Viral Marketing Or Plain Old Fashioned Scam?
Published: Monday, April 03, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
VIRAL ONLINE POKER MARKETING OR A PLAIN OLD FASHIONED SCAM?
"Save My Finger" was a lie, plain and simple
A online poker player supposedly called Carl Valentine who sought website support visits in order to save his finger from being amputated in a bizarre bet (see previous Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa reports) has turned out to be a scam to attract traffic.
SaveMyFinger.com made an appearance last year as an appeal for visitors to help "Valentine" attract 2 million visitors to a website by April 18 2006 to save him having to comply with a wager in which his right index finger was the stake.
This week it transpired, as many had suspected, that the whole thing was a scam. The unidentified webmaster shrugged off the deliberate deception as a "viral marketing experiment" aimed at exploiting the sympathy of online poker players in order to generate significant traffic for the site, and presumably the rewards that flow from that in terms of exposure and advertising.
Dismissing the "Carl Valentine deception as "...just a funny story," this less than honest webmaster revealed that: "The intention of this website was to literally do an experiment with Viral Marketing. And I'm happy to announce that the experiment worked...My point in this experiment was to prove that it is possible to open up a website and within days, if not hours, be receiving massive traffic.
He goes on to boast that a total of 1.601.255 unique visitors have landed on SaveMyFinger.com since it launched on December 12, 2005.
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