I am the owner administrator for the official website of the VW Club of Hawaii. A few days ago I received the following email.
Hi,
We are looking for new advertisement platforms and we are interested in your
site www.vwclubofhawaii.com.
Is it possible to place banner on your site on a fee basis?
Best regards,
Rayan Meyer
I responded with my advertising rates and specifically said I only take URLs and Images (125×125), no special code of any kind. Rayan Meyer responded with the following email.
Hello,
Thanks for reply to our proposal!
I represent Bevesto Agency. At the moment we are preparing an advertising campaign for Lacoste Company (it is a French company producing clothes, footwear, perfumery etc.) We already have designed banners for the campaign, they are the following sizes: 160×600, 240×400, 300×250, 336×280, 468×60, 728×90.
What can be your price for one banner (banner should appear at ALL pages of your site) of abovementioned sizes (please specify the place for the banner – top, bottom, left, right)? Please mention a normal link for banner, without javascript code and set prices in US dollars per month.
Best regards,
Rayan Meyer.
site: www.bevestoagency.com
e-mail: rmeyer@bevestoagency.com
phone: + (0)9 78 62 87 22
This is pretty strange considering my site is a VW Club site.
I respond again with another offer and I get this email…
Hi!
Here you can see our banners: http://docs.bevestoagency.com/lacoste/?view=1
We like your price.
To pass to the banner control system follow the link http://webmaster.bevestoagency.com
To enter use the following data:
login: www.vwclubofhawaii.com
password: XXXXXXX
You should install and activate the plugin in order to display advertisement. Before making payment, advertiser must approve location of the banner. The banner will be shown on your site when you add special code to your web- address (for example: http://www.vwclubofhawaii.com/?adv_test=1). It means, that visitors will see the banner only if it is approved and payment made.
To get installation instruction for your site type pass to: http://docs.bevestoagency.com/wp_install
To activate your site you have to enter the code: XXX-XXX-XXX
What way of payment is suitable for you?
I check out the site, and find out I have to install a plugin on my site to get paid. Ok this is way to fishy, time to Google Bevesto Agency.
The number one result for BevestoAgency.com is at article from atpeaz.com, and what are the keywords in the google result, SCAM WARNING! If you want to read the full article from @Peaz2.0, click here.
I’m bummed, I really thought I was going to sell another ad. Oh well, I guess i’ll stick to adsense ads.
Like the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
December 14th, 2011 at 4:36 am
These scammers targeted my blog, too. This banner ad scam is tricky because it seems legit at first. But needing to install a plugin immediately raises red flags.
December 15th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Thanks for commenting! I read your “Video Game Pre-Order Madness”, that’s awesome! I had a gamefly account which was sucking me dry, I think I’m going to try out your system.