hi.. I just wanted to let you know about a guy um.. well so called internet marketer Ben Hames. He knocked me on skype & asked for a favor. He requested me to send 50 clicks solo ads to an affiliate link. My solo ads list is only gets free offers but I wanted to help him. Well… I want to help everybody.
Anyway, I sent him the traffic but he was supposed to send them back to me but he didn’t. Just noticed that he removed me from skype. I asked about him to some well known community & found that he is a dirty guy. Spammer, Scammer whatever you call.
I want to tell you that this guy is pretty much the most unprofessional internet marketer I’ve ever met. So be careful about him & making any deal with him. I can guarantee you that you ain’t gonna get what he promised to do.
Sorry for the different kinda post. I only try to share information to my blog visitors but I do think this post going to help few people in future.
P.S. If you want proof of my claim then contact me privately. Already spent enough of my energy. Lets get productive.
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Towhid Zaman
Serial entrepreneur and the founder of Yellow Bear Media LLC, a Dhaka based digital marketing agency. He also runs Adaptive Domains where he is working with private investors to increase Adaptive Domains portfolio. Towhid can be followed on social media at Twitter, +Google and Facebook.
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Thanks for the warning Towhid. We need more people like you to take action and warn people of these types of low life trolls. There’s far to many of these snakes online hurting our industry and making it hard for honest marketers to make a buck. Anyway, thanks again! We do appreciate it.
I hate when people like Ben get away with what they are doing. I find it so shameful that some people don’t deliver on time and don’t communicate properly with buyers.
Ben Hames confessed about his own crime at his blog: http://boostimskills.com & this is very serious situation for internet marketers.
Solo ads business is becoming very popular because you can just use a pen name & make some quick cash very fast. People are jumping into THIS game for only money, they don’t care about reputation.
I hope my post saves at least a single people from getting scammed.
>> People are jumping into THIS game for only money, they don’t care about reputation. <<
Not all, Towhid. I'm a solo ad vendor myself and I'm all about reputation. It's much easier and stress-free to just simply do ethical work and make honest money online.
But I have to agree with you about this Ben Hames guy. I met him from one of the Skype channels that we're both a member of… I was supposed to do a swap with him on the 9th of Jan. I sent him 500 unique clicks and he sent back 0.
He told me he was gonna send for me in the morning because it's already late night in his country.. while I told him I'm gonna send now because I had an open mailing slot.. and then he kept bugging me if I had already sent the email as if he's in a hurry or something. Once I told him the email was sent.. he immediately stopped replying.
Then the next day, I asked one of my marketer buddies to add Ben as Skype contact just to see if he would respond. As we expected, he responded fast to my friend and immediately tried to sell him a solo ad.
And then another guy by the name of Rob Author / Website Traffic Guy (skype id: cbvault) contacted me and offered to do a 1000 click swap.. which never mailed for me as well. Before I sent an email to my list for this guy, I opted in to his squeeze page and saw later in his Aweber email's footer that his company name was "Boost Your IM Skills". That's how I know Rob Author and Ben Hames are the same person.
I would suggest you do some research on people you just met first time online, or even better, ask other marketers for feedback before you start dealing with them in order to avoid these kinds of scams going on.
Thanks for the comment Angelo. Yep, I know there is still good peeps like you 🙂
But you gotta agree with me that the amount of scammer increasing day by day.
By the way, Can you send me your skype id via my contact form?
Would love to connect with you 🙂
We should start the “Ben Hames Exposed” forum. The guy is about as sleazy as they come.
Not only did he waste my time and money on a deal he screwed me on, I recently got word from two well known internet marketers that they, too, had heard bad things about Hames from others. One had even been burned in… yep, you guessed it… a solo ad swap! Sound familiar?
So that’s three of us who have had direct, personal bad experience with Ben Hames. It probably means there are 30 more people out there like us. Or 300. Who knows?
Good for you, Towhid, for having the gumption to post what you know about Ben Hames, scammer.
Sorry to see you fell for the same trap. Its really frustrating to see some people trying to make money by ripping of honest people’s hard earned money. I can only home this post comes to people’s attention & they deal with caution next time.
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Unfortunately, count me as another victim! I experienced with what others have posted above….Ben (Benjamin) Hames is a SCAMMER and a complete douchebag. I purchased a website and email business from him for $2200 on Flippa and he took my money, sent 20% of the business collateral, then wouldn’t respind to emails or skype. I had to file a complaint with Flippa and file a lawsuit against him and his LLC (Web Boost, LLC). I think we need to create a website so that no one else fall prey to this sleazeball.
Hi,
Just to confirm this blog post, Benjamin Hames is a scam artist and he owes me over $900 and because of me he has deleted his Facebook account which I’m sure he will open one under another name.
Beware of this person and any aliases he might concoct.
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