I have had a request to review another PTR (paid to read e-mail site) and I’m afraid to say it has all the telltale signs on being an Internet scam. PTR sites are not technically affiliate programs but they do all have referral programs, which many affiliate marketers will be interested in. This PTR is called Danger-mails.

The bad
- Danger-mails always has the dollar sign ($) written after the number (the wrong way round!) E.g. instead of $10 they say 10$. This doesn’t give a good impression. Is it a way to sneak out of paying anyone? I could imagine them saying ‘but we said we would pay 10$, which doesn’t exist so your not getting anything’.

- Minimum payout is “15000$”. Even if everything else on the site looked legit, this detail alone would deter me, but on Danger-mails this is one negative amongst many.

- “After upgrade your money will be transferred to your account”. Anywhere that asks ‘you pay them to pay you’ is almost defiantly an internet scam.

- Danger-mails says that your “Upline need to be at least 80% active to receive referral earnings”. A downline is your referrals, but your ‘upline’ is a rarely used phrase, because it consists of the people ‘above you’ and you have no control over it. 80% is a very high level of activity and it is very unlikely that your Upline will be 80% active.

The ridiculous
If in the foolish even that you do actually pay Danger-mails and upgrade to a ‘Toxic account’ you get to have these wacky rewards:

- Invitation to year-end Member Appreciation cocktail party
- “Free Referrals - Free Referrals - Your referral url will be randomly inserted 15 times per rotation. ( 50-100 Referrals Daily ).”
- One invitation for two to a private dinner with visiting artists or curators

How/Why they would give you 50-100 referrals each day is beyond me, but the cocktail party sounds fun! :p

conclusion
I hope by now it is clear that Danger-mails is another PTR Internet scam. In addition to all the outrageous quotes I have used in this review there are many more on the homepage that shout ‘internet scam!’. For all of the above reasons Danger-mails has not made it anywhere near my recommended affiliate programs section.

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