The difference between promotion and reality gets very good shown at the page of a scammer. In this case the page cashsurfingnetwork.com from Eric Goettman is a very good example for misleading advertisements. The lie of the advertisement can get easily identified. The promotion at http://cashsurfingnetwork.com/splashpage.php?splashid=9 shows us the misleading information that you get $12 signup bonus:

That the above promotion is a big lie gets already shown in their own explanations. Cashsurfingnetwork is "40,000 members strong" and declares that "our companies have paid out $ 20,180 in commissions and prices". I think everybody can make a mental calculation that 40,000 members who got $12 is making a sum of $480,000 instead of $20,180. $20,180 divided in 40,000 members makes around $0.50 for each member.

The site cashsurfingnetwork.com got registered on May 17, 2013 - 2 years and 213 days ago. The site is in sum running already 943 days. All the members did not sign up yesterday. If the promise of "guaranteed $1.00 a day" would be true and only 33% of their members would be active then they would have paid until now more than $10 million instead of the promoted $20,180 (40,000 members * 33% * 943 days * $1 = $12,447,600)!

In U.S. is the Federal Trade Commission responsible for prosecuting misleading promotion. At the FTC site "Truth in Advertising" we find the explanation of the law in the U.S.:

When consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, radio or television, or anywhere else, federal law says that ad must be truthful, not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence. The Federal Trade Commission enforces these truth-in-advertising laws, and it applies the same standards no matter where an ad appears – in newspapers and magazines, online, in the mail, or on billboards or buses. The FTC looks especially closely at advertising claims that can affect consumers’ health or their pocketbooks – claims about food, over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, alcohol, and tobacco and on conduct related to high-tech products and the Internet. The FTC also monitors and writes reports about ad industry practices regarding the marketing of alcohol and tobacco.

When the FTC finds a case of fraud perpetrated on consumers, the agency files actions in federal district court for immediate and permanent orders to stop scams; prevent fraudsters from perpetrating scams in the future; freeze their assets; and get compensation for victims.

In Europe is it law that each promotion needs to get fulfilled. The consumer is able to bring companies with misleading promotion in front of law court to get the promises done in the advertising.

If you sign up at cashsufingnetwork.com you'll not get the $12 promised at their promotion. You'll get nothing and for this reason you are already allowed to call Eric Goettman to be a scammer and fraudster, because he lies already at his splash page. After signing up you'll find a few steps, which you have to fulfill to get in sum $12. You have to sign up and surfing at six other sites. Each of these sites should pay $2:

This procedure is not stated in the promotion from cashsurfingnetwork.com and for this has this procedure nothing to do with the promotion. Anyway, even if you are signing up at the six other sites you'll not get the $12.

If you like to sign up at www.tophits4u.com you'll get warned from Adguard that the site is a well-known phishing site. Normal users should not follow the link:

Anyway, I know what I'm doing and how to protect myself and signed up there too. Each of the six sites likes to pull a lot of your hard earned money out of your pocket during the signing up process. During the "one-click" sign-up process you have to click away at least three offers from each site. The one click sign up process is for this reason a big lie too. The only one which likes to get rich quick and can get rich if he finds enough stupid ones, which believing his offers, is Eric Goettman - the owner of the site cashsurfingnetwork.com. I'm not belonging to the stupid ones, which are paying for promises. I signed up at all the sites as a free member, because nobody can sell money without some earnings.

The owners of the sites are:

• tophits4u.com
  The owner of the website is using a service to hide their identity
  
  
• powercashstream.com
  Eric Goettman
  5042 Wilshire Blvd,, Los Angeles, CA-90036
  +1.8008150181, eric@goettman.com
  
  
• lobbyhits.com
  Edward Goettman
  7597 Melrose St, Buena Park, CA-90621
  Phone: +1.7142311641, edward@goettman.com
  
  
• legacyhits.com
  Marcus Wahl
  6700 s 91st, Lincoln, Nebrasca, 68526
  (402) 770-0687, mcwahl1@yahoo.com
  
  
• socialadsurf.com
  Marcus Wahl
  6700 s 91st, Lincoln, Nebrasca, 68526
  (402) 770-0687, mcwahl1@yahoo.com
  
  
• ninjasurf.net
  The owner of the website is using a service to hide their identity

My dashboard after signing up for all the 6 sites:

After signing up and surfing the pages i only received in sum $ 0.51 to my account. The promised $12 of the promotion are still missing:

A screenshot of the paid to click offer from cashsurfingnetwork.com shows that you can earn only $0.01. All other PTC (Paid To Click) networks are at least offering $0.05 for their free members:

The domain registration data from cashsurfingnetwork.com:

