make $ blogging about sports?

[orangecat1]

looks like I almost fell for a scam involving blogging.

I replied to a Craigslist part-time ad that I can't find anymore. (I had it yesterday).

I received this email:

Sports and Movie Review instructions

Hello,and Welcome to The All Star Bloggers Network.

Thank you for your Inquiry.

Have you ever wondered why some writers and bloggers are rolling in
the dough, but most of us are usually scrambling Just to get the
bills paid.

We make good money writing music, movie, and sports reviews!
Were looking to expand our network and if you interested in joining
please follow the simple instructions below.
It's about time you get paid what your worth!

1. Choose which category you like the best movies, sports, or
music.

2. Click on that link.

3. Choose a video clip to write a review on
(must be 500-1000 words). Write a review on that movie,
or sports team.

4. Submit the review to this email address
[email protected] and don't

forget to leave your contact info.

If you're accepted you will receive a congratulations email and a
phone call.

Disregard this email if you have already made a submission from one
of our main websites.
The Link
Jason
PO Box 27493, Phoenix, az 85061, USA

So, I chose the review of the 'horns Holiday Bowl victory over Cal yesterday, sent in my article. Today, I get a call from a different person, welcoming me, and he told me I need to buy a website for $39.90.

Turns out it's $39.90 per month. They didn't even read my article before offering me the chance to spend the $. Dude claims they have an "affiliate" relationship with dishnetwork, and every time someone would buy dishnetwork service after clicking on the dishnetwork ad on my website, I would get a check for $50 from dishnetwork.

I asked for a phone number to Dishnetwork to verify the "affiliate status", he said they had, he danced a little, told me "that's not how it works", etc. told me to look it up, etc.

I actually did call dishnetwork, just to see: sure enough dishnetwork gave me four names of "partners" Frontier, Windstream, Century Link, and Pace.

Dishnetwork says they have no affiliates.

Company that placed the ad is called Absolute Marketing

 

[georgecostanza]

You should have been able to tell it was a scam when you first read that email. A real company wouldn't allow for so many grammar mistakes, especially one that is based on writing.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

orangecat,
Go for it, man. Grab the brass ring. Then you can come back here and link us to all of your incredibly insightful articles about HS athletic finances and the like.

Page hits galore!

 

[accuratehorn]

There are a lot of phony jobs posted on Craigslist. Half of them are false listings to get people to send their resumes to deceitful employment agencies. That should be illegal somehow, but I suppose it isn't.

 

[Knoxville-Horn]

Yep. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.

A few years ago, I got an e-mail from a guy who had been reading my posts on a soccer forum. He wanted to hire me to attend games and report on them during the action. I was going to get free tickets, money, etc... just for checking in occasionally via my cellphone.

Turns out it was some sort of gambling scam. From what I understand, people around the world would be able to place bets based upon what was happening in real time. If a team scored a goal and I announced it immediately, I think there was a window of a few seconds where people would be able to place a bet on a team before the bookies knew the score had happened because their updates were a tad slower as they were going through official channels. At least I think that's what was going on.