How can one determine if a site is a scam site?

[budbiss]

My manager was recently contacted by a representative from a company that supposedly will send us leads, and in return, simply asks that, using the "honor system", we compensate them what we feel is a fair amount. My manager looks at this as well how can we loose. It sounds fishy to me. Is there a way that I can find out if this site legitamite or not? Perhaps a utility or something? Are there any clues I can look for? Also, they will put up a link to our site, but I am even concerned that if this site is committing bad practices that it may affect our site once linked. BTW, PM me if you want to know the URL to this site.

[Corey Bryant]

If it sounds fishy - go with that your instincts. Chances are it is. They are telling you to pay what you feel is fair? You need to at least work out some type of arrangement - like XX per sale

-Corey

[The_Magus]

Hi:

You have not said anything about how these people would acquire the leads. Do they have a web site?

The reason I am commenting is that there are a lot of people running web sites from the UK or other European countries advertising real estate in Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey etc using information they obtain from local agents. In return they want a cut of the action but have no way of knowing if a sale is made or not so they have to rely on the local agent owning up when there is a sale. They often use phrases similiar to the one you mention.

Frankly I think they are parasites as they are working out of a spare room in the UK and never see any of the property yet they give the impression that they are directly involved and refer to the local agent as if he/she was one of their employees.

Of course without local agents providing the info this would never happen but at the same time local agents will do anything to move some property and make a buck.

Cheers

Jack

[ispy]

There are also advertising companies, these are big agencies working with Fortune 500 but also you can set up accounts online, I won't mention who to prevent others from hearing about them. I know this for certain since I have tested them out. They are in the business of covertly installing advertising on peoples computers. It's quite hard to get this off too. I crashed my computer trying and had to reboot from scratch. It gets in when you use, for example, something like a free greeting card online you send to someone.

It works to redirect traffic when you search for something on a seach engine to the desired site. It can be anything, not having to be necessarily relevant, even a competitors site being searched for, for exaple Amazon or Bay. The offer you mentioned could use something like this to send any traffic your way and have it look like it's being redirected from their site. Then again, it could be legit too.