Typical CPA endgame?

jriz

jriz

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A lot of CPA offers are paying a few cents to a few dollars for the names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses of people who think they’re going to win a free iPhone or $100 worth of groceries.

The common denominator here seems to be people's gullibility and carelessness with their personal information.

I’m usually so preoccupied with finding the best paying offers and trying not to get conned myself that I never fully consider what waits at the end of the pipeline for these people.

What’s the final scam here?
 
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If you feel guilt about CPA than go with CPI Simple,
CPI Is not a scam its a spam , no one get hurts, only app installs and some min:)
 
CPA is not a scam. It's basically targeted lead collecting. The user fills tons of fields with their info (what they like, what their household is like etc) and then the leads are sold to other advertisers who can email them more targeted offers.

It might be spammy as these people usually don't want to get tons of emails but it's not scamming.
 
MgicalaEarner said:
If you feel guilt about CPA than go with CPI Simple,
CPI Is not a scam its a spam , no one get hurts, only app installs and some min:)
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Or, just cut out the middleman by ditching the CPA network and running these scams, or a version thereof, ourselves.
 
jriz said:
A lot of CPA offers are paying a few cents to a few dollars for the names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses of people who think they’re going to win a free iPhone or $100 worth of groceries.

The common denominator here seems to be people's gullibility and carelessness with their personal information.

I’m usually so preoccupied with finding the best paying offers and trying not to get conned myself that I never fully consider what waits at the end of the pipeline for these people.

What’s the final scam here?
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Sign up for a soi offer with a dummy email. You'll get shit tons of ads, first kinda relevant ones, then they sell your email, and soon you'll get penis enlargement pill emails.
 
karupoiss said:
CPA is not a scam. It's basically targeted lead collecting. The user fills tons of fields with their info (what they like, what their household is like etc) and then the leads are sold to other advertisers who can email them more targeted offers.

It might be spammy as these people usually don't want to get tons of emails but it's not scamming.
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I can understand that, but can we agree here that the main entry point is gullibility?

Who in their right mind believes they’re going to win a free phone from an online entity they’ve had no prior contact with?

And as a lead collector, how does it benefit me to have the contact information of someone that stupid...unless I’m planning to run a greater scam on them in the future?
 
wonder still people are thinking for win a free iPhone!!! and provide real information :rolleyes:
 
thescrrr said:
Sign up for a soi offer with a dummy email. You'll get shit tons of ads, first kinda relevant ones, then they sell your email, and soon you'll get penis enlargement pill emails.
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Man, I started getting this stuff just after signing up to CPA networks themselves…not even the offers.
 
I can see how you would think taking advantage of people's gullibility is unethical, but at the end of the day you aren't forcing anybody to enter their information/buy a product. If they genuinely think they're going to win that free iPhone, it should be none of your concern.
 
xShot said:
I can see how you would think taking advantage of people's gullibility is unethical
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That’s not so much my point here. To be honest, I don’t think anyone should be getting into this industry without a certain degree of moral flexibility.

I’m more interested in how leads collected from these people are being used to ultimately generate income for CPA companies and their partners.

If they’re willing to pay us a dollar for the collected personal information of some overly-credulous random internet person, how much is that information really worth to them?
 
jriz said:
A lot of CPA offers are paying a few cents to a few dollars for the names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses of people who think they’re going to win a free iPhone or $100 worth of groceries.

The common denominator here seems to be people's gullibility and carelessness with their personal information.

I’m usually so preoccupied with finding the best paying offers and trying not to get conned myself that I never fully consider what waits at the end of the pipeline for these people.

What’s the final scam here?
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upsales in short, the long is broken down below

ive been doing cpa for 10 years and it's been my bread and butter.

theyre trying to essentially get them to sign up for anything they can get them to put their cc info for and keep selling and selling to them.

they're basically looking for whales that one person they can keep on the hook for 100s if not thousands of dollars. thats typical usa traffic.

then theres mobile downloads to bump themselves up the play/apple store and jump start an app.

then theres pin subs which is outlawed in the usa. using snaky fine print to get them to agree to a recurring monthy thing paid by their phone bill which as im told is very hard to stop.
 
Honest said:
upsales in short, the long is broken down below

ive been doing cpa for 10 years and it's been my bread and butter.

theyre trying to essentially get them to sign up for anything they can get them to put their cc info for and keep selling and selling to them.

they're basically looking for whales that one person they can keep on the hook for 100s if not thousands of dollars. thats typical usa traffic.

then theres mobile downloads to bump themselves up the play/apple store and jump start an app.

then theres pin subs which is outlawed in the usa. using snaky fine print to get them to agree to a recurring monthy thing paid by their phone bill which as im told is very hard to stop.
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So, it’s really just collecting personal information and throwing offer after offer at people with the hope of hooking a few into costly recurring subscriptions?

I’m sure that personal data gets sold, recycled, and passed around quite a bit too.

Good to know though. Thank you for Sharing this.

I honestly expected something a lot more nefarious like phone scams to defraud grannies out of their pensions or selling CC info to illegal karding rings.
 
There is no scam. The person filling the survey(s) as part of a content locker or whatever, willingly fills & submits the survey(s) and it is always clearly mentioned that the person filling the survey(s) is hence subscribing to receive marketing & promotional materials through email(s). And hence the emails are used in various sales funnels as consented to by the person at time of filling the survey(s). No scam, it is all 100% legit.
 
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