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Version: MySpace Guardian Toolbar 4.1
"Spyware, and a front for a SCAM"
Pros: Nothing. It's spyware. It's used to trick people into buying keywords that promises to get their business listed above search engine results.
Cons: This is a front for a big scam that's been going on for years. Spyware companies are promoting themselves as: "get to the top of Google, Yahoo, and MSN search guaranteed for your keywords."
When someone downloads this online toolbar and does a search, the program takes over and the information is data merged with other pay-for-keywords data feeds. When the search results page is displayed to the user it looks like the natural results or even large site targeted Banner Ads at the top of the leading search companies. Depending on who you talk to in these organizations, they claim to have 10 or 20 million network users. That number is BOGUS.
People do not have a clue that this downloaded software is changing the relevant results of their searches, plus potentially monitoring all the keywords they type in their browsers.
Enter Attorneys, Realtors, Insurance Agents, and businesses looking for leads in the market place. An agent gets a cold call from a nice and sincere sales representative asking the agent if they are interested in getting thousands of leads and website visitors guaranteed? The agent is told how they can place a website at the top of certain keywords searches from the 10 to 20 million network users. With numbers like that, anyone would want to hear more information.
The salesman says they can place, say, your real estate website at the number 1 position for anyone looking at Homes For Sale in your area, plus, the hits to your website will prove that we are sending traffic . You will get thousands of hits ! To prevent over selling this technology to too many Realtors we are limiting it to the first 3 that sign up.
There is no telling as to the extent of how many American and International Professionals, for all professions, are captured by this net and how much revenue is being taken in. The tentacles of this illegal operation could be much greater than anyone could imagine. In fact, multiple websites are being created under different working ownership.
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