OnlineIncomeBux.com
Complaint 135003 Details

  • Date Occurred: 07/13/2014
  • Reported Damages: $3.74
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The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

International boundaries

I recently joined onlineincomebux.com and I had posted a question to this forum section regarding why the Rented Referrals page had changed only early this morning, Pacific Daylight Time (around 1am-2am July 13, 2012). I did not get any answer as to whether or not rented referrals would go back to being infinite / unlimited expiration time again. The rented referrals are now $0.25 and expire 60 days later. I had asked if this change would be permanent as it was one of the main reasons I joined this site was because rented referrals were non-expiration. Though the monetary damages are minimal, it is a good thing because anyone investing money into this scam is going to get absolutely screwed out of their investments.

Below is a copy of what I posted to their forum for the first time joining their website. You can find the original post at this thread 'Forum > Suggestions, Comments and Feedback > My thoughts on onlineincomebux.com'.

(Begin Quote)
My thoughts on onlineincomebux.com

Posted by ootws 2 days ago
Firstly I would like to say I like how things are going here. Another thing I like here is that REFERRALS DO NOT EXPIRE and DIRECT REFERRALS ARE UNLIMITED! Those are two things that make this site most worth while so even standard members can earn. Those are two PTC qualities I have been looking for for a very, very long time. The community here also seems to be more driven to work at PTC when they can see there is some sort of gain being achievable.

I would also like to thank the support for adding the $1 for a direct referral when my account was not credited right away. Glitches happen and that is understandable so there is no question that the support responds come fairly quick here on this website and that onlineincomebux.com cares about their clients!

The pay wait time could be shorter, but I understand these are early times and things are developing as time goes on so I suspect this will change in time.

I have one suggestion though about spelling and grammar. There are a few things on the website here and there that could use some minor editing such as spelling, punctuation and words that are not the correct English words to be used in certain areas of the website. It just makes things more professional when everything is in proper English, right? Just my two cents worth to help improve the website. :)

If there is help wanted I offer myself to assist.

Regards,
OOTWS

ootws [Canada]
Posts: 1
Joined: 2012/07/10
member

Posted by admin 2 days ago
send us support ticket and tell us where do you see words that are not the correct English
thanks
(End Quote)

Now after this comment, I had made a comment about how I felt about things with onlineincomebux.com revised. There is really no need to post it however because I am explaining it all below what I covered in the post. I was civil, I was not rude and there was no reason for deletion of the post as it was simply an inquisitive forum topic I wanted some answers to. I did not curse, say foul things or anything of such a nature to regard my forum topic as inappropriate.

Now I look on the forum today again, and my topic had been DELETED WITH NO RESPONSE from the Admin. Excuse me, but are you serious? They delete topics they do not wish to answer EVEN THOUGH people like myself donated time to assist their website with spelling, punctuation and grammar? Then we all got a message in our Message Center the same day saying that rented referrals were lowered from a dollar to 25 cents, are you kidding me? Of course people can't afford to pay a dollar ($1.00) for one referral because they can't make enough to even get a dollar because the ad payout is so low. Now however referrals are 25 cents with an expiration of 60 days. This was their compensation excuse because they knew people would not pay a whole $1.00 for only one rented referral. Fortunately the recycle and delete only cost $0.05 to recycle and $0.10 to delete or this would really be obvious madness.

In spite the recycling and deleting of referrals being fairly cheap cost, there has been very shady activity going on there in the past days since I signed up. They (the admin) told people, that rented referrals would be ours for life and that they would not expire ever. I wish I had screen shots to prove this, but I don't because I never expected them to keep changing things so quickly within a 4 day period. They told us that no rental fees would ever be paid to tie over rented referrals ever. They went back on their word and expect people to stay there trying to earn. When I posted in my 'My Thoughts About onlineincomebux.com' topic in the 'Suggestions, Comments & Feedback' forum thread, I said I would very much like to help their website because of the fact that rented referrals did not expire, that I liked what I saw there and how the support response times were so good. Unfortunately over this short 3-4 day period being a member to their website has shown me that they are in fact flat out scamming. The website simply is not holding to their promises and falsely advertising to lure people into the scam.

It is my opinion that the Administrators are greedy. Since the rented referrals have changed and the ad rates have not, there really is not much way to make anything from their site anymore. This is a horrible change and I'll tell you this right now, many of their clients are going to leave. What has been done there is a big blow to the potential of onlineincomebux.com and the website is a total disgrace to the PTC industry.

