Everyone loves money, but making it online isn’t all that easy if you have morals. If you don’t, this article will give you some great tips to make quick money online. Before I start I need to state that I don’t condone any of these methods, and they are used at your own risk. I don’t take responsibility for any damage you may do.
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Set up a Proxy Server
Set up a web site that serves as a Proxy, so people can browse blocked sites at work, and kids can browse blocked sites at school. As an ICT teacher I know kids want nothing more than to have access to all their favorite game and social networking sites, and many of them know about proxies. The most common script I see when I am blocking students is: CGI Proxy, it is great because it allows people to use sites that require a log in. Here is an auto installer for it. CGI Proxy Auto installer. You will need to have an ad, probably and Adsense block in the header, so ads are shown when people browse. The main drawback of this method is that if your proxy site does become popular it will probably be blocked by school Internet servers. So if you wanted to try this method out, I wouldn’t shell out any money on a domain name, or expensive hosting.
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Create a Screensaver with Embedded Adware
Create a screen saver that bundles adware (Zangocash), so whenever someone installs the Screensaver, you make affiliate money. You need to upload your Screensaver to as many Screensaver sites as possible. For a full write up on the details of this method, read: Blue Hat SEO’s How To Make a $100 per Day
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Dodgy P2P Sports Links
Set up a blogger account using an anonymous email account, then use it to share p2p links to live sporting events. I have seen people earn great money fast using it. It works particularly well for sharing live Cricket using the software Sopcast. The Indian Sub Continent love p2p links for cricket matches, particularly when there are big games involving India, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. You can use Sopcast to embed a p2p media player showing the channel with the cricket on it, then surround it with lots of Adsense ads. I have never seen Google remove any of these blogs, nor have I heard of any Adsense account being suspended for doing this. Someone tried to sell a successful attempt using this technique on Sitepoint, and he showed his earnings for the period of the cricket world cup of $1200 US. So timing is key here!
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Online Poker
I love poker, and playing online, I cashed out $800 for about 4 months of on and off play, which is more money than I have made through anything else online. The key to making money with online poker when you are starting out is to take advantage of the various signup offers and bonuses. The idea is that poker rooms will give you a cash incentive bonus, where if you play a certain amount of hands they will give you free cash. In their minds you are a beginner so you will probably make them more money in the process, but if you learn to play tight, and only play very good starting hands, and fold the rest you can clear good money with only an small amount of skill. As playing tight requires a lot of patience, once you get the hang of it you can speed things up by playing 3-4 tables at once. Do some research for free poker bonus’s, and you will find plenty of sites and forums with advice to get you started in the evil world of online gambling.
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A MySpace or Facebook Resource Site
Levi from Internet Marketing Sucks has a great plan to make money by setting up a MySpace resource site. He even provides a script and instructions that will help you on your way. It’s not particularly evil, and rather crafty, but it makes the list anyway.
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Set Up a Private Torrent Site and Tracker
Recent news about raids on the owner of oink’s house would suggest that this is a very risky business, especially if you live in a country that will police such activities. The torrent scene is massive, as such there is great money to be made by those that are crazy enough. The idea is to make it private, then set up a scheme where you have “donations” to pay for your server, and donators get extra upload credit. Also have lots of pay per click advertising and you will be away, making plenty of cash. But I would make sure your cash heap is large enough to fight a legal battle if you get caught.
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Search Engine Arbitrage
Arbitrage is where you buy something for a certain value, with the intention of selling it on for a greater value. You can use search engine marketing to buy traffic from one network, Google Adwords, then send that traffic to a landing page that has advertising on it for another network, Yahoo. The idea is to create a landing page with very little actual content, and format it so that ads appear to be content. Then your unsuspecting visitor may click ads thinking it is content. You will need to test different networks and keywords, but you can make good money using this method. It is purely evil though as it fills the net with rubbish sites.
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Set Up A Network of Scraper Sites
A scraper site is a web site that pulls content from other sources, for example you could have a site that pulls the top 10 stories from the rss feeds of digg, reddit, delicious. It’s probably a good idea to use keywords to narrow down your results to a certain topic. Then plant lots of advertising around the content, especially Adsense. As you don’t have any real content you are never likely to get many inbound links, so to rank, you will need to build up a network of sites, then link them to each other to help your sites rank in search engines. You could combine this method with 7 to create some seriously evil sites.
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Volunteer At a Directory Site Like DMOZ
Then takes bribes to list certain sites. Or email people who are on the list and tell them that if they don’t pay you, you will boot them off the directory. People do this, believe me. Read about the DMOZ Shoemoney Extortion.
