Scammed by Traffic Monsoon

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a company called Traffic Monsoon.

As I'm always checking out new sources of traffic for my business I was intrigued enough to sign up and check them out.

On the surface everything looked good.

The site looked very similar to many of the excellent traffic exchanges that I already use to grow my business online.

The unique selling point of Traffic Monsoon was:

You buy an ad pack for $50. They give you 20 guaranteed click throughs and 1,000 traffic exchange credits, plus one revenue sharing position.

By surfing just 10 ads per day at their traffic exchange you would qualify for a share of the advertising revenue raised each month.

After signing up with Traffic Monsoon things started to look a little fishy.

My first problem was that the 1,000 credits that were credited to my account simply evaporated.

Customer support were of no help on this one simply saying that the credits had been allocated to my account.

I didn't pursue it further as 1,000 credits were only worth about $5.00.

Next they changed the requirement from surfing just 10 ads per day to having to surf 50 ads per day. Hmmm...

Another irregularity also got me thinking.

They were asking people to verify their status by uploading government photo Ids such as a passport or driving licence plus utility bill.

Now call me suspicious but with so much information held about you wouldn't that be a recipe for disaster as far as identity theft goes.

About the only thing they didn't ask for was a bank pin number.

The next thing that raised my suspicions was that their Paypal service had been suspended and many members had funds frozen, supposedly by Paypal.

Highly unusual!

I decided to check Traffic Monsoon out on the net.

The best report I found was from Tara Talks who provided a long list of defunct companies once run by Traffic Monsoon's owner Charles Scoville.

Tara Talks allege that Charles Scoville is a serial scammer.

I'm aware that there are many such defamatory scam reviews on the internet regarding many reputable people so, I was still prepared to give Traffic Monsoon the benefit of the doubt but I continued to dig even deeper.

On Friday I was alerted to some new information by a random tweet that turned up in my Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/ICCFraudNet/status/759062350087462912

I checked the report out further and found that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were applying for a winding up petition against Charles Scoville and Traffic Monsoon claiming that it was a classic ponzi scheme.

It appears there has been much wrangling over the last few days and Traffic Monsoon is still up and running as I write this post.

You can follow the events as they unfold on this Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/TrafficMonsoonPONZI

I endeavour to check out all the companies that we deal with at the Easy Success Club.

I would never be able to sleep at night if I ever knowingly introduced people to such blatant scams.

As far as I am aware all of the companies that we currently deal with are 100% legitimate.

Companies such as Traffic Monsoon and people such as Charles Scoville do genuine people a great disservice with their illegal activities.

However, I am sure that such people are in a very small minority and I continue to have great faith in the ability of the internet to be a platform for many ordinary people to make money quite legally.

To your easy success

Shaun Price

Easy Success Club founder