What is Freegenday and how does it prevent online scams?

in #prevention7 years ago

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Freegenday.com, a website created in 2016, tries to spread information about scams, using a somewhat different approach.

This website is not a normal prevention site. We try to reach an audience that is highly vulnerable to scams, by ranking for keywords that have overwhelming numbers of scam and spam websites.

Classic prevention websites get their traffic by two general groups of people.

  1. People that actually inform themselves about the newest scams.
  2. People that recently got scammed, or - almost got scammed.

We try to rank on top of scammers in their own niches. Why and how?
We think that people that enter a query in their preferred search engine like "free PSN codes" are more vulnerable to getting scammed than people who enter "is it actually possible to get free PSN codes". The first query will display almost only scam and spam websites. The person searching for this will want to believe the scammers.

We try to rank on top of such queries and if the users visit our website, they will find information about the particular scam and more. To be able to rank we offer a lottery-based giveaway. It is completely free, we just have to show some ads.

The basic concept works like this:
-Users are entering queries that are filled with scams
-Users will click on our link
-We show a way to actually get "free[...]", if the user is willed to learn about some online scams.

  • The user has to register to participate(if he/she wants to win something. If he/she just wants information about scams, he/she can visit our blog).
    -The giveaway is split into parts. One is the giveaway and the other are articles about scams.

We hope we can make a difference and maybe we already have helped some people :)

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