A 24-Year-Old Spammer Is Earning Thousands Of Dollars Per Day On Pinterest

Archer2012 · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 03-29-2012, 05:27 AM

I was reading this article on yahoo , about a guy spamming pinterest . how is this guy getting away with this? why can't hey find out who he is and shut him down?
I'm sure they could find out who he is, if he's getting paid , the money has to be going into an account somewhere with his real name on it. I was under the impression that large scale spamming like this was illegal.

**snakeair** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-29-2012, 07:37 AM

hmmmmm, i found some updated information on this spammer. Read the full blog post below.

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A 24-year-old man who calls himself “Steve” makes more than $1,000 per day pinning Amazon product links on Pinterest, one of 2012′s hottest social networks.

Taking advantage of the startup’s fast growth and optimal user demographics — consisting mostly of brand-savvy women with an annual household income of more than $100,000 and a love of shopping — spammers are making huge amounts of money just by pinning items to Pinterest and directing consumers to make purchases on Amazon.

The Daily Dot published an interview with Pinterest spammer Steve after exposing an underground community of spammers targeting the hot site.

Continued at: http://mashable.com/2012/03/28/pinterest-amazon-spam/

txshellie · #3 (**permalink**) 03-29-2012, 07:56 AM

Ugh. This thread is more incentive for me to go explore Pinterest. I'm the last 40-something woman alive who isn't pinning things...

Archer2012 · #4 (**permalink**) 04-03-2012, 04:56 AM

I saw another article about this girl , shows cleavage on her youtube videos and makes money. WTF?!??

I can't post the link ,

the title of the article is "How reply girl’s videos make her mounds of cash"

Maa · #5 (**permalink**) 06-16-2012, 04:40 PM

I joined pinterest but I haven't done anything with it yet. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed cause I can't be at all of these sites all the time. I said I am just going to have to focus on a few at a time. How can you spam on pinterest? I thought it was just pinning stuff. I don't know why people do stuff like that because they always eventually get shutdown.

**ScriptMan** · #6 (**permalink**) 06-16-2012, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Archer2012

I saw another article about this girl , shows cleavage on her youtube videos and makes money. WTF?!??

I can't post the link ,

the title of the article is "How reply girl’s videos make her mounds of cash"

Or was that "How her mounds make cash"?

**Jim Gillum** · #7 (**permalink**) 06-17-2012, 12:31 AM

Isn't that a candy bar?

demonblood · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-2012, 08:36 PM

Wow! I should explore pinterest then.

enterscope · #9 (**permalink**) 07-04-2012, 08:59 PM

I thought Pinterest was automatically converting Amazon links to their affiliate ID? I heard that when it first came out, maybe they changed that.

digitalbizmarketing · #10 (**permalink**) 07-10-2012, 01:05 AM

I use pinterest to get traffic to my site with product offer but no conversion yet.

dmcbane · #11 (**permalink**) 07-17-2012, 12:23 AM

Pinterest has a definite bias toward certain types of content. Unfortunately, none of what's popular has anything to do with my site, so I can't use it effectively.

steiner · #12 (**permalink**) 07-31-2012, 07:18 AM

Sadly, I fail to see how ethical it would be spamming sites. I hate spammers. There are other ways to make money. Heck even Perez Hilton isnt a spammer.

Loridori4 · #13 (**permalink**) 08-01-2012, 12:38 PM

I actually buy a lot of products from Amazon, and Im an affiliate. So, Id like to pin some of the things I've bought and recommend.
But how the heck would I do that?
In Amazon affiliate back end, you get html code to embed in a website. For pinterest you need a URL to pull the image from.

stone · #14 (**permalink**) 08-01-2012, 01:00 PM

I haven't figured out how to do much with pinterest either.
I'm probably using it exactly as they meant for us to use it...

I'm pining up my wish list...

There's no point pining anything from my site, I simply don't have enough followers, and I can't tell that anyone even sees my pins anyway...

Pinterest seems to be geared toward the new members as blotanical is.

**ScriptMan** · #15 (**permalink**) 08-01-2012, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Loridori4

I actually buy a lot of products from Amazon, and Im an affiliate. So, Id like to pin some of the things I've bought and recommend.
But how the heck would I do that?
In Amazon affiliate back end, you get html code to embed in a website. For pinterest you need a URL to pull the image from.

I think you are allowed to copy the images and host them as long as you only use them for the intended purpose. Also the image url is in the widget code if you can figure out exact where.

Loridori4 · #16 (**permalink**) 08-01-2012, 01:52 PM

hmmm never mind that. It appears that PInterest is now blocking links with Amazon affiliate ID's attached to them.

denysaputra · #17 (**permalink**) 08-01-2012, 03:05 PM

How spammer can earn $$$$?

(thought I didn't read the article yet)

**snakeair** · #18 (**permalink**) 08-01-2012, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by denysaputra

How spammer can earn $$$$?

(thought I didn't read the article yet)

Pinterest has changed since this has happend. Although spammers are good at finding ways to cheat the system.

atyq · #19 (**permalink**) 08-05-2012, 05:08 AM

Is this activity punishable by the law?
By this activity, I mean making money by spamming...

freeadstime · #20 (**permalink**) 08-05-2012, 07:58 AM

Another spammer was Yahoo to put this article for everyone to read. Why I say Yahoo is spammer too?

Because they did accept money from Pinterest to have an article about How to make money on Pinterest on Yahoo's first page. They just put it in different words. They are simply telling the word how to spam.