I happened to come across an article in The South China Morning Post (global media yeah) titled “Huge explosion in online romance scams in Hong Kong in 2018.”
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Lee Gomes, technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, does a bit of investigative journalism on one of the more charming opportunities brought to us via the world wide web.
That’s a sarcastic “charming” btw.
The opportunity: writers wanted. “To generate original content for websites. ”
Why? So the sites will rank high on search engines, earning ad dollars for their owners.
Gomes’ article focuses on the clutter aspect. “Legitimate information . . . risks being crowded out by junky, spammy imitations.”
What bothers me a lot more is that these people are scamming writers. The guy Gomes talked to, for instance, offers $100 for fifty 500-word articles. Cheap s.o.b.
25,000 words later — I bet you’d never even see your money.
