The Truth About the Pay-Per-Install or PPI Scam

Have you heard about Pay Per Install or PPI for short? Or perhaps you already have, and you're interested in it. Ok, first let me explain what Pay Per Install or PPI is. It is a program where you are paid a small commission for each install that you helped achieved. Oh, and the program that people install must have that company's legit software included. Sounds easy enough! Best thing, you don't really need a website to do it!

The commission earned isn't big at a normal $0.15 per successfull install. And they only accept installs that happened in certain countries like the US, Canada and Europe. But wait, there seems to be real methods that could help you generate up to ten installs per day for each of them. That means you could potentially earn $1.50 a day. Hmm..it is looking a bit better. But wait, that is just for one software. If you did the same process for 100 different softwares, it could take your earning up to $150 per day!

Sounds to good to be true ? That is because it is. I apologize for getting you all excited, but I just wanted to show you what types of promises they make. Ok, now let's get down to business as I disect the entire process for you to understand what it really is and the hidden danger that many people do not know about it.

First of all, they require you to make sure that people installs their totally legit software. It is difficult to make people install softwares that they don't know much about so it is difficult. But there is a method around this. You could actually take one good software, and actually combine it with their "legit" software. And when the person installs the good software, that "legit" software will also get automatically installed without the person even knowing.

Sounds like a very complicated and cutting edge method? Actually it is so simple it might surprise you. Well, I am not going to teach you how to do it, I just wanted to let you know that you can really comb ine those two different softwares to appear as one. Ok, now think about this for a second. Why would they pay you to actually just install their softwares? What good will it bring them?

The answer is simple, because they stand to gain or earn more than the money they are paying you. But how I hear you ask? Because the truth is, their totally legit software turns out to be actually Ad-Ware and Spy-Ware. So when the unsuspecting victim installs them, the PPI company will actually earn money from the Ad-Ware, and then steal private information like credit card numbers and other private information through the Spy-Ware!

How would I know it? I tested it out of course. But instead of asking others install it, I tested it out on my own computer to test its authencity. Lucky for me, I had thought of the chance of it being a fake, and backed up my entire computer. After that, Ads appeared everywhere I went on the Internet, and my latest and updated Anti Spy-Ware pro gram detected Spy-Ware as well. But the Anti Spy-ware programm still couldn't cure my computer, which meant that it had to be formated.

And you were wondering how all those Viruses, Ad-Wares and Spy-Wares got distributed throughout the Internet? Here is your answer. Now I would also like to comment on the methods that they claim will help you get hundreds or downloads a day. It involves using Torrents. First, you look for very popular downloads, and then you download them and combine them with that so called "legit" software. Since it is already popular, once you re-upload it, it gets downloaded and installed so many times.

Now the method makes good sense. But I will tell you that it is now useless. Perhaps it was a very successful method before, but it doesn't work anymore. Why? To upload to Torrent sites, you need to create a Torrent file for that software. The Torrent file which is created automatically, will detect whether or not there is any harmful fi les in it. If there is, and you upload it, you will get banned from uploading at that site...forever!

So you see that this method is totally useless now. So never buy any e-books that promises to teach you how to get hundreds or thousands of downloads a day. I also recommend that you never use PPI, as you will only hurt others in the Internet. Well, if you still want to go ahead with it, I do have to warn you. If you are recognized by anyone, it could lead to a lawsuit against you! Hmm...doesn't sound too nice now does it? So my advice to you is please, do not take part in any of these PPI activities.

If you are still interested in doing PPI or you are just interested in learning more about it, please visit my website at bio section. You will learn some more about why PPI is now not as easy as it souunds. Remember, if it is not legal, it is never worth taking the risk that could damage you in the long run.

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The author is from Asia and has 4 years of experience in the Internet online business. The author is also a webmaster and owns a small Internet business. Visit one of the authors website Learn about other dangerous methods as well