Domain Name: cashsurfingnetwork.com
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.1and1.com
Registrar URL: http://1and1.com
Updated Date: 2015-08-07T20:41:16.000Z
Creation Date: 2013-05-17T16:04:27.000Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-05-17T16:04:27.000Z
Registrar: 1&1 Internet AG
Registrar IANA ID: 83
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@1and1.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8774612631
Reseller:
Domain Status: ok https://www.icann.org/epp#ok
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Eric Goettman
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 5042 Wilshire Blvd
Registrant City: Los Angeles
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 90036
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8008150181
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: eric@goettman.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Eric Goettman
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: 5042 Wilshire Blvd
Admin City: Los Angeles
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 90036
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.8008150181
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: eric@goettman.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Hostmaster ONEANDONE
Tech Organization: 1&1 Internet Inc.
Tech Street: 701 Lee Rd.
Tech Street: Suite 300
Tech City: Chesterbrook
Tech State/Province: PA
Tech Postal Code: 19087
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.8774612631
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +1.6105601501
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: hostmaster@1and1.com
Nameserver: ns.liquidweb.com
Nameserver: ns1.liquidweb.com
DNSSEC: Unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-12-17T23:50:09Z <<<

It is nice from Eric Goettman to provide in his domain registration data one more domain, which is even carrying his family name. It is interesting what is written in the registration record from the domain goettman.com:

Domain Name: goettman.com
Registry Domain ID: 95339871_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.1and1.com
Registrar URL: http://1and1.com
Updated Date: 2011-08-23T00:56:11.000Z
Creation Date: 2003-02-27T21:50:49.000Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-02-27T21:50:49.000Z
Registrar: 1&1 Internet AG
Registrar IANA ID: 83
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@1and1.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8774612631
Reseller:
Domain Status: ok https://www.icann.org/epp#ok
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Eric Goettman
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 5042 Wilshire Blvd
Registrant City: Los Angeles
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 90036
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8008150181
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: eric@goettman.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Eric Goettman
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: 5042 Wilshire Blvd
Admin City: Los Angeles
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 90036
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.8008150181
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: eric@goettman.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Hostmaster ONEANDONE
Tech Organization: 1&1 Internet Inc.
Tech Street: 701 Lee Rd.
Tech Street: Suite 300
Tech City: Chesterbrook
Tech State/Province: PA
Tech Postal Code: 19087
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.8774612631
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +1.6105601501
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: hostmaster@1and1.com
Nameserver: ns51.1and1.com
Nameserver: ns52.1and1.com
DNSSEC: Unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-12-17T23:55:49Z <<<

We found the same Eric Goettman with the same address data and phone number.

I cannot say if Eric Goettman and Edward Goettman are brothers or the same person. An Eric Goettman, however you write the name, does not get found in the social networks.

The only one, which gets found with a connection to cashsurfingnetwork.com, is at LinkedIn a person with the German sounding name Marcus Wahl. He calls himself to be a "Co Owner at Cashsurfingnetwork.com" and provides in his profile that he is from Lincoln, Nebraska, US. To his LinkedIn profile are connected 68 contacts. That is for me a very small number of contacts for running multiple networks like rapidfireads.com, cashsurfingnetwork.com, legacyteamcoop.com and legacyhits.com.

For the reason of their lies in their advertisements and their business methods are all involved people from cashsurfingnetworks for me not trustful business partners. A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. The first lies are getting found already in their advertisements.

Update May 4, 2016: If you follow up the discussion in the comments section then you'll find out that Eric Goettman pays the "FREE $12 SIGNUP BONUS" more or less to himself. This fact is now even declared at the splash page with the words "*2.00 is placed into each of the six traffic exchanges free". You can be sure that you need to upgrade your membership on each of the sites to get the $2.00 and the membership fee will be much higher than the "FREE" $2.00 because nobody can payout more than he is earning. This fact has not been written anywhere at the time I have signed up at CashSurfingNetwork.com and it has not been written in any email after signing up:

From: CashSurfingNetwork - Eric Goettman & Legacy Team <admin@cashsurfingnetwork.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:11 PM
Subject: Your Free $12 Signup Bonus is Waiting! [Cash Surfing Network]
To: rudolffaix@gmail.com

Login to CSN Welcome Aboard! CSN the First Questions You Might Have: 1. How to Surf and Find Your Affiliate Id: http://www.screencast.com/t/EBbxWvQIBmQJ 2. How do I earn with CSN: http://legacyhits.com/images/15minutes.png 3. Promoting CSN for Money and Growing Your Business: Login First: http://cashsurfingnetwork.com/login.php Then Click Here: http://cashsurfingnetwork.com/members.php?mf=xptr The cash train is just getting started. On behalf of the member that sent you here, the Cash Surfing Network Team would like to welcome you. Our team is made up of Eric Goettman, the smart programmer, and the promotional sales side of Marcus Wahl (the wild video guy), Ken Locatelli, Rodney Hage, and the member that brought you here. We saw the need to help internet people like yourself to earn money in traffic exchanges and related marketing. When the failure rate for people entering this market is 97% or higher we knew that our service was in need. Your in good hands, the Cash Surfing Network has its foundation on a three year+ old company. You got your free ticket to the Cash Train right here..so let's get started! You can go as fast as you want through the phases, but for the sake of simplicity we are going to break things down so we go nice and easy. Phase I Benefits After Your Done Today Free $12 Signup Bonus Build Downlines in 6 Traffic Exchanges Potential Commissions and Free Traffic Ability to Surf 555 Pages at Each Traffic Exchange and Earn Guaranteed! 1. Login to the Cash Surfing Network 2. Click on the one click signups for the six traffic exchanges (unless you are already a member). This will sign you up to them. 3. Next login to each traffic exchange and get your referral id.Your referral id is the number at the end of your referral link.Your referral link will be found in the affiliate, affiliate toolbox, or promote tab.Your looking for the area where you can advertise for the traffic exchange to earn. 4. Lastly, place the ids into the correct boxes on your Cash Surfing Network page and press update. 5. Enter your Cash Surfing Network userid at each Traffic Exchange in the profile section or CSN Cash Log section. Now you can advertise the Cash Surfing Network and build your downlines for potential commissions and free traffic. Wow that was easy right! To advertise the cash surfing network just go to the affiliate toolbox tab at CSN(Cash Surfing Network) and grab your affiliate link.It will look like this: http://www.cashsurfingnetwork.com/?rid=YOURUSERID ...where YOURUSERID is your affiliate id number. Then you can be on your way to earning by advertising the Cash Surfing Network. Video Recap: This is where I coach you quick and make sure your good to go. http://youtu.be/OS7Ir9Q6pFY That's it we'll see you soon. Cash Surfing Network Team, Eric Goettman, Marcus Wahl, Ken Locatelli, Rodney Hage Login: http://cashsurfingnetwork.com/login.php P.S. Grab the OTO and keep it locked in.You won't be disappointed ;)             5042 Wilshire Blvd #23566, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States           One-Click Unsubscribe | Modify Email Preferences | Report Abuse

