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Mar 2nd 2007 3:18PM Well it's a cool idea, but there's this site I used to visit in the past (they were on Digg 1 or 2), and basically they said they were giving away $5000 US dollars to anyone who could suggest the best way spread the word about their site. I suspected it was a scam because that was too large an amount, and basically people entered and at the very end of the contest - they didn't update the page for a few weeks.

Finally when they did, they made a fake post from some user saying "Get a link on Google" (that doesn't even make senes). Then a few days after that, they said they gave the prize to the user that had posted that - and they said that the user rejected it and instead chose to work with them for free.

The site was not a company, and it was clear that it was a single person project and again they put this video up on metacafe about their site, and now they're pretending like it was one of the visitors that did that and they claim they gave '$1000' dollars to that guy. The thing is that the owner of the site put a screenshot once that showed his desktop along with an icon for a very rare and unused program (I recognized it because I used it once, it's a bandwidth monitor) that was in the corner, and that same icon appears in the video (which is supposed to be a video capture of 'some random guy's' desktop as he browses and uses that site). He also censors comments on both his blog and the metacafe site because people keep posting about how the competition was fake.

Anyways the url for the site (not going to promote them, hence the asteriks - but you can get an idea of what the url could be):

http://www.ch**sea*d*wa*ch.com

Since then I'm not visiting that site, I'm not going to support a site that fakes competitions, and even worse for that site - I help admin my universities admin network and since the site in the past (perhaps not by choice) has had some very inappropriate and frankly sick (not porn) advertisements - so I added it to the block list.