sure that they will be worth for you. And when you start your participation, be wise, don’t just brutally spend your time and efforts, start your earning one step at a time, one day at a time. Remember, you are human that needs rest, sleep, times to interact with the others physically, and you still need the balance for your offline routine, because you exist physically in offline world!

Calculate the time you would have to spend for them, would these things give you better than that one you are working for now? Would these things not isolate you from the others, from your current social networking? Would these things be safe for your current offline schedule and activities?

You judge it. If these things only cause distraction towards your life, your mind and your current work / study, you should have known what you have to do with these things. Don’t just complain it at forum entries, you should make your action.

I wish for your good luck then. And if you care, don’t forget to also spend some times to share your experiences with the others, so they would also learn from your mistakes.

Have a good day, or night.

]]> http://potentialact.com/online-earning-is-it-worth-your-time.htm/feed Customer Protection Measure - The Non Sense of Network Solutions http://potentialact.com/customer-protection-measure-the-non-sense-of-network-solutions.htm http://potentialact.com/customer-protection-measure-the-non-sense-of-network-solutions.htm#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:55:51 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/customer-protection-measure-the-non-sense-of-network-solutions.htm This case is actually well known since January 2008, when everyone just started talking about it everywhere. In the beginning I just let this topic away from my site, for I thought that everybody surely had known about it, but it seems that newcomers would still come and stumble upon similar experience *again*, so I decided to bring this topic up here too.

For the newcomers of domain name registration, maybe some of you have known … but maybe some others of you haven’t known yet. So let’s make sure that all of us know the same information now.

There is a warning for all of you and I to note and to remember: Before you start searching availability of your chosen domain name to be, beware …

Network Solutions has implemented a program that locks users from registering domains with other registrars, they call it: “Customer Protection Measure”.

What the heck is that? How does it work?

The simple logic flow for easy understanding is:

  1. You were searching the availability a domain name from Network Solutions domain searching interface.

  2. You found they said that the domain you searched was available to purchase.

  3. But, you didn’t purchase it right away (because their price was $34.99 and you knew that your registrar-to-be would offer you cheaper price, and even only around $9), and you decided to go to your registrar instead of purchasing it through Network Solution.

  4. So you quickly visited your registrar page to register the domain name …

  5. But you suddenly found out that the domain name was TAKEN and when you entered the domain name into whois query, you found something similar like this:

    Domain Name: *******
    Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
    Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
    Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
    Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
    Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM
    Status: clientHold
    Updated Date: 02-mar-2008
    Creation Date: 02-mar-2008
    Expiration Date: 02-mar-2009

    (Note: ******* is censored, for the sake of the person -since this is a true story- who naively had searched this domain and now the domain was under ‘hostage’ for $34.99 ransom)

  6. You quickly got back at Network Solutions page, checking the domain name again (either by the same searching interface or by using their whois tool), and you found that the domain was still available there! But it was only available to be purchased right there, from the Network Solutions only.

  7. And later you finally realized, there was a small image (almost unnoticed) on the same searching page, when you clicked it, it would bring you to a page explaining about the so-called Customer Protection Measure of Network Solutions, saying something like this:

“Network Solutions may reserve domain names that are searched on our Web site for up to 4 days. During this period, these domain names will only be available to register at networksolutions.com.”

- What is the Customer Protection Measure? (Network Solutions) -

Got the idea yet?

For more clear insight and information about what has been going on with this Non-Sense Protection Measure of Network Solutions, there are some sites that have mentioned all things we should know about this case:

Network Solutions Faces PR Nightmare Over Domain FrontRunning (Domain Name Wire)

Slashdot | NSI Registers Every Domain Checked

Network Solutions steals domain ideas; Confirmed! (by Jay Westerdal)

front-running, kabateck-brown-kellner, netsol, network-solutions » Domain Name News

No matter what some defenders said about the so called Customer Protection Measure, including their response about this case (read Network Solutions responds to Front Running Accusations at domainnews.com), whatever they said, it is clear that what they implement is no difference with their own definition of Front Running:

Front Running is when an individual registers domains within minutes or hours after someone else has conducted a domain name search on a registrar’s site, performed a WHOIS query or typed a domain in the browser to see if there is an active Web site. Front Runners may get access to these searches through Internet Service Providers, Spyware, or registries. Front Running allows these individuals to attempt to make money from the domain through pay-per-click ads or by re-selling the domain in the aftermarket at a marked up price.

