LocalAdClick Review: Fake classifieds? Scam.
LocalAdClick best in class products, services, and solutions in innovative and cost effective ways. The company owns and operates three divisions:
i-SUPPLY which provides easy to use, fully customizable E-commerce services and revenue solutions for any Web site, large or small.
LocalAdClick, is a local search directory and advertising network that brings local advertising to geo-targeted consumers.
ViSim.com is the leading niche portal and social networking site for Baby Boomers and Generation Jones.
If you took LocalAdClick’s description of itself seriously, you’d believe that the company was a global series of portals with a high-tech advertising platform serving ads to a large network of users.
Big brand websites, big brand advertising and big big profits for everyone right?
Wrong.
Read on for a full review of the LocalAdClick MLM opportunity.
The Company
LocalAdClick do not mention who owns or runs the company on their website.
The domains ‘localadclick.com’ and ‘localadclick.net’ were registered on June 25th 2011 and the whois information is set to private.
The company portal ‘i-Supply’ mentioned on LocalAdClick’s website doesn’t seem to exist.
‘isupplyco.com’ is a delivery service operating out of Ohio in the US and isupply.com is a market research company owned by ‘IHS Inc.’, who as far as I can tell have nothing to do with localadclick.
The third portal, ‘vism.com’ is claimed to be ‘he leading niche portal and social networking site for Baby Boomers and Generation Jones’, but a quick visit to the site instead reveals that it’s the domain of ‘Visionology Interactive Media’, a design studio that has nothing to do with social networking.
Visim.com was registered as a domain way back in 1999 and it appears it also has nothing to do with LocalAdClick.
The LocalAdClick Product
Discounting both LocalAdClick’s claimed ties to social networking and ‘e-commerce solutions’, because i-Supply and visim.com are in no way connected to them, this leaves us with LocalAdClick’s local business directory.
At this point your probably wondering how a product ties into a business directory and a MLM opportunity. Well, the short answer is it doesn’t.
Advertising wise the business enquiry page for LocalAdClick is almost laughable.
They provide no prices and don’t request you ask them for a quote, instead potential businesses simply provide some YouTube links, your budget an email address and mobile.
That’s it, afterwhich presumably the people running LocalAdClick may or may not call you up and ask for money to put your YouTube videos on their website.
A quick look over at LocalAdClick.com reveals a Nike ad, shamelessly ripped from Youtube after being uploaded by some random user.
Obviously LocalAdClick have no commercial agreement with Nike but they want you to think they do.
Likewise in using random Youtube videos in their advertising network, LocalAdClick’s claims of brining ‘local advertising to geo-targeted consumers‘ are also bogus.
Even the classifieds published at LocalAdClick.com are fraudulently copied from other networks and as such are all listed for $0.00.
For example, an 11 week old chihuahua ad was supposedly published on LocalAdClick in October, yet the exact same advertisement appears on a free classifieds site for Toronto, Canada dated March of this year.
I tested this with 10 randomly sampled ads listed on LocalAdClick and every single one of them was copied from another classified site.
Given this, it’s quite obvious the owners are using automation tools to populate LocalAdClick’s classified section with bogus out of date ads from other networks.
You can verify this yourself by picking any classified ad at random from LocalAdClick, selecting a line at random and performing an exact phrase search in Google (wrap the phrase in talking marks) along with the city the classified is allegedly from.
Of course the idea isn’t for you to take their advertising network or classified listings at LocalAdClick.com seriously, but more on that in the conclusion of this review.
The LocalAdClick Compensation Plan
The LocalAdClick compensation plan surprisingly has nothing to do with advertisements or the supposedly genuine classifieds published on LocalAdClick.
Instead, members are paid for watching ads (more on this in the conclusion of the article) and recruiting other to the team.
AdStation Commissions
Depending on which level members join LocalAdClick at (how much money they pay to the company in membership fees), LocalAdClick pay out a commission when its members watch ads the company provides for watching.
These commissions are paid weekly and capped as follows;
- Bronze Membership – $12.50
- Silver Membership – $25
- Gold Membership – $50
Binary Commissions
LocalAdClick members are paid a commission based on the amount of new members brought into the company each day.
Upon joining LocalAdClick, members are placed at the top of a binary organisation.
The way a binary works is starting with you at the top, two legs branch out on either side – forming two teams (A and B).
From these two legs, another two legs form and so on and so forth. As you start to grow your LocalAdClick binary organisation, it will start to look something like this;
The commissions LocalAdClick pay out on this binary depends on the amount of new groups of three members an existing member has recruited at the end of each day.
To make a group, you simply need to recruit three new LocalAdClick members, split either 2:1 or 1:2 (A/B teams).
For example, if you recruit a new member on your A team, you need to also recruit 2 new members on your B team to make a group.
