Sep 24, 2001 02:21 PM
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Ok, I think the title pretty much says it all to be honest but I'll carry on anyway.
Treeloot.com is an American site which basically promises the Earth and gives you absolutely nothing in return. You'll recognise its banners if not its name - they're the ones which invite you to say ''Shock The Monkey and win $50'' and have a monkey sliding up and down the banner. Of course just click anywhere on the banner and you'll be taken to the site - this is where your misgivings should begin - already they are scamming you into thinking you are playing some kind of game - the $50 turning out to be $50 in ''bananabucks'' the site's own currency. You are then invited to register and the first bunch of adverts get thrown in your face, giving you the option to sign up for this that and the other whilst registering. Ignore this and get on with the site, but beware because they with sneakily uncheck all the boxes but leave one checked to trap unwary site users into submitting their details to a site they were not interested in. This is where your spam will begin...
Once in treeloot.com you'll get to the 'game'. You are presented with a graphic displaying a rather large ''Money Tree'' and must click around it to win money - not real money you understand buy bananabucks which are worthless. I'll tell you why worthless later. So you click about the tree which is basically a graphic a jpeg being told you are getting warmer to the big prize etc. You have 15 minutes to do this before your time runs out and you get to play again or redeem your bananabucks. If the prize existed you'd have a cat in hell's chance of finding the right pixel - and I do not even thik it exists, well at least not on the tree, its just randomly distributed occasionally - your clicks are worthless. Anyway you've played the dumb game, collected a bunch of bananabucks and you want to redeem them. Off you toodles to the redmption centre - more adverts along the way eventually getting there. You 'll be amazed ayt the goodies you can find here.
Your banana bucks can buy you...more adverts!! Yes, you can BUY spam here and the kind of free offers which land unsolicited in your inbox daily! Or a treeloot monkey. Congratulations on just wasting loads of your time. You probably played several times to amass as many bananabucks as possible, picked up several pieces of spam on the way and believed you could win money here. You will feel like a fool and if you go there and use this site after reading this opinion then a fool is exactly what you are. Utter nonsense and one of the biggest and most widely subscribed to scams going. There's a sucker born every minute and this site draws them like flies - be warned.
