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July 4, 2009I am speaking of those current large ads for Get a Green Card, Come to the U.S., and so on that are displayed on Yahoo email pages. What they are doing is asking for money to do something that is offered free by the government. They are even asking for money to get you into the U.S. Immigration lottery program for the year 2006, which I believe is closed. This is an exceedingly shady operation, if not illegal.
I am speaking of those current large ads for Get a Green Card, Come to the U.S., and so on that are displayed on Yahoo email pages. What they are doing is asking for money to do something that is offered free by the government. They are even asking for money to get you into the U.S. Immigration lottery program for the year 2006, which I believe is closed. This is an exceedingly shady operation, if not illegal.
Horaayy..there are 2 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Yahoo! has to make money. My ads are regarding credit scores and mortgages, not green cards. Apparently they have cookies in our systems.
I don’t click on the links, ever.
There is probably an advertising broker who buys the space and then sells the space to the shady businesses like the one you mentioned. Newspapers and broadcast media use brokers to buy and sell advertising space and time and I am sure the same is true with the big internet providers.
Yahoo should be more responsible for the content it’s brokers sell, but there many layers of BS between Yahoo and the ad your are concerned about.
I have ad blocking and popup blockers so I never see any of the crap, or at least very little of it.