Scam Alert: New Samantha Kobs Scam
Today I got yet another spam email from Mrs. Samantha Kobs. This time she’s crossed a very large line.
If selling advertising for insane prices on new sites wasn’t bad enough, she’s now offering a “business opportunity” that may or may not exist. The cost could very well bankrupt many WAHMs. Fortunately the website is not that well put together, so it’s unlikely that people will fall for it.
For $3,000 she’s offering a few free magazines (which we have yet to see exist and was to be released just last month), and a weak set up to sell these magazines. In return they get 30% commission on advertising they sell.
Here’s the major red flags that go up for us:
- No examples of the magazine and no proof it exists
While it was suppose to be released in June 2008, there is no real proof this magazine exists. Actually, I’ve now seen two different dates - June and July. In fact, I saw these two dates on the same page! There’s also no details on how it’s published, where it’s printed, and so on.
- Poorly designed and organized site
It’s hard to follow anything on the site, and it really is very poorly organized. Scattered general content is just stuffed here and there, and the home page is nothing but one big ad space. A professional, serious magazine’s website does NOT look like this.
- Too many ad spaces
In addition to selling ad space in this “magazine” and selling copies of it, she’s also selling ad space. There is NO reason for this many ad spaces since the magazine can’t be viewed online - unless of course your trying to swindle every dollar you can from wahms (see publications like “Parents” - even they use advertising sparely because their goal is subscriptions). Not to mention this site is very new, so to charge what she’s charging is a true rip-off.
- Known spammer
This person has used some pretty unethical (and illegal) tactics for building her mailing lists. I ended up with just 2 email addresses on her list, but others had several more. The addresses were made up or harvested from groups, message boards, and websites. What’s worse she KNEW what she was doing. She was TOLD this was illegal and unethical, but continued to spam people anyway. She still has yet to take one of my email addresses (one that was only used to accept payments and had to be harvested off a website). BIG mistake on her part, since I now know about her latest scam.
People, don’t fall for her scam. $3,000 is a lot of money to most WAHMs, and I can tell you right now you won’t get anything in return. Since everything is so poorly put together, I doubt many would fall for it, but I wanted to put this warning out there anyway. Do NOT give money to Samantha Kobs, KobsMedia, WahmWahm Magazine, or any of her other websites. She is a true scam artist and needs to learn how to be a professional, honest business woman.
Increasing in Him,
Kara
Topics: Unprofessional Business Acts |
July 15th, 2008 at 10:18 am
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July 17th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Yeah - here’s the last time we had to deal with her: Unprofessional Business Acts - Spamming & Email Harvesting