Thursday, October 9, 2008

New scam minted - Isabelmarco

Isabelmarco, whether you are one Isabel and one Marco or one Isabelmarco or just a sick, stupid and screwed-up bot running on tainted fuel, I condemn you.

It hurts me almost as much (or perhaps more) as it might possibly hurt you (if you have a conscience) as I really prefer to extol the virtue of people (yes, I hope to place you in this category) than to expose their true, ugly and blemished selves.

A few days back, there was a sneaky announcement on your homepage that you will stop further payments to members who are not your paid intimates. Today, you emailed your decision to all your members.

Are you aware that this latest action of yours is lame? I quote you, "Our recent announcment to not pay standard members was a hard decision for us to make however due to the volume of cheaters in the system this was the only method we feel that will work at the moment."

This is so funny. Really funny. Instead of trying to find a way to solve the problem, you ingeniously use it as an excuse to penalize the non-cheaters who did not pay to make you richer. So if cheaters and non-cheaters all get the same treatment, why didn't you just tell me to cheat in the first place? This way, I might have made off with tons of payout already.

Again I quote, "Also, premium members are the investors that keep IM running." OMG, your ploy at pretentious honesty really slammed the guillotine for you. Do you know what this means? It means that you are really taking money from one premium membership to pay another premium member. So basically, as long as people stop becoming premium members or quit renewing, your entire scam tapestry will unravel and we will then see a 404 error on your website.

Many of those who have paid to become premium members will finally cry if they did not manage to pull back their investments in time. Granted that you would have made some people very happy but I don't see this as a plus point on your karma score sheet. For every 1 person you make happy, you probably tip the balance the other way for many more people.

You are a PTC site. Do you know that your main income should thus come from ads? That is the only true way to be self-sustaining. By relying primarily on premium fees as you so mock-innocently admit, you also admit to making money as the middleman shuffling money around.

You know, I almost invested in your site. I am glad I didn't.

And did you mention some of your partner sites - PimpBattle, IMfriends, IMsMilliondollarhomepage and ArcadeLounge? Goodness! How many times do you want to scam people? Have a care before you fall into the deep abyss of no return!

To all who have an account with Isabelmarco, I urge the following:

If you are a premium member, quickly break even then run.

If you are a non-premium member, just stop clicking unless you are almost reaching payout and want to convert your earnings to ads. Please do not for enlightenment's sake pay to become a premium member! That would just sink yourself into that cycle of making the site richer at your expense. There is no way premium membership fees will continue to get into the site's coffers perpetually. Since you are not trapped yet, don't dash forward and impale yourself.

Blessed be.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Goodness, even a simple-minded, honest individual can easily smell a scam even if its taking place on the cyber world. This is obviously a "poor" tactic from IsabelMarco to get more money from its members.

Its just too bad as I'd read a lot of glowing reviews about this site. IsabelMarco had resorted to this kind of strategy because they started to get greedy and was not content with the $$$ they are getting.

Sure, we all know its not easy to maintain a PTC platform and generating ads from different sources but they chose to degrade their reputation in the end.

Another one I had to list on my special black book. Thanks for the head up baby. I almost sign-up in this one days before.

Lord War Wizard said...

Yea baby, in fact after I posted this, I am beginning to realize that it might be the same case for many, most of even almost all (hopefully not all) PTC sites... it is disheartening to say the least.