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Summary: Someone, who is running misleading promotions or promises something in a promotion what he cannot or don't like to fulfill, does not need to wonder himself to get called to be a scammer.

It seems that the scammer Gerardas Norkus is running with his domain paid-to-read-email.com a lead generation system for other scam and malware sites. The scam gets already found at the faq's of the website paid-to-read-email.com. In these FAQ and his terms and conditions he thinks that he can stand over the law of the European Union. The site paid-to-read-email.com is registered in Lithuania and Lithuania is a member of the European Union. For this the scammer Gerardas Norkus has to respect the ecommerce law and the consumer protection law of the European Union. Maybe the scammer thinks that Lithuania still belongs to the formerly USSR. It would be time for him to wake up from this dream.

The scam from Gerardas Norkus on the site paid-to-read-email.com can get easily identified. He declares in the FAQ that the minimum payout is $15. You'll get for each email you'll read between $0.01 and $0.05. The scam gets found in that what he calls "garanteed paid emails (GPE)". That are only 100, which have in sum a value of $1. Together with the $3 sign-up bonus and the paid emails you'll reach only a maximum value of $4, which is far under the minimum payout of $15. You can increase your GPE factor by completing some surveys or offers. The problem is only that there are no offers on the site and the survey links are leading to scam, phishing, virus and malware sites. As it is a requirement in his offer to complete such surveys is he in front of law liable for the content of the sites including the scam, phishing, viruses and malware! This responsibility cannot get excluded by writing some statements on a website because it is a part of his business.

Here are the FAQ of the page paid-to-read-email.com. If you read them with an open mind then you'll get it that you get guaranteed NOT PAID: 

What is Paid To Read Email®?
Paid To Read Email® is an online rewards community where you can earn money for reading emails, taking surveys, completing offers, referring friends and more! You can also choose to earn points that are redeemable for gift cards, guaranteed™ paid emails (GPE) and more.

Here gets already the first part of the scam found. You have to buy the "guaranteed paid emails" with your work. With other words you are paying with your workforce the scam.

How does Paid To Read Email® pay me to read email?
Paid To Read Email® will pay you $0.01 - $0.05 for every paid email that you confirm. Simply follow the instructions in the paid email you receive, and your account will be credited! Note that you won't be credited for reading paid emails if your guaranteed™ paid emails (GPE) are expired.

In this case the scammer Gerardas Norkus likes to burden his duties to the consumer. The problem is only that this is against the consumer protection law of the European Union. As soon as the the customer of his site - it does not make any difference if the offer is free of charge or not - does a job, in this case reading of an email as offered, the customer has to get paid.

How and when will I be paid?
Member commissions shall be paid by PayPal. Payments are processed within three (3) business days upon request, however your first time payment is processed on a net-15 basis. This means that your first payment will be processed 15 days from the end of the month in which you requested payment. This waiting period is necessary in order to prevent online fraud. Member commissions must exceed $15 in order to receive payment. Commissions earned during any month less than $15 will be carried over into the following month.

In the above statement the stupid scammer Gerardas Norkus does not know that he has to pay by law in any case as soon as the consumer has seen the counter. A printout of the page where the amount is written is enough evidence for the law court.

You are able to calculate how long it will take until you get a payout by the fact, that I have gotten exactly 0 (zero) paid emails within 24 hours after signing up for the service. The scammer hopes that the people will take the trap with his malware sites if they are not able to earn something.

Why was I not credited for reading paid emails?
You won't get credited for confirming paid emails if your guaranteed™ paid emails (GPE) are expired. You can see your current GPE amount when you login to your account and go to Earnings page. You can increase your GPE by taking surveys and offers, or by earning points and redeeming them for GPE.

Note that the higher paid email rate you have selected in your profile the faster your GPE will expire.

Like it is written before already, the customer has to get paid as it offered. The idea that the scammer can let the customer working free of charge confirms the scam!