- What is Front Running? (Network Solutions) -

Well, Network Solutions, just stop this Non-Sense. What you have been doing and are still doing has no difference at all. You lock the domain name right away after someone searched for it from your searching tool. You may say you are not making money from the domain through pay-per-click ads; okay, but you are displaying your own ads saying that this domain is available to purchase from your site, and by the way, are you saying that you are not displaying your own ads to be clicked? And you say that you are not monetizing the domain, but the person himself / herself is no longer able to purchase the domain from anywhere else except your site (note: before you start saying that it is only for up to 4 days, read on till the end of this article!). In fact, before the person made the searching in your searching interface, the domain was available to purchase from ANY registrar (and for the person’s registrar, it would only be around $9), but then you grabbed it, and froze it so the person would only be able to register it from your site at $34.99.

So, do you still remember your definition about Front Running? I will suggest you to re-read your own site then, Network Solutions.

And for the newcomers of domain registration world, welcome to the Non-Sense of Network Solutions awareness. I would like to advise you to be careful on using domain availability searching tool anywhere, do your prior research towards the whole site to make sure they don’t freeze your chosen domain after you have used their searching / whois tool to check the availability. Especially this tool of Network Solutions. If you don’t plan to purchase a domain name from any registrar (but from another one), don’t toy with the first one’s searching / whois tool. But if you insist on trying it, then try it at your own risk.

They may say: “A customer may phone Network Solutions customer support and request the domain name be released before the end of the reserve period.” But for International registrant candidates, that was just a non-sense to make an international call for just requesting the release of the ‘hostage’ since they were sure that they would never purchase the domain from this site, concerning the high paying difference of the price between $34.99 (Network Solutions) and $9 (their own registrar). Not to mention that the prices of ‘do-it-yourself’ and ‘do-it-for-me’ on the same searching page were misleading the people about the real price for purchasing the domain, and then they would end their search to sudden awareness that the real price for the domain name was $34.99. Now, tell me, how many people would still be ‘faithful’ to purchase when they found out the price?

And not to mention that third parties can now monitor lookups on NSI via the daily additions and deletions from the NSI nameserver by more malicious 3rd parties. So, if you don’t get it in 4 days, a squatter will notice the shown interest and know to register it themselves.

So, take heed to the warning again:

If you are not planning to register any domain name through Network Solutions (or any other registrar), never use their domain searching tools, do not ever toy with their domain searching tools, and I would not recommend you to use even their whois tool either.
However, if you have decided to purchase any domain name, make sure first about which registrar service you would use for the registration, and search the availability of your chosen domain name only from the chosen registrar, and don’t toy with other registrar’s tools (like this Network Solutions has).

Last Note:

Personally I don’t think that Network Solutions is the only one that implements this so called ‘Customer Protection Measure’. However, since the world wide web knows Network Solutions cases and the lawsuits against them, and how that they are still doing the same Non-Sense towards a naive newcomer (just re-read the point #5 above, it still happened again dated March 2, 2008), I decided to put this post up, so the others will also take note and then be careful next time.

Enough said for today.

]]> http://potentialact.com/customer-protection-measure-the-non-sense-of-network-solutions.htm/feed A Letter to Young Participants of Online Earning Fields … http://potentialact.com/a-letter-to-young-participants-of-online-earning-fields.htm http://potentialact.com/a-letter-to-young-participants-of-online-earning-fields.htm#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:43:47 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/a-letter-to-online-earning-young-participants.htm Recently, a friend has challenged me: “If you had become the parent (either Mom or Dad) of someone who just entered his / her path to online earning programs … what would you say to him / her?”

Wow … what a challenge. I haven’t entered the phase of parenting life, so this one hit me. However, I accepted the challenge, and the letter below is my answer to his challenge.

So … this is a letter I would write if I already had white hair today, and had also fathered or mothered a ‘young’ son / daughter who had just entered the world of online earning programs …

– ( @ ) –

Dear Child,

How are you? Well, it has been a long time since the first time I saw you coming into this world, with your very first breath and loud crying. I still remember the day you were born, and back then I wondered about your future, I didn’t have any idea how you would grow up one day.

Today, I also wonder how the times have passed so fast. Back then I had watched you make your first crawl as a baby and then your first step when you started to walk, and today there you are … standing on your own feet, and you are doing your own … running, rushing for all things you want to do.

Well, I know your interest in earning money has also grown too. I don’t know if this is already the time for you to do this, but I have to admit that one day you can no longer count on us, your parents, to afford your living. And as far as I know, you have been doing some researching about any opportunity to make your own money. And, since the Internet has become worldwide and has also provided this possibility online, you have also started digging your own way to survive in this money making field.

