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Wow shockinly deceptive ad on google adwords

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  • londonTiger
    londonTiger Posts: 4,903 Forumite
  • Comyface
    Comyface Posts: 670 Forumite
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    I think it looks excellent! It's even managed to change the shape of her nose! ;)
    Are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation? :cool:
  • Oh dear - that seals it. Often seen in spam and scams with very poor abuse handling IIRC.
  • goodz
    goodz Posts: 1,038 Forumite
    edited 19 December 2011 at 5:30AM
    Interesting thread OP and other posters, thanks for posting all this. I'm often interested to read about scams and find out more about what's going on.

    That's an interestng couple of pics of the woman. Looks to me that they're both the same photo but the second one has had different cheeks and eyes pasted on and, of course, all the original skin smoothed. Plus it's obvious that the eyes in the second one have got eyeliner which enhances them, so nothing to do with the supposed dog poo face cream.

    So I wonder how many people actually believe that it is the same woman but two different shots, they look so obviously the same shot but the second version so obviously absurdly extremely faked that how come anyone would be fooled. Or are there lots of extremely thick people or people who just don't have normal eye sight and perception, or something.

    Plus the transformation is far too radical, you couldn't possibly get that much difference in two weeks off a cream. So again, are there really any people who would be able to believe such a thing. Well, I suppose there must be, there wouldn't be lots of these ads out everywhere if the con artists weren't making money out of it, hence one has to assume that there must be lots of desperate loony women buying the product.

    And what do you get, what, a bit of industrial chemical waste material in a cheap plastic pot. Or just nothing, they just rip off your cash and don't even bother sending out some dog poo.

    Yes, this kind of madness is a bit interesting, it's such a weird world we live in, full of criminals and fraudsters and evidently lots of mentally ill and !!!!!! and desperate people handing over money to them. Plus total failure of government, police and justice system to ever do anything about the tidal wave of conning and frauding. Yup, this has held my attention for the last five minutes. Cheers again bods.
  • competitionscafe
    competitionscafe Posts: 4,050 Forumite
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    edited 19 December 2011 at 6:21PM
    so, the same search on moneysavingexpert brings up thousands of results on google too

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Amoneysavingexpert.com+flogs

    I dont know why where i post matters !!!! all, the problem i have is that you're a judgemental nosey little twerp, who makes baseless accusations about a site, and then by proxy makes these same accusations on everyone who uses a site.

    Why the !!!! did you just attack me for no reason?

    Come on - now you are being even more disingenuous than you were in your previous post. :) You know full well that most of the posters using the word 'flog' on the wicked fire forum are referring to the fake blogs (now largely superseded by so called 'farticles'/ (fake articles aka fake news sites) used by scammers. While the posts on MSE obviously refer to the more common (UK) use of the term flog as a slang word meaning to sell something.

    As for attacking you - you are the one swearing and using personal insults. I did not "attack you for no reason" - when googling the site mentioned in your original post on here - healthytipsdaily - your post on wickedfire came up on the first page of results. It therefore seemed reasonable to ask why you had posted an identical post twice on two very different forums and what your motivation was for doing so. As well as pointing out that having made 800 posts on the wickedfire forum it was unlikely that you could really be that 'shocked' by the deceptive advertising.

    The accusations against wickedfire posters were not baseless as you can see by the posts from the Google links above. Why are you so defensive of a misogynistic and homophobic forum which mainly appears to deal with the more dubious side of online marketing, where words like gay, faggot and retard are seen as acceptable forms of abuse, where it appears that the way to gain respect of other posters is to post pictures of naked women and where in general the mental age of the posters appears to be that of a 12 year old boy?

    I never said that everyone who uses the site was the same but people are judged by the company they keep are they not?

    Call me what you will and swear at me if it makes you feel better, but surely if your original motive in posting here was to expose a scam then your anger should be directed at the real villains - the scammers/deceptive advertisers?

    Ironically while you defend wickedfire your post on there has led to other posters calling for you to be banned for "outing" /revealing the fake news websites url! (I assume in case it belongs to a poster there perhaps or because perhaps in the strange and twisted ethics of some of the posters there it is seen as unethical to expose it?). Kind of destroys your argument that deceptive/fraudulent advertising methods are not discussed in the wickedfire forum, doesn't it?
    "The happiest of people don't necessarily have the
    best of everything; they just make the best
    of everything that comes along their way."
    -- Author Unknown --
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