What is a Traffic Scam?
A traffic scam is designed to give a false sense that you can spend any amount of money and you will magically begin to get high quality traffic. This cannot be any further from the truth. These scams are designed to bring you fake hits, popup, popunder and proxy based traffic. The worst quality you can imagine and none will ever yield a sale. Below you will see a list of the above items and what they actually are.
Popups These are ads that rudely popup into a surfers face when they are browsing or surfing the web. These were widely used in the 90’s and now have been ported into rollover or flying ads that again are very intrusive to a surfer.
Popunders These types of ads are a bit more sneakier as they do not appear until all browsers are closed and there is an advertisement sitting on your desktop, again very intrusive.
Fake hit machines Yes, these exist and most of these traffic scams use them in a massive way. They setup scripts to change the referrer of a faked hit to make it appear like it is real and coming from somewhere.
Proxy hits This is by far the dirtiest tactic of them all. Server proxy lists are put...