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June 9, 2008

Sebastian Foss - Sebastian Foss and the Hit Booster

by Ferdinand T Cat

Today we received a spam email about a new traffic-generating tool called Hit Booster. Hit Booster promises to bring thousands of hits to your site in just 15 minutes, and it comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. The 15 minutes and the 100% are the signature promises of one man: Internet marketing fraud king Sebastian Foss.

Hit Booster is conceptually similar to the Google Cash Machine. The Google Cash Machine would surf to your site and click through the Google pay-per-click ads to boost your revenue. If Google caught you using the Cash Machine, it would blacklist you for the rest of your life. Hit Booster directs you to sign up for an ad-sharing service like TrafficSwarm and then clicks through ads to generate TrafficSwarm hits. If TrafficSwarm catches you, you'll also be blacklisted. This is not as bad as the penalty for using Cash Machine, but only because TrafficSwarm doesn't have the awesome god-like influence of Google. Still, being banned from TrafficSwarm is not going to improve your site's overall reputation.

In every one of his ads, Sebastian Foss has a sequence like the following:

People keep asking me, “Sebastian, why are you sharing this program ? Won't that just increase your competition?” Good Question!

The actual answer (which won't be the one in his ad) is that the authorities are on to him, so if he were to use his tools himself, he'd get shut down. It's much better for his bottom line if you get shut down instead.

So, ignore the testimonials, ignore the ads, and if you don't want to make a lot of enemies, don't buy this product. It's another scam from a scam king.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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Thank you for the heads-up! I don't buy (pay for) any of these things anyway, but it's good to know. ;)


Posted by: Rosemary at June 9, 2008 8:02 PM

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