Juice Boost Scam Keeps Growing And Growing...
from the proof-please? dept
A couple weeks ago we had the story about the not really free, not really broadband, free broadband scam from a company named Juice Boost. Broadband Reports has an update today about how the scam/joke/pyramid scheme/something is taking on an incredible life of its own. The scam, of course, involves some sort of non-existent accelerator software and claims that even the most non-tech-savvy individual should realize are completely made up (free broadband connections over telephone lines and a regular modem that never go down and they'll pay you if you receive a spam message or if the connection drops among other, equally ridiculous claims). Looking for any kind of details on the company turn up nothing but more affiliates (some of whom have even sent out press releases or promises of bars of silver if you sign up). The problem, of course, is that they're promising affiliates lots of cash for signing up more people (limited to the first... oh, 80 million) so the affiliate spammers are coming out of the woodwork taking the ridiculous promises of Juice and "boosting" them even higher. Hopefully, this is all just a demonstration of how ridiculous most affiliate programs are, but that seems unlikely.
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WTF?
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Maybe we need to get the government to add a new class to the curriculum in grade schools - right after they teach kids that "stealing" copyrighted materials is wrong, they can teach kids that giving your money/info to complete strangers is even more wrong...
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I'm figuring that estimate has been adjusted for internet time (i.e: nano-second).
Oh...if only I could entice them to see the "egress", then the net would be a quieter, happier place.
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Juiceboosted
Another scam thread other than that mentioned above can be found at http://www.scam.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Cheers.
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