Why was I not credited for surveys and offers that I completed?
There are several possible reasons for not getting credited in your account. Note that Paid To Read Email® does not credit member accounts for completing surveys and offers. This process is handled by the advertiser companies who hosts and maintains all of the surveys and offers. The company who credits the surveys and offers has the final say in whether or not you are credited, and reserves the right to refuse a member credit for a survey or offer for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, lack of appropriate information, improper sign-up, improper browser settings, and/or a history of manual credits. If you do not see the credit in your account, that means that Paid To Read Email® did not receive credit either, and we therefore cannot pay you.

Even here is the scammer Gerardas Norkus wrong. As the surveys from other companies are a part of his offer is he liable for the payment of his customers. It does not matter if he gets some money for the work of his customers for another company or not. He is even liable for the promises of the other sites! 

Scamadviser reports about the site paid-to-read-email.com:

Technical contact email address is a free one
Administrative contact email address is a free one
This website is associated with a risk site
This website setup involves countries known to be high risk
This website is likely to be operating from a high risk country

This site has a high risk country associated with it. This may be as you expect but care should be taken if purchasing an item from a site that you didn't expect to be associated with the countries listed above. Certain countries are listed as being high risk because of the high percentage of online fraud or tendency to send fake/replica items.

Free email addresses have been used in the setup of this website. This is not necesarily worrying, depending on the site. For online shops, this can be a sign that the site has some risk

In the following list you'll see for which sites the scammer Gerardas Norkus makes lead generation. Each of the survey sites from his member section generates an Adguard and a security warning from 360 Total Security. As the Adguard warning come first on my computer and to keep the list short I have copied here only the Adguard warnings: 

Adguard has blocked access to this page

This web page at survey.saysoforgood.com, has been reported as a phishing page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Adguard has found that this page may be a forgery or imitation of another website, designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial information. Entering any personal information on this page may result in identity theft or other abuse.

I'll recommend everybody to use some protection like Adguard and a good virus scanner like 360 Total Security for visiting a website the first time. It shows you not only the danger of site it protects your computer against malicious software.

Adguard has blocked access to this page

This web page at www.paid-surveys-at-home.com, has been reported as a phishing page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Adguard has found that this page may be a forgery or imitation of another website, designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial information. Entering any personal information on this page may result in identity theft or other abuse.

Scamadvisor says about paid-surveys-at-home.com:

This website has been reported as being untrustworthy
This website/business has been given a low reliability rating by other websites
This website is deemed to be popular by Alexa with a ranking of 45904

Scamadviser has detected negative online feedback associated with this company so you may want to do further checks

Additional user information about paid-surveys-at-home.com and their use about fake news sites can get found at Web Of Trust (WOT).

Adguard has blocked access to this page

This web page at www.freelotto.com, has been reported as a malware page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Adguard has found that malicious software may be installed onto your computer if you proceed. If you've visited this site in the past or you trust this site, it is possible that it has just recently been compromised by a hacker. We recommend you to not proceed or try again later.

Scamadvisor reports about freelotto.com:

This website has been reported as being untrustworthy
This website/business has been given a low reliability rating by other websites
This website is deemed to be popular by Alexa with a ranking of 3233

Although this website appears to be based in United States there are other countries involved and you should review this information carefully and decide if it is as you expect.
Scamadviser has detected negative online feedback associated with this company so you may want to do further checks.

You'll find at Web Of Trust (WOT) actual 26 pages from users about the scam, phishing and virus/malware distribution from freelotto.com.

Other domains with negative reputation from the scammer Gerardas Norkus are:

• adnetmarket.com
• cash4offers.com
• mooladays.com
• paid-to-read-email.com
• paidemailbusiness.com
• quickpaysurvey.com
• surveysemail.com
• typistjobs.net

How Gerardas Norkus is scamming you if you are signing up can get shown on a complaint at RippOffReport about his domain cash4offers.com:

Cash4offers - Gerardas Norkus this guy is ripping people off and must be stopped ripoff Lithuania Internet

this guy is ripping people off and must be stopped. after i signed up and completed offers using my credit card i had over 50 dollars in my account (which you need before you can request a check to be sent to you). now i cant logg on my account is blocked. after l search this guy he has his fingers in alot of scams. fake cds how-to-get rich scams. im taking this action further! also more paid survey sites, which im guessing all these sites belong to him after i searched them and found his name behind most of them.

dont sign up for nothing. dont give credit card info, search bb because this is where im going next to report him. one thing to this scum> stay in your own country and hide behind your dark corner!! all good things come to a end!

angel
very mad and taking it further, District of Columbia
U.S.A.

That the above complaint is not a revenge from an unhappy user gets shown on the report and rating of cash4offers.com from the U.S. Better Business Bureau. This report shows too that it does not help against the authorities to hide the domain ownership behind some privacy services.

