As someone that places advertisements on my websites fairly often, I get an email once or twice a week that promises $2,000 per week if I put up the company’s banner. Most time, it’s obvious as the company promising banner payment of such large amounts would NOT do that (e.g. Mashable, Reuters). There are a few different websites that try to showcase whenever these new scams start up; I usually end up sending these scammers the fantastic Geek Mamas piece. IP Locations has done something similar for the Mashable banner placement scam.
I just received an email purportedly (but obviously not) from Men’s Journal, which I have replicated below. Do NOT fall victim to these scams. Legitimate banner companies pay much, much worse based on our awful amount of traffic. 🙂
Hello,
I hope you are doing well.
The Arena Media Brands, LLC and MEN’S JOURNAL are registered trademarks of The Arena Media Brands, LLC. I am reaching out as a contributor associated with Men’s Journal General Companies.
We are interested in placing advertisements on your website, including side banners, header placement, and footer posts.
For your reference, I have attached a sample showing the type of advertisement placement we are looking for.
We would like to run the advertisement for 40 days, and our current budget for this campaign is $2600. However, we are open to adjusting the budget according to your requirements and website value.
We can make payments via PayPal, Binance, or USDT, depending on your preferred method.
Looking forward to your response and hopefully working together.
Thanks & Regards
Below is a list of the email addresses from these scammers. If you wish to, go and leave a comment with similar scammers and I’ll update when I can. What other Banner Placement Scam offers have you received?
armanitalevender@gmail.com