Probably you have been joining any online affiliates and establishing your own websites or blogs for making some profits from them, or probably you have participation in any GPT (”Get Paid To”) programs, PTR, PTC, and PTS, PTP or something else, since these are the most popular ones. I just keep wondering, my Child … have you ever consulted somebody about these things? Do you have any good mentor, Child? I keep hoping that you really do.

All right, we are older than you; some children may address us as old folks, the outdated, some would say that we know less about Internet than you do. But, Child, the world of Internet is the world of the same people; the difference is that you are not seeing them face to face like we always do in the offline areas. However, there are still real people behind the Internet. And know this, my Child, as the offline world has good and bad people, the online world of Internet does have both of them too. So I believe that the same rules apply to both of the world of Internet and the offline world I have known so far.

And I need to warn you, be careful in your online journey, because you don’t even see those people’s faces, you don’t meet them face to face, and you might not even know how they look like. Even in the offline world, when you see a person’s face, you can’t even tell whether this is an honest person or not. So how would you be able to tell the difference in the online world, in which you see no real face at all? How would you tell whether the photos displayed on some websites were their real pictures or not? How would you be able to know whether they provided their real contact addresses or phones? How would you know that you are in secure areas of earning? Since you might know the Internet better than we old folks do, can you tell me how you would do that?

Anyway, this is the globalization era, so I don’t think I can limit your exploration because that will mean that I have hindered you, that I don’t let you grow up, that I don’t want you to improve and to do things on your own. So, explore them then, but please … be careful and be wise in your journey, no matter how young you are, there are those who just won’t care to help you at all, but maybe the good people will also help you in the World Wide Web as you learn and approach them for any advice that we can’t give to you. However, an important alert to you, Child, you might get deceived by scams, since we cannot tell which ones will really help you or pay you, and which ones will not. You might even face some wolves in disguise as trusted websites / emails; I think you know the word phishing better than I do? So, be careful. Stay alert, Child.

This is your own area of exploration and since you will want to do it your own way, you will have to make a lot of careful steps and to figure them out by yourself. Both of us, your parents, can only watch from the backstage as we wish for the best of your part. However, when you want to go back to ask our opinion or advice, we will be glad to give you some. But in the end, the decision is still yours.

Just one thing I would like to request from you, Child. I hope you would do your earning part honestly. It is a virtual world, truly; still we are facing the real people behind the masks of the web pages. I believe any crimes will still get caught even if the person hides behind a false identity. I wish you will not become such a person at all, because all of us will still get into the trouble when you become such a person. You have to promise me to stay in ‘clean’ area, Child, okay?

I would also like to see you give any good contribution to other people as well, like we usually do to our neighborhood or our own family offline. Since you are participating in the world of online earning programs, maybe you will be able to give some feedbacks to the newcomers that may enter the same realm of online earning programs after you did.

If you have experienced some scams or phishings, then tell those who have not been through any similar experiences, so they will not taste the same sorrow you have ever tasted. If you have been through various good and bad experiences, then share your tips and advices with the others based on your experiences in this money making field. I hope you won’t become too selfish by keeping these good things for your own; this is still a society where you have to give some good contribution back to the others as well.

You might be questioning me right now, but I hope someday you will understand what I mean. The real success is not based on how much money you have earned, my Child, success is about life, it is about how many people have also gotten the benefits and become as successful as you are, because you have shared what you know for the good sake of the others.

And then, both of us, your parents will not regret this day, the day when I say, “Go, Child, explore it and find the way that works for you.”

All we wish is that you will become successful more than all of us have ever dared to dream … and for the closing of this letter, there is one more request from us:

Please remember to keep the balance in your life by not forgetting your offline routines. Okay, Child?

Thanks for reading my letter. Have a good day … or night.

]]> http://potentialact.com/a-letter-to-young-participants-of-online-earning-fields.htm/feed An Open Letter to Someone Using x4d.com to Scam … http://potentialact.com/an-open-letter-to-someone-using-x4dcom-to-scam.htm http://potentialact.com/an-open-letter-to-someone-using-x4dcom-to-scam.htm#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:49:27 +0000 Byeol http://potentialact.com/an-open-letter-to-someone-using-x4dcom-to-scam.htm Dear Someone who sent me another “Congratulations! You won $400” phishing email … again.

You really didn’t learn from your mistake. :( You know, most of people will not fall into the same trap again. You only did the same craps you had done back then. I think you haven’t known how many people have learned about your traps, everywhere, they even posted on forums, and you might have not even checked … at least this discussion.

