Several weird tips for aspirant hucksters
January 29, 2014 11:29 PM   Subscribe

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet. How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web. His pitches generally fit in nicely with what have become the classics of the dubious-ad genre: tropes like photos of comely newscasters alongside fake headlines such as “Shocking Diet Secrets Exposed!”; too-good-to-be-true stories of a “local mom” who “earns $629/day working from home”; clusters of text links for miracle teeth whiteners and “loopholes” entitling you to government grants; and most notorious of all, eye-grabbing animations of disappearing “belly fat” coupled with a tagline promising the same results if you follow “1 weird old trick.”
posted by jaduncan (3 comments total)

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2 weird old tricks
posted by benzenedream at 11:34 PM on January 29, 2014


Oops, thanks. I'll contact the mods.
posted by jaduncan at 11:37 PM on January 29, 2014


This should be about Jesse Willms instead.
posted by Our Ship Of The Imagination! at 11:38 PM on January 29, 2014


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