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these are pretty much illegal. Look what happened to COPEAC and others...

Lots of people made hundreds of thousands of dollars off these sites. They used to be all over big sites like weather.com and others. Some even became millionaires. Fake news sites weren't a small thing by any means, but the gold rush is over unless you want to get sued by the FTC.

At the OP

There were even more flashed out fake news sites back in the day. This method is from like 2008.
 
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^ what he said. OP your pretty late to the party, but then again depending how black hat you are you can still get away with this stuff. A lot of CPA networks don't like this but you will still find a few who don't have a problem with you using it (as long as the advertiser doesn't complain).

The real problem is finding ad networks that let you run them. You can just use redirect scripts to hide them, but this is an outdated method. Still money to be made with it, but if you get caught you are going to be burning down a lot of bridges to make that money. Oh and the FTC is always looking out for these.

2007-08... man there were some creative mofo's back then. All kinds of different killer LP's. You won't see that kind of creativity very often nowadays. Most of those guys made the big bucks and got the F out.
 
These have been around for a while, but nobody uses them anymore to stay clear of any FTC suits. They are doing fake magazine type sites now.
 
these sites are advertised within the job search banks online like your local job search I had my Aunt almost sign up for this it is geared for women,
 
Really had to laugh. I live in Leuven, Belgium and the the title said "Single mom fro Leuven!!!! She had a name of Amy Livingston. That sounds really Flemish. Also weather forcast was for New York. What a scam:(
 
Wahhhh That should be teh brain..... Why dint i think of such things before.. lol...
 
the location in the article changes according to your IP.
 
I like how when I clicked politics in the nav bar I went through about 3 redirects and ended up at a sales page. That's really what I expected to get from a professional site with a top level nav link for "politics".

Also, whenever I try to leave a page and the javascript alert stops to ask if I'm really sure I want to leave it makes the scam that much clearer in my mind. I've never seen a single professional sales site ask if I wanted to leave. Does anyone have stats on how many people try to leave the page, see the alert, then think "Oh I really didn't mean to leave. It seems so legit now" and then buy the product
 
fake news sites pushing cpa offers are quite common. (or rather they were, before the ftc started cracking down on fake affiliate testimonials a few months ago)

they all seem to follow a similar template to this one.

some dead giveaways:

news station you've never heard of. domain name is easily created by picking a random number.

source code reveals a geolocation script
Code: 
<p>Amy Livingston of <script src="[URL]http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js[/URL]"></script>

multiple links to cpa offer page. in fact, the entire news site is just 1 page. all of the tabs at the top redirect to the cpa offer.

ridiculous fake comments at the bottom

the biggest giveaway of all though is this chick:
JBnRR

for some reason she's the default reporter used by around 80% of fake news sites out there. no idea why. maybe at some point someone conducted a series of split tests and found that she converted 15% better than any other reporter out there. who knows :P

wacky industry we work in :)
 
What's new about that particular website????? That is definitely not my best IM site ever seen.
 
I've never seen those kinds of sites before, but I can totally see the idea behind it. Not tempted to make one though :)
 
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