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Become a Spam Marketer
Everybody hates spam, but some people obviously open it from time to time. Get creative with your subject lines, and spam away. It is illegal in some countries so be careful. Basically the idea is to find some pay per click advertising scheme that allows you to advertise via email, or include a link from the email that has advertising on it. You will want to find some tools to automate this process, but I’m not telling you where to find them. Another form of Spam that seems to be very popular is Wordpress spam. All you need to do is set up a landing page on a dodgy domain that sells dodgy pharmaceutical products or any form of ppc or ppa advertising and spam away, automating comment posting on blogs that link to your landing page. It’s surprising how many sites don’t block spam properly.
I know most of this stuff is pure evil, but people actually make good money using these techniques. Ok, now go and spread some evil.
Joost
LOL, I can’t believe you posted this
Just curious: p*rn is not a money-maker anymore?
Doug Rosbury
Some day I will find a situation to suit my sensibilities, For now there’s nothing on the internet that I feel comfortable with. I,m glad to have the status quo. It serves me very well. No
website for me. Anyone who wants my photos to grace their site is welcome to contact me.—Doug
Simon
@ Joost… I glad that it made you laugh, it was actually intended as a bit of a joke… “what sort of money could I make if I had no morals! “. I was looking over my content the other day and thought I needed something a bit more spicy, nothing like a bit of controversy to spark interest. And yes I do believe there is good money in the p*rn market, I thought about including that on the list, but decided against it in the end…I didn’t want to offended anyone!
@ Doug : thanks for the comment.
Sucker
Evil, but sometimes much more fun than most legitimate money making methods
Steven Snell
Another nice post Simon. Your evil ideas would make John Chow proud.
Jerke Wadde
I’m having a hard time finding a decent anonymous email service, though.
Devon Lumsden
I think a good proxy would get heaps of money
great article
William F
Wow, a tough topic handled really well. My question is how can I make some money with a site that generates a lot of hate mail? We poke fun at fatties and they don’t like it. There’s got to be a way to use all that anger to market or generate revenue?
Jason A Clark
Well, we know someone somewhere is making money with these things because we see them everywhere.
I think I’ll pass.
michael
Hey, the ideas are very good but i will not agree with you that making money online is not easy…As i am into home based business it is very easy to make money online.
Dwayne Charrington
Maybe I should try my hand at spam. Anyone want to buy some cheap Viagra? haha.
Great post by the way though. Amused me a fair bit.
Richard
Thank you very much for this great information, I think more people
should share their opinions and information too.
Pete White
Do all of them from Starbucks for an extra evil affect.
Chauncy
I’m surprised. A lot of these really aren’t all that evil.
King Jim
yes its true,
sometimes having good morals doesn’t make you
any money, nice guys or gals finish last.
Very informative article.
MyIkram
I dont think those tips is EVIL, may consider it as a grey hat..
Anyway, marvellous tips !
playstation game cheats
These tactics might be low down, dirty, annoying or questionable. I don’t know about evil. They are unlikely to get anyone killed or let the Darklord out of his prison to take over he world
HR Software
The list is good and contains very good information. The only tactic I would agree with is the proxy server (if you have tons of bandwidth on a dedicated or shared server) and creating a social facebook/myspace resource site. I wouldn’t even go near adware or spam for too many reasons to list.
wahb.biz
These thing are evil but an effective way to earn online.
mark from tool vinyl
oh, c’mon…it’s not THAT evil….(except maybe the proxy thing)
Alex
Evil ways to make money. One thing i was wondering about yesterday was this #9. I saw some sites on dmoz in few categories and they were there but they shouldn’t have been there according to DMOZ standards. Well back door entry methods have always been there, only thing i didn’t think about DMOZ that way. I am not saying most links are like that but some of them i saw were dodgy.
Alex
I read about #7 and this is the principle on which getgoogleadsfree works. I purchased it and even google doesn’t mind if you use such landing pages provided your pages are clean and have some content and not like classifieds. Only problem is how do u sell advertising on that landing page as you will constant advertising to pay for the advertising on google. I don’t think its evil it is what offline advertisers do in magazines , newspapers , road- side boards etc.
Synovate Paid Surveys
This is a pretty good list – I have read about the screensaver with adware one before. Another “black hat” tactic that could probably make the list is the practice of cookie stuffing. Although I have not used it myself, I have read on some black hat forums that people are making pretty good affiliate commissions with this one as long as they are careful about it and manage to “fly under the radar”. Amazon seems to work well with this tactic because they are popular and many different kinds of people buy from there, while Clickbank is also used because apparently they rarely ban cookie stuffers.
iceman9
does this get sites from being banned in the search engine? with these evil money making online?
