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By now, MANY of you have probably heard of how much Government grant offers are killing it like crazy! I've heard reports of crazy high numbers... Such as what the average American earns in a year being earned in a single day using government grant affiliate programs.
I blame the popularity due on the new presidency and the whole talk of the stimulus. When people hear stimulus, they think, "Hey maybe I can get free money!"
Because of these programs popularity and many using the presidents image, the FTC is doing a press release regarding these government grant affiliate programs.
Here is more information about the press release.
This release comes out on the 4th of March and should be quite interesting in what may be a string of Affiliate smack downs from the FTC.
I look forward to seeing what happens...
Great affliate programs. I will join it and try make money from it.
Mate, most affiliates will be done for this, They are stupid people who are trying to make a quick buck. Affiliates should think long term when doing business not short term.
Does the FTC apply to Canadian Affiliate Marketers?
No idea.
Don’t believe so as they are their own governed body.
It’s snake oil salsemen like that who give Affiliate Marketers a bad name.
so, you think it’s a scam to offer this?
I don’t know enough about grant offers. I have not researched them to be able to say.
The value of the grant offers in themselves are one thing but the overuse of fake blogs is what we can blame most of the attention on. Not outing anyones pages but they’re getting really aggressive (and lazy) like geotargeting pages with javascript. My ISP is in the middle of nowhere – 87 people in that town and I know darn well there that person isn’t from there.
I realize most affiliates enjoying the (insert name)bs-story-blog.com are making some coin but you never want to screw with the government… ever. They can find out in seconds if that whois protected blog belongs to a person and verify those testimonials are true.
Kind’ve sucks because there were some legitimate grant pubs who targeted people who could actually apply for and get those grants but just didn’t know if they existed. Reminiscent of affiliate marketing which started as marketing guns for hire and now is a bizopp.
Just goes to show that there are a lot of very opportunist, not particularly moral people out there. It’s exploiting people who only have a dim understanding of the whole Federal Bailout thing (that being; they’ve heard of it). Any site claiming to be distributing “bailout checks” if obviously a scam which will suck in uninformed people… and you’re right, it gives legit affiliate marketers a bad name, as well as grant organizations which help a lot of people and charities.
Very Sad.
Give it a once over. It says it’s going to unveil bogus websites related to the STIMULUS. So that’s the ones with obama and the stimulus cheque.
Yea.
I found your site and post after a specific search while doing research for my new blog. Good SEO work I guess, but it also made you a player in one of my posts.
I got sick of seeing all these scammers trying to piggyback on the US Stimulus package, scammers trying to rip off folks that are already in a lot of trouble. So I started a web site about it.
In case you wonder, you are here: http://www.freegrantkitscams.com/2009/03/selling-grant-scam.html