ContactThem Scam

Are you one of those webmasters that received an email from ContactThem saying that they saw your site and want to pay you up to $4800 to place their ads on your website? I received one of those emails for another one of my websites. This is what it said:

Hi,

We’ve seen your website at http://www.trade-pals.com and we love it!

We see that your traffic rank is 101,412
and your link popularity is 602
Also, we see that you are online since January 17, 2005.

With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month to advertise our links on your website.

If you’re interested, read our terms from this page:
http://www.contactthem.com/—–

If you got this email, you’d probably say, “WOW!!! I’m gonna be rich.” But remember this, anything that sounds this easy, sounds too good to be true, is too good to be true.

Making money with content on the internet takes two things: traffic and ads. Nobody will pay you a lot of money for an ad or link (in this case $4800) without the traffic to support it. There’s no value there for advertisers to justify such an expenditure. So, ya, this sounds like a big scam to me.

Sell your online ad inventory through PlaceMyProduct.com so that it goes to the highest bidder and allows you to legitimately maximize your earnings.