I have no other choice but only to display YOUR Internet Header when you sent the bulk email to me (and my email address wasn’t even displayed at the To column), and very possible to other people as well. I have forwarded the whole email you sent to the anti phishing site and reported you.

And Dear People … take a look at the Internet Header of the phishing mail sender (note: I have to censor few things to ********** characters, since you won’t need that):

Counterfeit no-minimum.com mail header:

Delivered-To: *********
Received: by ********* with SMTP id *********;
Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:02:59 -0800 (PST)
Received: by ********* with SMTP id *********;
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:02:58 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <nobody@beta.hostigation.com>
Received: from beta.hostigation.com (beta.hostigation.com [216.198.221.163])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id *********;
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:02:58 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of nobody@beta.hostigation.com designates 216.198.221.163 as permitted sender) client-ip=216.198.221.163;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of nobody@beta.hostigation.com designates 216.198.221.163 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nobody@beta.hostigation.com
Received: from nobody by beta.hostigation.com with local (Exim 4.68)
(envelope-from <nobody@beta.hostigation.com>)
id 1JNlal-0002cI-Sg; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:01:47 -0500
To: “winners@no-minimum.com” <winners@no-minimum-prizes.com>
Subject: YOU WON $400!
From: “No-Minimum.com” <admin@no-minimum.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=”—-=_NextPart_000_000C_01C844A9.D359AB10″
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: High
Message-Id: <5J283T2J38TJ23J2@no-minimum.com>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
X-Sender: http://www.no-minimum.com/pages/
X-Originating-Email: rewards@no-minimum.com
X-Originating-IP: [105.69.127.58]
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:01:47 -0500
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beta.hostigation.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - beta.hostigation.com

And for the rest of you who are reading this page right now, if you are one of those receivers of this same sender … report it to anti phishing site as soon as possible.

Now compare that one with the REAL no-minimum.com owner’s Internet Header when he replied my report about the phishing email. I am only displaying the exact line you should notice about the difference:

I made *** characters in respect for the real webmaster’s privacy. Now, take a deep look at the lines below, especially in bold.

REAL no-minimum.com email header:

Return-Path: <webmaster@no-minimum.com>
Received: from ***.lucidityhosting.com (***.lucidityhosting.com [*********])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id *********;
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:49:55 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: ********* is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of webmaster@no-minimum.com) client-ip=*********;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: ********* is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of webmaster@no-minimum.com) smtp.mail=webmaster@no-minimum.com

…

X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ***.lucidityhosting.com
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - no-minimum.com

Dear Readers, got it yet? The phishing mail sender didn’t come from no-minimum.com server which is lucidity hosting. The fake one sent from beta.hostigation.com. There are so many lines you can compare for your own, and I have to inform you that the webmaster’s original location is from different country than the phishing mail sender’s.

So, Dear Scammer who used the x4d.com to try deceiving no-minimum members, even those who had quited from this GPT program also received your phishing mails, even the non-members got your emails too. No wonder if everyone talks about you everywhere. And no wonder that everyone all around are trying to close yours and all that get involved down.

I don’t know how you got our email addresses, and I won’t care. I don’t know what relationship you have with the real no-minimum.com site, and I won’t care.

I hope you will repent as soon as possible, when you still have time to repent from your *sin*. I have to remind you, I haven’t accessed no-minimum site lately and I turned on the “on vacation” date, so it is no way I would have become a “the 1,000,000th visitor” to get this message from the real no-minimum owner. And I always set the message type as “plain text” for no-minimum site. And you suddenly sent me HTML email *again*. Do I need to remind you about how easy I will recognize the real URL you provided in the email attachment?

And not to mention that this is the second time I got the same email claiming that I am “the 1,000,000th visitor” of no-minimum.com, and I wonder if you had ever figured it out before you started using the same tricks again to the same targets again. It won’t work on us. We will ask the REAL webmaster of no-minimum.com about the truth of the “congratulations” things first as soon as we get your phishing mails or any emails claiming that we have won any prize, so we will not fall into your trap.

You had better tried earning money on the right path and in the honest way. There are no-minimum.com members who have reported you and your site and all reports and complaints are filed with the FBI. I would rather advise you to read the page where the members talked about you again.

By the way, I don’t have any connection with the real no-minimum.com, I’m just one of the members, who are pissed off because of getting spammed by you who used this cheap trick again. If you have something against the real no-minimum.com site, then finish it between you two, don’t use us the members to achieve whatever your goal is.

This is my first and last open letter to you, Dear Someone using x4d.com to scam people. I have exposed you. You have been warned.

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