Another Ringtone Scam - Someone Blog This

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Ok in Canada the only companies that can put a ringtone charge on your cell phone bill are the carriers so there are no services available like dada, rockingringer, flycell etc. The only shit you can do is send a sms text message so there are companies out there that sell horoscopes or jokes.

Check out what these guys are doing on google.ca...to see this you MUST go from a Canadian IP.

1) Search Google.ca for "Ringtones"

Scam Result
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-0]Ringtones[/SIZE]
Download 1000s of Ringtones.
All Carriers - Get it Now!
NonStopRingtones.com[/SIZE]

Clicking on the ad from Canada brings you here: Complimentary Ringtone (or Realtones, Mono Ringtones, Poly Ringtones, Wallpapers, Java Games, Screensavers) with Paid Subscription
The offer is for a horoscope.

They are hoping the users doesn't realize the offer is actually for daily horoscope and goes through with the deal...In the end getting no ringtone.

Jon Huge Link Bait Potential Here ;)!

2) Search google.ca for "50 Cent Ringtones"
Scam Result
[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-0]50 Cent Ringtones[/SIZE]
Download Ringtones to Phone.
100% Complimentary!
NonStopRingtones.com

[/SIZE]Clicking on the ad from Canada brings you here:
Complimentary Ringtone (or Realtones, Mono Ringtones, Poly Ringtones, Wallpapers, Java Games, Screensavers) with Paid Subscription

[SIZE=-1]There were some more up there this morning offering Jokes disguised as ringtones but it is down now or I can no longer find it.

Sniper
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This isnt a scam. They are being redirected based on the IP to an offer canadians can accept which is text services. It would be a scam if they marketed it as a ringtone with a ringtone landing page, but sent them the horoscope offer. However this is not the case here.

Misleading? You could argue that it is slightly misleading, however you are being redirected to an offer that you can actually accept. Scam? Absolutely not.

If someone cannot tell the difference between RINGTONES and HOROSCOPES than that is not the responsiblity of the advertiser. Were not talking about reading T&C's here, this is very obvious stuff.

Again, I say this in almost every thread, please do some research before you come out making accusations about companies in the mobile industry.

Eduardo.
 
I did my research, look at the landing page, they are advertising Canadian Carriers!! They are saying if you are a Canadian and Use the carriers listed that you can get ringtones using their service! You cannot!

Before you accuse someone of being wrong maybe you should do your research!

This is a total scam!

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Not sure if I'd call it a scam, misleading ad certainly. When I search, I see the first two in the blue spot (hey, I thought they were supposed to be manually approved!) but say "Get 1000s of ringtones complimentary" in the ad, but when you click on the ad, the landing page says in huge text "Get Super-Funny Jokes", and the Terms paragraph below that talks about Jokes, however, there is a bunch of spammy "What is ringtone" text underneath that, presumably to trick the quality score bot.

If you want to know what's really bad though, it's the fact that they're charging $1 a DAY to get a funny joke to your phone.

Edit - ok, the first two I checked were as above, with adwords promising ringtones but the landing page saying Jokes. The third one actually had a landing page promising ringtones, with the typical "select your carrier", and only after you select the carrier it's got a horoscope page. So yeah, that's pretty dirty...

I'll blog about it, but my blog is pretty unknown, and only has about 5 readers :)
 
sniperseo,

Please visit any Azoogle offer from an international IP and see what you get. Regardless of what offer you clicked on, youll get sent to a email submit. Its called geo-targetting, you send US traffic to -> ringtone offer, CA traffic to -> text services offer, good INTL traffic to -> email submit, bad INTL traffic to - this offer is not available where you are located.
 
Wow thanks WAZ at least you took sometime to do some research before coming on here and telling me I was wrong.

Maybe I didn't explain it well enough but if someone doesn't understand what these guys are doing then they should find a new job outside of anything that has to do with making money online.

I don't care that these guys are doing this, just wanted to point it out. These are the type of people who make money online! Its sad but true!

Again, look at the landing page...its promoting Canadian Carriers. There is not one affilate service out there that allows a Canadian to be billed on a phone bill directly for a ringtone...pay by credit card yes but not on a phone bill.

The telecom industry is tightly controlled finally something controlled less in the US then Canada ;).
 
Eduardo, thanks I know how IP redirects work on offers etc but this in not the case here. Do some more investigation please.
 
Its not so much that its tightly controlled in Canada. Its that the Canadian carriers require premium sms messages to be billed daily to the subscriber, instead of monthly, which results in a very high churn rate.

Eduardo.
 
The telecom industry has massive restrictions on it. Anyways thats not the point of what I was trying to get across here.

I was simply trying to give a possible example of why Jon had a knock on his door from the FBI. I know Shoemoney had write up about it the other day and it made the first page of DIGG. Obviously its a hot topic, just throwin something else out there as an example of why there are investigations going on.

Just trying to post something to possibly get that hamster in our brains going.

Sniper
 
I'm surprised these guys aren't outed by google for non-relevent/misleading ad text. Oh, wait, what am I saying, it's only the guys trying to play by the book that are given a hard time...
 
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