Domain registration data from paid-to-read-email.com:

Domain Name: PAID-TO-READ-EMAIL.COM
Registry Domain ID: 143620425_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2014-12-30T11:30:38Z
Creation Date: 2005-02-23T16:15:45Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-02-23T16:15:45Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Gerardas Norkus
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Kvieciu g. 4 - 23
Registrant City: Vilnius
Registrant State/Province: Aukstaitija
Registrant Postal Code: 08438
Registrant Country: Lithuania
Registrant Phone: +370.60009470
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: gndomains@gmail.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Gerardas Norkus
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: Kvieciu g. 4 - 23
Admin City: Vilnius
Admin State/Province: Aukstaitija
Admin Postal Code: 08438
Admin Country: Lithuania
Admin Phone: +370.60009470
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: gndomains@gmail.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Gerardas Norkus
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: Kvieciu g. 4 - 23
Tech City: Vilnius
Tech State/Province: Aukstaitija
Tech Postal Code: 08438
Tech Country: Lithuania
Tech Phone: +370.60009470
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: gndomains@gmail.com
Name Server: NS1.ADNETMARKET.COM
Name Server: NS2.ADNETMARKET.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-11-08T12:00:00Z <<<

By taking a look at the promotion I ask myself why someone goes for work a full month, if he can earn more then average within a few hours of work?

Such a offer sounds too good to be true. We know that everything, which seems to be too good to be true is not not true. The same situation is with the offer from click4surveys.com. They are promoting that you can earn for filling surveys. Nobody will pay you for filling surveys, they are only collecting your data for selling them in the best case. Promotion goes into the masses and no company likes to get the opinion of only a handful people, for this they are not able to pay you big sums for filling out some surveys.

The Chinese Terry Shi is rotating the Survey from ClickBank. Maybe he is hoping to get rich quick. He should think about it that he will only spend money instead of getting rich. Before May 12, 2015 he has been promoting the offer from click4surveys.com. Now he is promoting the offer for takesurveysforcash.com.

We can expect a lot fake domains, which have the same content like the original site. As scammer are lazy they let the content running in a frame or redirecting to the original site. Another problem is, that nobody will promote a way to earn like a CEO if he not need your money for his earnings.

By taking a closer look at the click4surveys website, then we find the reason why they are spamming the social network sites - it is their affiliate program. That is the way how the members of click4surveys are earning money with their unbelievable promotion.

We find at the end of the website a FTC disclaimer, where is written, that the person found in the testimonials/endorsment got paid for publishing their opinion. This show us already the fake:

FTC disclosure: The persons found in the testimonials/ endorsements on this page have received monetary incentives to publish their opinions about Click4Surveys. These persons were part of an initial trial group that received free access to the Click4Surveys program along with monetary payment for voicing their opinion about their experiences.

If I'm earning a lot from a little bit work, like one hour per day, nobody need to pay me for making promotion for this kind of work.

Even click4surveys.com does not guarantee something. For this you need only to read the very small printed disclaimer at the end of their website. This disclaimer shows us that they not believe into their own system:

Click4Surveys.com Earnings Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to accurately represent this product and it's potential. Even though this industry is one of the few where one can write their own check in terms of earnings, there is no guarantee that you will earn any money using the techniques and ideas in these materials. Examples in these materials are not to be interpreted as a promise or guarantee of earnings. Earning potential is entirely dependent on the person using our product, ideas, techniques and the effort put forth. We do not purport this as a "get rich scheme." Your level of success in attaining the results claimed in our materials depends on the time you devote to the program, ideas and techniques mentioned, knowledge and various skills. Since these factors differ according to individuals, we cannot guarantee your success or income level. Materials in our product and our website may contain information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of the securities litigation reform act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give our expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They use words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "believe," "plan," and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with a description of potential earnings or financial performance. Any and all forward looking statements here or on any of our sales material are intended to express our opinion of earnings potential. Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to ours or anybody else's, in fact no guarantees are made that you will achieve any results from our ideas and techniques. Results vary, and as with any money-making opportunity, you could make more or less. Success in ANY money-making opportunity is a result of hard work, time and a variety of other factors. No express or implied guarantees of income are made by Click4Surveys.com.

Conclusion: It is a typical pyramid system with the touch of MLM/affiliate marketing. Only the people on the top are earning.

A typical SPAM posting from click4surveys.com:

Your Last Chance to Secure up to $750 - $1500/week for One Hour of Work!

http://is.gd/K6Ucgm==>> Your Last Chance to Secure up to $750 - $1500/week for One Hour of Work! This is available to anybody in the world

Get started TODAY Here

is.gd•Make $400 Profit Every Day With 30 Minutes of Work! You Can Start Today.

 

The first redirect (url-shortener) brings you to the domain blessingway.info. That is the first reason to take a look at the reputation of the domain blessingway.info by using Scamadviser with the following result:

Alert Result: Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Alert Result: Registered contact email address is a free one
Alert Result: Technical contact email address is a free one
Alert Result: Administrative contact email address is a free one
Alert Result: This Site Maybe Linked With Other Risky Sites
Alert Result: This website is 61 Days old
Alert Result: The website expected life (366 days) is relatively short.
Alert Result: The website appears to be less than six months old
Alert Result: This website setup involves countries known to be high risk
Alert Result: This website is likely to be operating from a high risk country

If we take a look at the source code of the website, then we see in a frame a website from the domain clickbank.net running:

