GreenZap. Are you ready?
Hate PayPal? If you’ve been online long enough, you’ll remember two things: PayPal used to offer both the referrer and the referree (sp?) $5 for every new sign-up. It was wildly popular and successful and now PayPal dominates the landscape. Lots of copycats showed up, like Flooz and Yahoo PayDirect and Citibank (I forget the exact name!), only to fail miserably.
Enter GreenZap. Another PayPal alternative, except they are offering $25 free for people who “pre-register”, as they don’t actually go live until 6/15/05. Referrers get $5 (and possibly more).
[Deleted my promo code since this looks like a scam] You only need name, address, and e-mail right now, so in case this is something shady, you might want to use a spam address. If it is for real, I predict a lot of buzz about this in the future. Caveat Emptor.
Update: It turns out the $25 is “WebCash”, which is about as valuable as Monopoly money.
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April 6th, 2005 at 10:21 am
I don’t know if it is your link or their link, but the referral isn’t working and neither is the homepage… so might be them.
April 6th, 2005 at 10:30 am
I think I may have found the answer here
http://greenzap.blogspot.com/
It seems to be their site that is overloaded
April 6th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
hmm i havent seen the site yet since there’s the server overload.. but the fact that they couldnt anticipate or handle that.. speaks a lot about the company itself. especially if it aims to be an internet payment transaction company. but yeah i guess we’ll find out. that person’s blog on greenzap is interesting.
April 6th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
just to add in, there’s some discussion at scam.net http://www.scams.net/showthrea.....t=greenzap
which makes a good point. besides collecting your information, there are those of us that DO USE the same password for all our sites (not a good idea).. so this supposed site is gathering info and possible potential real passwords. Quite a lot of effort I think, but yeah.
on another note, for my sensitive accounts, my passwords are usually different, and varies with letters and numbers and different captions.
April 18th, 2005 at 8:43 am
latest tidbit on greezap - there are rumors on freeauctionscripts.com http://www.freeauctionscripts......html#90531 that it is run by non other than damon westmoreland (well known pyramid/ponzi scam artist)
not to mention the fact that it is a pyramid scheme - if you upgrade by putting in $100, then you get paid for each referral that also puts up $100, and if they get others beneath them to do it, you get even more
this is from the greenzap community forum and their supposed “liason”.