The fact that I helped point out some things on their site that needed correction to make it more professional and they deleted my forum topics is simply a slap in the face with the Terms of Service saying, '10. We remain the right to change these terms of service at any time without prior consent or notice.' For starters it's not correct English to use the term, 'we remain the right' (which I sent them in a Support Ticket as admin requested me to which didn't make any sense to me at all), but correct English would be, 'we reserve the right'. Why are things being pushed to support tickets and not posted to the forum for the general public to see is beyond me. I now refuse to help them anymore volunteering my time because this is not a very sincere operation going on here. Basically they're saying that they can change anything they want, when they want, however they want and there isn't a damn thing you or anyone can do about it with no regard for the clients who visit their site.

I strongly advise to take note and pay attention very closely to their Terms of Service because I had a feeling something like this would happen and I was not far off, but I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt even though the registrar information was a little sketchy. Going back on their word is a bad, bad thing and when they delete posts that are legitimate questions which should be addressed publicly on the forum, that is a huge red flag that something bad is taking place.

In fact I can prove it is not trustworthy by another source @ http://www.scamadviser.com/ and search for this website's domain name there. It has a score of 38% and has had that score for some time. The domain registration information is also sketchy. I smell bad things in the air around onlineincomebux.com. A true professional administrator would not delete legitimate posts unless there were 1.) something to hide, or 2.) they have been caught in the act of something and don't want it to be a public discussion. Note also that the Message Center stores our messages and they can not be delete. I suspect prying eyes are watching what we say or do so they may be able to manipulate the PTC system to their advantage. Be aware.

I'm sorry, but what has been done there and how I have seen things evolve as well as the dishonesty that has surfaced, I cannot trust the website. Others may make their own decision, but as I said if my posts that are legitimate and fair get deleted, I don't put it past them to do it to others on a constant basis.

Below I have pasted the record of the support ticket requested by the admin to send in proper English corrections. The sections will be encased by hyphen lines

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OnlineInco?meBUX

Add to contacts
To [Personal Information Removed]
From: OnlineIncomeBUX ([email protected])
Sent: July-13-12 1:32:31 AM
To: [Personal Information Removed]
Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days.
Wait, it's safe!
OnlineIncomeBUX
Your Real Online Income
thanks
i jsut changed it
do you have more Spelling & Grammar Corrections on my site?

In reply to:
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I found this as well which needs correcting:


Found on Add Funds page:

VERY IMPORTENT!!
If you add funds through PayPal and funds does not appear immediately in your account
Please DO NOT open dispute!
Sometimes money is not added automatically, and we must do it manually
Just Do not be panic

PLEASE DO NOT USE UNVERIFIED PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO ADD FUNDS!!! OR ELSE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED.WE ARE VERY STRICT TO THESE RULES!

Chane to:

IMPORTANT NOTICE!
If you add funds through PayPal and funds do not appear immediately in your account, DO NOT open a dispute! Sometimes money is not added automatically and we must do it manually so please do not panic.

DO NOT USE UNVERIFIED PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO ADD FUNDS OR YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED! WE ARE VERY STRICT TO THESE RULES!

Hope this helps.

Regards,
OOTWS

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OnlineInco?meBUX

Add to contacts
To [Personal Information Removed]
From: OnlineIncomeBUX ([email protected])
Sent: July-13-12 1:39:22 AM
To: [Personal Information Removed]

Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days.
Wait, it's safe!
OnlineIncomeBUX
Your Real Online Income
thanks again!
if you see more mistakes just tell me ok?

In reply to:
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I found a few more grammar, spelling and punctuations that need correction. I hope this is helpful to you.


On the Upgrade Account page:

VERY IMPORTENT!!
If you just paid for upgrade through PayPal and you are not got upgraded immediately
Please DO NOT open dispute!
Sometimes It Is Not Done automatically, And We Have To Do It manually
Just Do not be panic.

PLEASE DO NOT USE UNVERIFIED PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO UPGRADE!!! OR ELSE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED.WE ARE VERY STRICT TO THESE RULES!


Change to:

IMPORTANT! NOTICE!
If you just paid for an upgrade through PayPal and you have not been upgraded immediately, please DO NOT open a dispute!
Sometimes upgrades are NOT done automatically and we have to activate your upgrade manually.
Do not panic if you do not see your upgrade instantly.

PLEASE DO NOT USE UNVERIFIED PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO UPGRADE OR YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED! WE ARE VERY STRICT WITH THESE RULES!


Again, I hope this is helpful to you folks. Have a great day!

Regards,
OOTWS
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Anyhow, I hope this report is helpful and will lead to the shutdown of this dishonest organization. Thank you for your time. If you require contact me please feel free and I will provide any more information I can.

Sincere regards,
Jaret Bartsch

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