<html>
<meta property="og:title" content="Get started TODAY Here"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://d2ipzmg0avd0av.cloudfront.net/i/img-32.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="Make $400 Profit Every Day With 30 Minutes of Work! You Can Start Today."/>
<meta property="og:url" content="" />
<head>
</head>
<frameset framespacing="0" border="0" rows="0" frameborder="0">
<frame name="main" src="http://84edc8fdhcpc4s8bkpkpxpz3z5.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=511" scrolling="auto" noresize>
</frameset>
</html>

On the website of click4dsurveys.com we find a disclaimer about Clickbank:

ClickBank is a registered trademark of Keynetics Inc., a Delaware corporation. Click4Surveys.com is not affiliated with Keynetics Inc. in any way, nor does Keynetics Inc. sponsor or approve any Click4Surveys.com product. Keynetics Inc. expresses no opinion as to the correctness of any of the statements made by Click4Surveys.com in the materials on this Web page.

My opinion is that someone, which supports spam and scam is not better then the scammer himself. Even such a disclaimer will not give them a better reputation.

We use again Scamadviser for checking the reputation of the domain clickbank.net:

Alert Result: Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Alert Result: This website/business has been given a low reliability rating by other websites
Alert Result: This website has been reported as being untrustworthy
Good Result: This website is deemed to be popular by Alexa with a ranking of 1237

click4surveys.com is already well-known for their spam and their unbelievable promotion. Anyway, we are asking Scamadviser for the reputation of click4surveys.com:

Alert Result: Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Alert Result: This website has been listed as having malware.
Alert Result: The owner of the website is using a service to hide their identity
Alert Result: This website is 1 Years old
Good Result: This website is deemed to be popular by Alexa with a ranking of 34346

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  Judy Lawson · Works at General Motors

  It's telling it is a very high risk it got me but I will call the bank and get stopped.

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · May 4 at 6:09am

   

   
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  Lynne Konwinski ·  Top Commenter

  I checked it out on scamadviser.com its show ing me not safe to use, low trust rating.i always check this site for sites like this, sure if it trust worthy.

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · April 12 at 1:06am

   

   
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  Youness Frix · Follow · Télévendeur anglophone atAlloWin

  this it a scam stay away from it take my word for true.

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · April 9 at 11:27pm

   

   
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  Jai Prakash Narayan · Muzaffarpur bihar at AdSense

  fake site hia sir not joing.

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · March 20 at 8:55pm

   

   
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  Justin VanAtta · Sales Representative at Motor Club of America - MCA

  The pay plan with this is awesome! http://justinvanatta.totaltakeover.com/classic/

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · March 2 at 3:30am

   

   
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  Regina Small · Follow ·  Top Commenter ·Unemployed Looking for work at Alumnus

  Hello guys, I am a part of Wealthy Affiliate The community is very friendly and helpful. Just ask questions when you're stuck don't be afraid! :) Learning might take up weeks but it depends if you're busy on the side. I am taking college courses online so I have more time on my hands to work on building my business. By the way I am a premium member! Here's the site to join:
  
  http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/a_aid/1b8d2e06/campaign/realmoneymaking.
  
  By the way, that's my part of the website when you sign in you are my referral. So I would know who signed in under me ♥. 
  
  Look at wealthyaffiliate.com on the scam advisor search you'll see what I mean. That's the main page but it'll be sweet and kind of someone signing under my name/link :)
  You can also join and not pay anything and do some training. Premium would get you to faster s... See More

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · February 25 at 5:01pm

   

   
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  Gary Shadforth · Follow · Gary's English TESOL Conversational English

  One of those if ‘it’s too good to be true it isn’t’ traps. As usual with these one will pay money out not make money which is a person’s aim.

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · January 11 at 10:06am

   

   
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  Timothy Potter

  Scam definitely.

  Reply · Like · Follow Post · December 31, 2014 at 1:40am

   

   
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  Art Johnnyjohn · Follow

  Don't join - site wants you to install backup software JUST to work, what you're really doing is being forced to make a purchase that has nothing to do with their site and then forced to buy other things in order to get "paid" for data entry of your own info to other companies that don't pay you anything because you're buying their product. You'll spend hundreds before you see the $25 they promise to pay you, IF they pay you. A+ Scam

  Reply · Like · 5 · Follow Post · October 25, 2014 at 7:04am

   

   
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  Shavhani Lukhwareni · Johannesburg, Gauteng

  I don't like it also.No one is expected to pay money to go for a survey.Genuine surveys are free to join!

  Reply · Like · 4 · Follow Post · September 25, 2014 at 9:11pm

Registration data of blessingway.info:

Domain Name:BLESSINGWAY.INFO
Domain ID: D54690226-LRMS
Creation Date: 2015-03-12T01:30:25Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2016-03-12T01:30:25Z
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, LLC (R171-LRMS)
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL:
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited -- [link removed] ID:CR189871912
Registrant Name:terry shi
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Yang mei zhu xie jie 140 hao
Registrant City:beijing
Registrant State/Province:beijing
Registrant Postal Code:100051
Registrant Country:CN
Registrant Phone:+86.13146247643
Registrant Phone Ext:
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Admin ID:CR189871914
Admin Name:terry shi
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: Yang mei zhu xie jie 140 hao
Admin City:beijing
Admin State/Province:beijing
Admin Postal Code:100051
Admin Country:CN
Admin Phone:+86.13146247643
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Billing Street: Yang mei zhu xie jie 140 hao
Billing City:beijing
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Billing Postal Code:100051
Billing Country:CN
Billing Phone:+86.13146247643
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Tech ID:CR189871913
Tech Name:terry shi
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: Yang mei zhu xie jie 140 hao
Tech City:beijing
Tech State/Province:beijing
Tech Postal Code:100051
Tech Country:CN
Tech Phone:+86.13146247643
Tech Phone Ext:
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Name Server:NS28.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server:
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DNSSEC:Unsigned

