{"id":5328,"date":"2021-06-24T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickceasebiz.com\/blog\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:58:47","slug":"the-scam-ptc-sites-duping-marketers-and-job-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clickcease.com\/blog\/the-scam-ptc-sites-duping-marketers-and-job-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scam PTC Sites Duping Marketers AND Job Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the pandemic changing the way many of us work, the rise in paid-to-click (PTC) websites has been stratospheric. These websites and apps pay registered users a small fee to click or view ads. And, of course, they make a tidy sum themselves from hosting those ads and collecting the payout from the traffic they generate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it\u2019s estimated that the biggest sites made around $12 million in 2020 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read our report about the rise of PTC sites in 2020<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as well as a number of well-known and authentic paid-to-click websites, there has been an alarming rise in sites run by unscrupulous scammers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of scam PTC sites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

James Greening, owner of Fake Website Buster<\/a> says, \u201cDuring the pandemic I\u2019ve seen online scams skyrocketing\u2026 and (the pandemic) has also been a real boon for scammers preying on job seekers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With paid-to-click websites relatively easy to set up, it\u2019s an obvious target for scammers to move into.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although sites like NeoBux and Scarlet Clix are genuine PTC sites that do actually pay their users, there are a growing number that are designed to make a fraudulent publisher as much money as they can off unsuspecting advertisers and desperate job seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, genuine paid-to-click sites still impact marketers by spending their ad budget on people who aren\u2019t necessarily interested in the product.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these scam PTC sites hook in users with offers of easy money, only to waste their time and of course, skip on the payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As James says, \u201cThese platforms offer to pay users to watch videos, which constitutes click fraud. The payout rate is also very high for this kind of work\u2026 And in addition, they claim to pay out 40% in referrals if users get more people to sign up\u2026 Indicating that these sites also operate as a kind of ponzi scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although scam PTC sites are nothing new<\/a>, there are a glut of them that have been set up relatively recently, many with nonsense names, often with a .xyz or .site domain registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wintub.com, xopmoney.XYZ, aervideo.xyz, and Rupee4click.com are all examples of this worrying trend of paid-to-click sites designed specifically to scam both advertisers and users.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the giveaways of these scam sites include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n