The same applies vice-versa (2 on your A team requires 1 on your B team to make a group).
For each new group you make at the end of each day, LocalAdClick will pay out a commission of $50 capped at 14 groups a day ($700).
Group Rewards
In addition to the daily group commissions outlined above, LocalAdClick also keep a running tally of your groups and pay you out a bonus commission for certain group milestones.
These milestones and their associated commissions are as follows;
- 10 groups = $100
- 20 groups = $250
- 50 groups = $500
- 100 groups = $1000
- 500 groups = $2500
- 1000 groups = $5000
- 5000 groups = $10,000
- 10,000 groups = $100,000
- 25,000 groups = $250,000
Fast Track Incentives
The Fast Track Incentives again reward LocalAdClick members for forming groups, but only pay out if the targets set are achieved within a 7 day (Monday to Sunday) time period.
The groups needed and their associated rewards are as follows;
- 10 groups = diamond ring
- 20 groups = iPhone
- 30 groups = laptop
- 40 groups = bike
- 50 groups = foreign trip
- 100 groups = “Alto” (car?)
- 150 groups = i-10 Hyundai
No further specifics on any of these rewards are provided.
Mega Incentives
As with the Fast Track Incentives, LocalAdClick members are given the opportunity to earn Mega Incentives if they reach group and personal recruitment targets within 100 days of joining LocalAdClick.
These incentives and their group requirements are as follows;
- 50 groups and 3 personally recruitment members = laptop
- 100 groups and 4 personally recruited members = foreign trip
- 250 groups and 6 personally recruited members = i-10 Hyundai
- 500 groups and 8 personally recruited members = Honda City
- 1000 groups and 10 personally recruited members = Mercedes
- 10,000 groups and 15 personally recruited members = Jaguar
Again, no further specifics on any of the incentives offered is provided.
Joining LocalAdClick
Those wishing to join LocalAdClick have three options open to them;
- Bronze Membership – $150 ($12.50 AdStation cap)
- Silver Membership – $250 ($25 AdStation cap)
- Gold Membership – $500 ($50 AdStation cap)
I believe all LocalAdClick membership levels are annual payments.
Conclusion
We have no idea who is running LocalAdClick and despite the company claiming to have three websites within the business, one clearly doesn’t exist (i-Supply) and the other has nothing to do with them (ViSlim.com).
On the one property the company does own, LocalAdClick, the website is filled with fake classified scraped from other sites and serves up Youtube videos masquerading as ‘geo-targeted’ advertising.
There is no mention of AdStations anywhere on the LocalAdClick.com website yet this is a core part of the business model for LocalAdClick members.
Furthermore the company will not show you their business model unless you surrender your name, email address and mobile phone number to them. Thankfully the website accepts bogus entries and you can still see their actual business model.
Speaking of business models, LocalAdClick pay members for watching Youtube videos they claim are commissioned ads on their network and for the recruitment of others.
Essentially the company takes in membership fees and then shuffles it around to pay out commissions to other members – the very definition of a pyramid scheme.
Whereas most of these types of companies don’t go to much effort to hide their models, LocalAdClick have built a fairly credible looking site if you just glanced at it before you rushed out to recruit others, but upon inspection it’s obvious it’s a front to cover the true nature of the business opportunity.
That is, pay a membership fee, recruit others, watch YouTube videos and earn money off other people’s membership fees.
Will LocalAdClick last?
Not a chance. Avoid this obvious scam at all costs as it’s as dodgy as they come.
Thank you very much for the information provided to my friends..
Smells like TVI Express claiming affiliation with the biggest travel companies of the world, but actually sells no travel, doesn’t it? Even the 2×3 matrix is identical.
I’ve only shown part of the binary, LocalAdClick don’t use a matrix – the binary keeps on going past the 3 levels I’ve shown in the graphical example.
Then it’s even worse. 🙂
Got some friends who has already purchased an ad station and was trying to recruit me. Was fishing for something to prove to them its bogus.
Thank you very much.. Plenty of info to take on them… 😀
Probably have a spider crawling Craigslist and Gumtree and similar classified websites… if at all. It’s all in the appearances. Looks like a lot of ads, in reality, none at all.
Dear All,
Me and my saudi friend joined LocalAdClick last November 25. We tried this business and we made a really big amount of money. I was able to earned US18,000.00 in just 15 days and my saudi friend was able to earned US95,000.00 in his first 2 months with this business.
I was thinking why people keeps posting such a negative reviews like this against other company which is tryng to help others.
Are you guys are being affected by LocalAdClick? or you MLM company started to loose members because they are earning more than what you are earning from your “legal” MLM. This review doesn’t make any sense to me since I have seen that online ads and businesses are booming!
All the best folks, join me with localAdClick and I will give you a lot members from Middle East, Africa and Asia. All the best, iVAN
@IVAN
Thanks for your comment. Most of those who writes here are not engaged in any opportunity, so they’re not affected by any of them either.