Update Jan. 18, 2017: Links to the Facebook profiles of Judy Lawson (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008884050625), Lynne Konwinski (https://www.facebook.com/lynne.konwinski), Youness Frix (https://www.facebook.com/youness.khouloud), Regina Small (https://www.facebook.com/reginarose.alexina) and Timothy Potter (https://www.facebook.com/timpotter3) removed as the links are returning error 404 - not found.

An actual offer in the social networks has coming into my focus. The offer is "Make $25.00 For Every Email You Process And Get Paid INSTANTLY!". The offer has all signs of a scam from the kind "get rich fast".

A search for product, which shall get sold by this system, is completely missing. You get $25 for each member you recruit. The new members have nothing else to do then to you. The only way in which this offer differs from a standard pyramid scheme is that there is an extremely short “downline” (just you) and that the site owners are not part of the downline. The site owners are only earning $10 if one of the members order a site. Any way is it nothing than a pyramid system from which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning. In some countries is such a system even illegal because nothing gets traded.

A look at the domain registration of the promoted website, which should be a "Proven System since 2010", shows that the creation date is Feburary 5, 2014. For this it can be only an affiliate.

Domain Name: MYCASHEMAILS.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1845546537_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: [link removed] Date: 2015-02-06T11:50:46Z
Creation Date: 2014-02-05T22:47:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-02-05T22:47:00Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.480-624-2505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited [link removed] Status: clientUpdateProhibited [link removed] Status: clientRenewProhibited [link removed] Status: clientDeleteProhibited [link removed] Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: YOUSSEF RAIS
Registrant Organization: voilinktel
Registrant Street: hassania 2 alia mohammedia
Registrant City: mohammedia
Registrant State/Province: casablanca
Registrant Postal Code: 20800
Registrant Country: Morocco
Registrant Phone: +212.212633197262
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: YOUSSEF RAIS
Admin Organization: voilinktel
Admin Street: hassania 2 alia mohammedia
Admin City: mohammedia
Admin State/Province: casablanca
Admin Postal Code: 20800
Admin Country: Morocco
Admin Phone: +212.212633197262
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
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Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: YOUSSEF RAIS
Tech Organization: voilinktel
Tech Street: hassania 2 alia mohammedia
Tech City: mohammedia
Tech State/Province: casablanca
Tech Postal Code: 20800
Tech Country: Morocco
Tech Phone: +212.212633197262
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
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Name Server: NS49.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS50.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: [link removed] update of WHOIS database: 2015-05-11T05:00:00Z

A view into the sourcecode of the website shows us the source from where the content is coming:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>gain daily cash by sending emails </title>
<META name="description" content="Copy and past ads, process emails and gain daily cash between 100 to 400 Dollars depends on how many hours you will work each day"
><META name="keywords" content="work, gain, money, home, internet, marketing, commerce, ecommerce, web, blog, email, cash, revenue, millionaire,">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://epsprosperityhotline.com/joseph82" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>
<!-- pageok -->
<!-- 01 -->
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</html>

We see in the above code that the site is only a frame and loads in reality the data from epsprosperityhotline.com for the refferal joseph82.

Scamadviser says about epsprosperityhotline.com:

Warning: Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Good Result: This website is deemed to be popular by Alexa with a ranking of 250692

Scamadviser only oversees that the domain ownership is hidden by a proxy service. Even the Alexa ranking of 250692 is not really a good sign especially if I compare it with my own site here, which has at the moment an Alexa ranking of 293180 (you can view the actual Alexa ranking of blog.wwpa.com by scrolling down to the end of the links on the right site).

The domain registration data of epsprosperityhotline.com show us that the domain got created January 28, 2013, so it cannot be a proven system since 2010.

Domain Name: EPSPROSPERITYHOTLINE.COM
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.domaindiscover.com
Registrar URL: [link removed] Date: 2015-03-29T05:53:18Z
Creation Date: 2013-01-28T17:55:39Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-01-28T17:57:25Z
Registrar: TIERRANET INC. DBA DOMAINDISCOVER
Registrar IANA ID: 86
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6193932105
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Whois Privacy Service
Registrant Organization: Whois Privacy Service
Registrant Street: PO BOX 501610
Registrant City: San Diego
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 92150-1610
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.6193932111
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
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Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Whois Privacy Service
Admin Organization: Whois Privacy Service
Admin Street: PO BOX 501610
Admin City: San Diego
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 92150-1610
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.6193932111
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
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Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Whois Privacy Service
Tech Organization: Whois Privacy Service
Tech Street: PO BOX 501610
Tech City: San Diego
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 92150-1610
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.6193932111
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
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Name Server: NS3.EPSPROSPERITYHOTLINE.COM
Name Server: NS4.EPSPROSPERITYHOTLINE.COM
DNSSEC:
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: [link removed] Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-05-08T18:43:32Z

If I try to visit the site directly, I'll get immediately a warning from Adguard:

Adguard has blocked access to this page
This web page at epsprosperityhotline.com, has been reported as a phishing page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Adguard has found that this page may be a forgery or imitation of another website, designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial information. Entering any personal information on this page may result in identity theft or other abuse.

