Potential SCAM Faucet PTC Site Network !
During my research for you guys to bring you reliant, tested and legit ways of receiving free crypto i stumbeled around a website "bankingbux.com" and they offer really good rewards and payouts from their PTC Ads.
So at first for those who are not familiar with the term PTC:
"Paid to click (PTC) is an online business model that draws online traffic from people aiming to earn money from home. PTC websites act as middlemen between advertisers and consumers; the advertiser pays for displaying ads on the PTC website, and a part of this payment goes to the viewer when they view the advertisement."
Sounds good till here, so i started testing this site. In their Terms of Service (TOS) they state:
"For request the first payment you need to click 100 advertisement and you need to get 10 active referrals."
So i started from there and generated the 100 Clicks wich took me about 10 Minutes for 2 Days. The Ten active referrals was also very easy with using free Windscribe VPN. So i met all requirements and requested the payout. And guess what:
I also tried to open a support request, but there was no answer for two weeks allthoug they state that answer will be provided within 48 hours.
So i had to come to the conclusion that we have a scam here, not only to generate clicks for the advertisers but also to trick you in upgrading your account for 10 $ a month. I am pretty sure that there will be no payout aswell once you upgraded.
With those informations i decided to dig a little deeper and i found a network of pontential SCAM PTC Sites. Here are the Domains i have found till now:
Bankingbux.com
Emeraldbux.com
Conbux.com
Obisbux.com
Bitcoinclix.net
Bitcoinptc.top
So lets start to analyze them:
1. The Look
The Sites have a different look and feel but they all offer reward rates wich are too good to be true and very low payout limits:
So they seem quite different but things change when we look at the next point on our list:
2. The Terms of Service
and here we can find all signs of a Network of sites with only the purpose of scamming your time and your crypto, because they have basicially all the same TOS with at most points the exact same wording:
Bankingbux.com:
Emeraldbux.com:
Orbisbux.com:
Conbux.com:
Bitcoinclix.net:
Bitcoinptc.top:
3. Review Sites
All of the sites have a bad reputation with almost all users calling it a scam. There are plenty of reviews wich guide you simly not to use this sites:
Trustpilot
Bankingbux.com:
mrsalkaly: "they are a scam.. don't fell for them"
jepoy: "bad scammer, waste of time"
Emeraldbux.com:
rj abu: "scam dont´t waste time"
jean bring: "they will lie to you, scam you and eprieve you off your money, i am glad i contacted astute rec0very, they played a major role in getting back my money and blacklisting emeraldbux!! please stay away from emeraldbux"
Orbisbux.com:
feel the nature: "totally scam"
sam karantin: "SCAM, don't waste your time with this ."
Conbux.com:
No reviews yet
Bitcoinclix.net:
turgay senturk: "Full of liers. SCAM stay away."
cortona: "Dont Use This at all Its a Scam... Not Paying.."
Bitcoinptc.top:
Mehedi Hasan Irfat: "Scam Scam Scam. It is Very Bad Site."
Dehe Beto: "scammmmmm, dont register or sing up on this site"
On top of that all of the sites are registered with namesilo.com using privacyguardian, wich protects the whois information of the real registar for example:
Here is how privacyguardian.org advertises their service:
4. Conclusion
It is very obvious that those websites only purpose is to scam other people. So please do not invest any time or money on those sites.
In case you ar looking for secure and proven ways to gain a little bit of extra crypto, please check out my other posts:
Earning Crypto with Play-to-Earn Plattform Womplay
Earning Free Crypto with Coinbase Earn
Earning Bitcoin by Daily Steps & Games in sMiles App
If you have any recommendations for a free service to test or a scam site to be added on this list, feel free to write me in the comments or write me an E-Mail: thefreecryptoguy@gmail.com
