Unethical, Unmentionable Money Makers!

Posted:Abigail Andrews – Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Firstly, I must point out I definitely DO NOT condone any of these methods of making money. I did however, find some of the interesting, quite funny and even ingenious ideas and I just had to share them with you. Here is my list of unethical ways to make money which I will continue to add to over the next few months.

Sell Celebrity Photographs

Live in a big city? Hang around at celebrity watering holes? Be on the look out for photos of celebrities. There's always someone online willing to pay for interesting ones - there are sites specifically for the buying/selling of photos. If you are lucky you may get the photo of the month, even year. If you snap the PM picking his nose, or the lead singer of a top band picking up a hooker you could earn yourself millions! Visit www.thesnitcherdesk.com

If you just like snapping and you have some bog standard photos, you can sell them to place like www.fotolia.co.uk

Paid to Petition

People are constantly petitioning their bosses, their politicians, the rest of the world. Some of those petitioners pay for people to join their cause. Signing up again and again and again has proven lucrative for some, particularly those who know how to hide their IP's with a proxy.

Scamming

There once was a guy who bought an email list of one million email addresses. He sent half of them a stock tip that a certain stock was going up, the other half got the same message predicting that the stock would go down. Obviously, 50% of them saw him proved right! He ignored the ones who saw him proved wrong and split this remaining 50% into two groups. Again, half got an email with another up prediction and the other half got the same email with a down prediction. He repeated a few times till he was left with about 15,000 people who saw him get it right several times in a row! They were obviously very impressed! He then invited them to pay $5,000 each for a seminar with him on picking stocks! :)

There are some many ways to scam people, chain letters, pyramid schemes, etc, people make so much money out of them every day!

Adult entertainment

Hmmmmmmm...... is this unethical?........debatable, but it's certainly RISCAYYYYY, however, if your not shy this could be for you. Dress up sexy in front of a web cam and adult webcam sites will pay you. Like chatting dirty? Pretend to be someone else and talk dirty over the internet? The online equivalent of the premium rate phone lines is where you can earn money all day just having laugh. I won't provide links - use a search engine and find them yourself. Perhaps this is a no for me but I am sure some of you would dare do it and you could make a packet!

Be your own Affiliate

Now this is very sneaky but you can actually be your own affiliate customer. If you have a website already and need a new TV, there is nothing stopping you go to your affiliate program like Affiliate Future and adding a relevant add to your site - even if your site is about vegetarianism, go add the advert for HD TV's just so you can click on the link and go to the site and buy that TV. Go apply for some credit cards and mortgages BUT do them through your own affiliate links and make a few quid a month. Sign up in as an affiliate in your wife/husband/dad's name to get around the occasional restriction that applications in the affiliates own name don't generate the commission.

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