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here is a few tips.
1. all advertisements are nothing but trickery. no company needs to inform you about their product. we all know what is out there and if a product is good people know about it.
2. there is no easy and legal way to get rich. your best shot is getting lucky at the casino if you want big money fast. if you want to get paid for doing f@ck all then sell something illegal. or invent some crap product and sell it for more than it cost you to make it. or buy other people's products and sell them for more than you paid for it. this is all businesses do, it doesn't take a genius.
3. stop using twitter. go out and talk to people about you life and listen to them talk about theirs. you might actually meet a new friend or significant other. posting about your life online is lame and you are a huge loser if you do it. reading about other people's lives online is also super lame. and seriously, why would anybody care about you life? if you are lucky in life you will convince a few good friends and a girlfriend/boyfriend to care about your life and that is about it.
4. if there was some method of getting rich easily then why would somebody sell that method for money? they would just use the method themselves. seriously people, how do you not understand this logic? you don't even have to know anything to understand this, just some simple logic.

...these fake blog ads are showing up for numerous miscellaneous products that are scammish. "Cathy's Teeth" ad goes to a blog allegedly written by a housewife that - surprise! lives in YOUR area. Same with "Local Housewife Discovers" ...How to Flatten Her Belly or ...How to Erase Crows Feet, in Seven Days! etc., etc., ad nauseaum.

Even Dr. Mehmet Oz's name was used by this ad company as covered by Forbes magazine at http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/15/mehmet-oz-oprah-business-media-resverat....

The Better Business Bureau has also put out an alert regarding these fake blog ads schemes. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/shopping_blog/2009/04/facebook-scams-bbb....

Cautionary advice would be to scan the ENTIRE web page including the disclaimers they put way at the bottom of the page in light gray and with several tens of paragraph breaks in between the blog(ad) text and the disclaimer and terms.

Be very cautious out there people, this ad company in Florida doesn't give a FF if they mislead you and hurt your wallet with their dihonest dealings.

Found this site because I Googled "Twitter Hiring Ad." I came across the same ad but this time it said "Tweeter" instead of Twitter.

I can't believe people sell these systems when all you need to make money with twitter is to do a little research online for free.

I think that is the big question and big problem. The Drudge Report is legit and people trust them and who they associate with. By allowing Ad Networks to run these kind of misleading ads and maybe even fraudulent ads on their site hurts their reputation. It also hurts the other advertisers who are running in that Ad Network. I was surprised to see Bing Ads running today right after that ad. Microsoft is working hard on their reputation and to run with an Ad Network that is not worrying about their brand.. could be a big step back for them. The B2B community would give them a big thumbs down for sure.

Susan Coppersmith
Director of Sales
iEntry, Inc.

I contacted them. They apologized and said that the ad had been taken down.

Notice they are using smaller ad networks that use big pocket advertisers a lot. Gee ad networks wouldn't rip off their advertisers by allowing publishers to ask for clicks would they? Google doesn't.

Asking for clicks is defrauding the advertisers out of money. Plain and simple.

I'd never pay somebody to advertise my website or product if they were pushing for people to click on the ads. If my ad was not enough to attract a person to visit my website or buy my products I'd never know because I'd be seeing a lot of traffic and think my product must suck or something. Basically it wouldn't give anybody a clear picture until they saw that everybody was being asked to click on their ads.

It's like the Jehovah's Witnesses. If they put out literature for free to read like at libraries, or doctor's offices, etc., people might at least read it, even just to see what it was all about. I mean those things cost money, so why give it to people that only request it?

Let's mention that there are billions of people living on this planet and yet only 144,000 are going to heaven? Sounds more like a cult trying to pretend it's a religion to me. Wouldn't it suck if you spent your entire life handing out pamphlets only to find out in the end you didn't make the list because you came up 144,001th?

Great article highlighting the usual spammy scams and the ubiquitous scurge that abounds the net.

Disappointing that Twitter don't follow up this sort of behaviour themselves. Hopefully, this blog post will alert them. Well done. Rgds Vince