Simon
No, the oposite acutally Iceman, Google sends this page over 1,000 hits every month.
ecommerce website software
Very funny stuff. While some of the stuff is shadier than others, all in all they’ve given me a few ideas for other legitimate marketing methods as well…thanks!
Pandu from Profit blogging
I like this post. Evil or not it depends on the angle of point of view. I think, as far the search engine couldn’t find you cheating them, it’s not evil way. And for me right now, all the ways to make money in fast one, should be worth. But to do it, I must consider it thoroughly.
whistlergirl from Toronto Property
Some of these suggestions are indeed evil. I’m amazed you wrote this as the big G might actually look at you more closely now. hahahaha….
Ray from Forex Currency Trading
Definitely agree with #9.
I’m starting to think there are many DMOZ editors that are biased specifically to their affiliations.
Not so much for non-profit organizations, but definitely when it comes to business.
#10 is evil. No need for explanation!
I don’t think the rest are that “evil” though. Pop-under ads are evil, that should be listed!
kouji from haiku poems examples
some of these are evil indeed. :O
Michael
Fantastic post!
Money is very important, especially when you hate your job, you have a huge home loan, or are entering a recession (just like whats happening at the moment lol). Thanks for the tips 
kevin from Paydayloans
I like the myspace idea. Looks actualy good. The other ones seem like more trouble than they are worth as far as making money.
Justin from Adventure Blog
I must say these are some pretty good ideas. I personally like the idea of setting up a proxy. I could go drop off a few flyers around town at the schools and I am sure the kids would be all over it.
Any suggestions on how to set one up?
Nick from whiplash compensation claims
Proxy sites are everywhere these days. You only have to scan through any of the main SEO forums to see loads of them in peoples sig links. With so many of them about it must be quite difficult to make good money from them.
partoba from Busby SEO Test Blog
I’m curious about to be DMOZ editor. I think if this is really happen, it’ll be the best way to make money…in evil way!
Kaiser from Compare Car Insurance Quotes
Well, when i first started to learn how to make money online, i went down the wrong path from the start. I tried spamming and it worked for a while but it was too much work. I later decided that if im going to put in alot of effort into something, i might as well put that effort into building a legit website.
Brian from Minnesota Car Insurance
I want to comment on the first method of setting up Proxy server service.
Internet Explorer will be comming out with what they call “porn mode” for the next release of IE. It basically makss your IP address from the websites you browse. In this way, you can safely browse any website in a stealth mode.
I’m not sure of all the uses, however many people want privacy and don’t like the fact that others can pry into their browsing patterns.
David
I have read about the screen saver with ad ware one before. Another “black hat” tactic that could probably make the list is the practice of cookie stuffing. Although I have not used it myself, I have read on some black hat forums that people are making pretty good affiliate commissions with this one as long as they are careful about it and manage to “fly under the radar”.
Ken from Slow Computer
Let me make another suggestion. Trolling forums peddling affiliate sales. If you are going to try it, I recommend you go for the financial services niche.
Jayden Fellze
I would like to add newsletters to the list. Fortnightly or monthly newsletters can really boost your audience. People can be expected to sign up if the contents are informative.
Mathew from Best high yield certificate of deposit rates.
I think half or all of them could get you in trouble with either the advertiser or affiliate program. Some of them might cause problem with search engines so you would be making new sites all the time. Your better off doing it right in the long run.
ashley from ebay
Oh my goodness you had me falling off my seat laughing. I love the disclaimer you made as well. On a personal note, thank you for not including p*rn.
What
actually there isn’t nearly as much $ in porn anymore. The tube sites are taking a lot of business away from the industry.
Jake from How to make extra money
Ain’t nothing wrong with poker sites! Well, other then being at risk of the feds coming after you =(. The more evil a method is the less competition…
andy from Free Credit Report
Actually, many of these are possibly neutral tactics, at least only in the gray area depending on how you execute them…but when you get to 9 & 10 it’s just funny. I’m sure number 10 was really a joke, right? =P
andy from freeloans
The arbitrage is done by alot of sites. I see people do it on same ad network. They buy low paid clicks and have high paying ads. Some people do make money
Mexabet from Quality web directory
Interesting article! But I can’t get myself to involve in any of these activities. Good to know you don’t support any of these things.
badugi
You missed out e-wh*re
olly from Sun Awnings
Some great “dirty tricks” here – I wonder how many readers have actually started doing some of these? I wonder how many will get caught!
mark from Gold etf
Some interesting ideas on how to make money online. Not sure about some of them and if the ad companies would either.