Adult Website Review Scam

Further to the Fuck You, Pay Me! post from the other day, I have noticed this little gem flying around Craigslist for the past couple of weeks:

I pay 20.00+ per 500-750 word article. Please email me if you are interested and can write proficiently in English.

* Location: Fresno [changes every day, as does the contact email]
* Compensation: 20.00+ per article
* This is a part-time job.
* Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
* Please, no phone calls about this job!
* Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

After emailing them with your résumé, you will get an email back:

I am building a dating website blog that will provide personal reviews to potential customers.

As a reviewer for us you will be given unrestricted access to the dating sites. We would like our reviews to be written by people who can write in basic, easy to understand english. Not too professional, but able to describe your experience with each product in detail. Basically, I would like you to write your reviews in the same words you would use to tell a friend
about the product or website.

In order to screen our writers for quality and ability we ask you that you
submit a short sample review. Please visit the link below and go through
the free registration process.

[URL of whatever website the sender is trying to flog that day]

After you have completed your registration look around the site,
do a couple searches and then write a short 50-100 word review of it and submit it
back to us.

You will receive an email from us within 24 hours if your review has been accepted
and you will be given all materials, memberships and details needed to perform
your reviews.

This is a scam, people. I don’t know if the people responsible are actually using the articles themselves for profit, or if they are getting paid by the registration to their adult websites. Either way, one thing is for sure: YOU are not getting paid.

The names change, the location changes, the website changes, but it’s the same scam. All you stand to gain from this is adult spam, and frankly, don’t you have enough Viagra already?