Question can this ad be trusted?

[Marvinxox]

Hello
I just opened the Arachnoboards and suddently I saw an ad on the top of the site.

Then I clicked on it because I thought it might be a gimmick of the forum or whatever and suddently I saw this stite:

Doesn´t look like a gimmick to me. More like either a interesting new take at getting email-adresses or at giving me a virus.
But I´m not sure, it could also be a gimmick that just happens to use the same layout as basically every site, that wanted to gift me with expensive tech, millions of dollars or short term relationships.
Does anyone know, if this really is a trustable Thing, or if this site is just people with bad intentions aiming at a new group (= Invert-owners)?

 

[tewebag]

Anything with a url like that in a paid ad spot I distrust instantly.

 

[The Snark]

Does anyone know, if this really is a trustable Thing, or if this site is just people with bad intentions aiming at a new group

Mailchi is MailChimp. A huge email marketing operation. A search reveals people are avoiding it and there has been accusations of Pay Pal scamming and hijacking.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Q: Can this ad be trusted?

A: Sure, man

I always open, click everywhere I can click, send my I.D, address, online banking and whatnot to every site/mail etc I encounter on my online free time adventures. I also keep paying $1, 1 Euro (depends) those brand new iPhone sometimes offered, and I'm certain that one day I will receive a truck full of those.

There aren't risks, after all... con-artists doesn't operate in the virtual world, frankly would be a shocking new to hear something like that, because the Internet keeps mantaining a sort of 'purity', of 'innocence'

 

[Marvinxox]

Anything with a url like that in a paid ad spot I distrust instantly.

Agreed. I was just confused, that someone uses such scam-methods for Invert-hobyists instead of just sticking to adult-websites like nearly all the other scammers do.

Mailchi is MailChimp. A huge email marketing operation. A search reveals people are avoiding it and there has been accusations of Pay Pal scamming and hijacking.

Oh, thanks for the info. Didn´t know about mailchimp.

Q: Can this ad be trusted?

A: Sure, man

I always open, click everywhere I can click, send my I.D, address, online banking and whatnot to every site/mail etc I encounter on my online free time adventures. I also keep paying $1, 1 Euro (depends) those brand new iPhone sometimes offered, and I'm certain that one day I will receive a truck full of those.

There aren't risks, after all... con-artists doesn't operate in the virtual world, frankly would be a shocking new to hear something like that, because the Internet keeps mantaining a sort of 'purity', of 'innocence'

Aw, thanks for the advice.
They had some really weird question for signing up to their newsletter. I wonder what they need my mothers maiden name for...

I was just confused that someone makes a advert as specific as this.
I can figure that porn-ads reach a lot of people and these "get a Million bitcoin" or "this simple trick made me rich in minutes"-scams get at least enough naive people to click on them. But making one just for tarantula keeping is just very specific. I think I never saw one as specific as this one before (besides one we made in school in an attempt to trick our informatics-teacher. That didn´t work tho).

 

[MintyWood826]

I'm getting that same ad

 

[schmiggle]

Give it a fake email address--construct an address using a pseudonym on gmail, and just feed it that. See what happens next. If it sends you an activation email, don't open it unless you don't care what happens to whatever computer you're using.

 

[The Snark]

I've reported that banner ad. It could easily be misconstrued as something AB is promoting.

 

[PanzoN88]

Regardless of what a banner on any site says, even if it says free pizza for life, I wouldn't even waste my finger dexterity by moving to click a banner that is most certainly dodgy.

 

[NYAN]

Regardless of what a banner on any site says, even if it says free pizza for life, I wouldn't even waste my finger dexterity by moving to click a banner that is most certainly dodgy.

Even this one?

 

[darkness975]

I'm seeing it too. I hope it gets erradicated ASAP.

@cold blood @Ungoliant

 

[Arachnopets]

Hey All,

It is from a real website. The website is: https://www.tarantulaheaven.com/

I will be contacting the owner shortly to have the link changed for the banner.

Thanks,

Debby

 

[Marvinxox]

Hey All,

It is from a real website. The website is: https://www.tarantulaheaven.com/

I will be contacting the owner shortly to have the link changed for the banner.

Thanks,

Debby

Very interesting.
I´ve checked the site and it seems like it´s made just in order of making money.
Ad´s all over the site, articles consiting of about 90% Amazon-links and "buy my book" in just about every second sentence.
Besides that she sells advertisement-rights as well as shirts, calendars and other merchandise.
The information given on the site seems okay (altough there´s not much actual content), but a site thats plastered with Amazon-ads seems a bit sketchy to me.

Give it a fake email address--construct an address using a pseudonym on gmail, and just feed it that. See what happens next. If it sends you an activation email, don't open it unless you don't care what happens to whatever computer you're using.

Too much work for me. Altough it would have been a very good investigating method.

I've reported that banner ad. It could easily be misconstrued as something AB is promoting.

That´s what I tought at first. But then the site seemed to sketchy and I made this thread.

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Even this one?

I´d trust my life on a site with a domain thats called "poop911.com

 

[Ungoliant]

@cold blood @Ungoliant

FYI, we moderators don't have any control over the ads; only admins like @Arachnopets can look into that.