As I know what I'm doing, I proceed and get the information that I have reached the site without a referral ID. If we add the referral id to the link, then we get like expected the same content. A view into the source code shows us, that we have reached really the parent site, which is even running in a frame by itself., because inside this frame are no other frame sets.

<html> <head> <title>Email Processors Wanted</title>
<meta name="description" content="Email Processors Wanted">
<meta name="keywords" content="Email Processors Wanted">
</head> <FRAMESET cols="100%"> <FRAME src="http://epsprosperityhotline.com/landingpage2.php?id=6725"> </FRAMESET></html>

It is nice that epsprospertyhotline.com makes by themselves in their headline the connection to clickbank.net, which is already known from the different pyramid systems like paidsocialmediajobs.com, getcashforsurveys.com, click4surveys com, surveyspaid.com, etc. which are promoting the same get rich quick scheme.

At ScamAdviser we find about clickbank.net the complaints of two users and the following information:

Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Alert Result: This website/business has been given a low reliability rating by other websites
Alert Result: This website has been reported as being untrustworthy
Good Result: This website is deemed to be popular by Alexa with a ranking of 1237

Other reviews:

• Moral Dilemma...Are all ClickBank products scams?
• I've Tried That
• To Build My Own
• Out of the poor house (January 18, 2017: link http://outofthepoorhouse.com/eps-prosperity-hotline-review/ removed as the domain does not exist anymore)

Any company that requires you to first pay them a fee before they can pay you is nothing less than a scam, similar to pyramid schemes.

Some of these job descriptions from Paid Social Media Jobs have you getting companies ridiculously impossible things like 4,000 hits or likes in an hour, a million in a few days and similar things that, unless you have some illegal adder software, is not doable.

On top of this, they use a fake "Fox News" clip that has nothing to do with nor endorses "Paid Social Media Jobs".

Following the Link given to paidsocialmediajobs.com is not really suggested, because even Adguard warns from this site:

Warning! Could be unsafe!

 

Adguard has blocked access to this page

This web page at paidsocialmediajobs.com, has been reported as a phishing page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Adguard has found that this page may be a forgery or imitation of another website, designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial information. Entering any personal information on this page may result in identity theft or other abuse.

scamadviser says about paidsocialmediajobs.com

Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Alert Result: This website has been reported as being untrustworthy
Alert Result: The owner of the website is using a service to hide their identity
Alert Result: This website/business has been given a low reliability rating by other websites

I have opened the website from paidsocialmediajobs.com in a safe way by disabling scripting and all web addons and found out that they are using clickbank.net for their affiliate system.

scamadviser warns from clickbank.net:

Low Trust Rating. This Site May Not Be Safe to Use.
Alert Result: This website/business has been given a low reliability rating by other websites
Alert Result: This website has been reported as being untrustworthy

The Web of Trust signs are showing the sam too. You should read the comments of the user at Web of Trust too:

Even at google are a lot of sites listed, which are warning from paidsocialmediajobs.com

The domain registration data from paidsocialmediajobs.com

Domain Name: PAIDSOCIALMEDIAJOBS.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1686629290_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: WHOIS.ENOM.COM
Registrar URL: WWW.ENOM.COM
Update Date: 2013-10-18T05:31:11.00Z
Creation Date: 2011-11-11T09:21:00.00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-11-11T01:21:00.00Z
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Registrar IANA ID: 48
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ABUSE@ENOM.COM
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252982646
Reseller: Namecheap.com
Domain Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Registrant Street:
Registrant City: PANAMA
Registrant State/Province: PANAMA
Registrant Postal Code: 00000
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.8365503
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +51.17057182
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: 7380E102BA7E43FDA2DB9C89D22FwC16.PROTECT@WHOISGUARD.com
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Admin Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Admin Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Admin Street:
Admin City: PANAMA
Admin State/Province: PANAMA
Admin Postal Code: 00000
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: 7380E102BA7E43FDA2DB9C89D22FwC16.PROTECT@WHOISGUARD.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Tech Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Tech Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Tech Street:
Tech City: PANAMA
Tech State/Province: PANAMA
Tech Postal Code: 00000
Tech Country: PA
Tech Phone: +507.8365503
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +51.17057182
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: 7380E102BA7E43FDA2DB9C89D22FwC16.PROTECT@WHOISGUARD.com
Name Server: NS1.PAIDWORKATHOMEJOBS.COM
Name Server: NS2.PAIDWORKATHOMEJOBS.COM
DNSSEC:UNSIGNED
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System:
HTTP://WDPRS.INTERNIC.NET/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database:2011-11-11T01:21:58.00Z <<<

Read about clickbank.net at Moral Dilemma...Are all ClickBank products scams? too.