Fake Coronavirus blackhat affiliate: "stay at home and make $100 per day"; have you seen similar?

[xy2_]

So I was watching something on Youtube and while reading the comments, came across this:



I was curious, because usually comments like these don't get many upvotes. After clicking, we learn that we can learn the secret, too: [archive.org link]


The site has little notification, a spot indicator that decreases in real time, and fake notifications at the bottom right. What's more surprising is the call to action: you "need" to copy paste a comment from your own Youtube account, that links to this very site (they are all redirects to this page), and then click the step 2 link, which is simply an affiliate link. If you don't click for a while, you get auto-redirected to that affiliate, too.

The included mp3 on the page talks about an "automated JavaScript detector" which will upvote those comments.

I was curious about the URL, so I looked at their other pages, which are the same (split test? avoiding blocking?):


This seems like a pretty coordinated effort. What do you think? Have you ever seen something on this scale?

 

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[Odysseus M Jones]

So I was watching something on Youtube and while reading the comments, came across this:

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I was curious, because usually comments like these don't get many upvotes. After clicking, we learn that we can learn the secret, too: [archive.org link]
View attachment 31978

The site has little notification, a spot indicator that decreases in real time, and fake notifications at the bottom right. What's more surprising is the call to action: you "need" to copy paste a comment from your own Youtube account, that links to this very site (they are all redirects to this page), and then click the step 2 link, which is simply an affiliate link. If you don't click for a while, you get auto-redirected to that affiliate, too.

The included mp3 on the page talks about an "automated JavaScript detector" which will upvote those comments.

I was curious about the URL, so I looked at their other pages, which are the same (split test? avoiding blocking?):
View attachment 31979

This seems like a pretty coordinated effort. What do you think? Have you ever seen something on this scale?

I'm curious, why would they do this?
What is their objective & what would they gain from it?
Did is seem effective?

 

[fastattack03]

Probably an unethical CPA offer but I don't know how it exactly works. Maybe they have a paid offer after that? Or maybe they'll need to get your information which will be paid by a third-party company