I have a few questions.
* Is the membership fee a “yearly fee”, “lifetime fee” or “monthly fee”? Oz guessed it was a yearly fee, but it hasn’t been confirmed.
* Can you buy more AdStations (to earn more money on watching video-ads)?
* And in case you can do it, what’s the price of additional AdStations?
The information I’m asking for is “neutral” and factual, and it’s only intended to make people informed about other solutions than recruitment.
Most readers here will prefer factual information rather than income claims, because fake income claims have been too wildly used “in this industry”. Most people have stopped believing in them anyway, if they’re experienced. And it’s not wise to treat people as “unexperienced” if you’re not able to identify the audience exactly.
So how many people did you recruit? Ever ask the question “is that where my money came from?”
The company may be helping you by hurting others in the process. That’s the way Ponzi schemes work. Can you prove that it’s not doing that? Or it simply does not concern you?
Ah, the baseless “sour grapes” accusation. Seen that before… always trotted out by the folks who think accusing others without proof is a valid debate tactic. It’s not, and only reveals the weakness of one’s own position.
Can even you prove you’re in online ads business, besides the ad copy from that “business”?
Agree with i-van it is a great opertunaty. its a way to help each other to earm money.
All the MLM companies came out with the same business plan. This is also the same ditto. And in the begining stage all said the same thing iVan said.
Can you give 100% assurance for the money to the onborad members? I heard that recently one person got a mercedez in Saudi Arabia with this MLM in weeks, So what is the income of the company?
The comapny is giving commision to all the members who got pair membes. The company is doing charity business? If the company is a genuine one why cant they give the company informations and other details on their website?
@Sun
Fail.
Your opening line makes the rest of your rank inaccurate and irrelevant.
The schemes like localadclik produce no goods of any significance, and they provide no service. They create no wealth. All they do is move existing wealth. Every dollar that one person gains through such a scheme is a dollar that someone else has lost.
Who knows you may the next victim so please try to avoid such type of fake and injustices business deals as they are a kind of economic and social Injustice.
I’m happy helping other people with Local Ad Click, the more I help the more I earn. I had been in MLM business for over 15 years but this is the first time I really enjoy doing MLM and the profits.
People can say their opinions whether it is good or bad which is normal in every MLM Company. But the real thing is always will base on the real thing when you do such business. I tried Local Ad Click and I was able to earn more than $70,000 in just 50 days of doing it. Most of my leaders earned already and I’m proud to say that every single member in Local Ad Click will be having fun by having a real good par time income^^
To those who don’t like Local Ad Click idea, we are not convincing you, we are doing well and we don’t need you ha-ha! With you or without you Local Ad Click is going to grow^^
“So stop pretending to be a victim”!!!
Every company could be scam depends on how the people doing it, but with our team who is really working hard and with our global support system, I can guarantee that everyone is going to be happy^^
I wish you all the best guys!!!
iVAN
How are you “helping” them? Are you placing ads for them? Or just adding them to your downline, thus making them PAY money?
I’d disagree. “It paid therefore it’s legit” is used by virtually ALL the scams out there as an excuse. And it’s an logical fallacy.
Then what are you doing here, if it’s not to convince us?
Every scam defender that came here said the exact same thing about their pet scam before the scam was shut down. You won’t be the last.
@Ivan
All those fake ads (ripped from other classifieds) make it very little interesting for normal customers, both it they wants to buy or sell something.
So basically you’re making money on selling memberships, bronze – silver – gold. to something none of the people you are helping are interested in, except for the opportunity to sell membership?
Then I can understand why you’re feeling happy. People often have that feeling when they have disengaged their brain most of the time.
Couple a questions.
Where exactly the company is registered ?
turnover?
direct contact number
name of the Owner.
legality proof of business
product or services they are promoting?
@Ali
It’s probably not registered at all. And if it is, it’ll be offshore in some remote corner of the world.
You’re going to have to contact LocalAdClick themselves for this info as they don’t make it publicly available (lol goodluck).
Read the review, the company claims to offer members the ability to post classified ads but it’s not tied into the compensation plan.
When ever there is a new company coming up and make an impact in the online market, the news saying it is a SCAM began to float in the internet and other medias from the competitiors and other MLM companies who wants to get a chance in the market.
LocalAdClick so far seems to be a good company. Do you ever think that if company posts some names there in their site make s it a legal one (never). There is no point even if they posts the name of their executives there.
Which MLM company had given you an assurance so far. You would have lost money in MKLM by investing behind foolish companies. Make the investment in good companies rather than making comments out of no where.
What does this have to do with anything? LocalAdClick’s business model is clearly a scam based on the fact they have fake advertisements and is heavily geared towards recruitment commissions.
Oh, well in that case let’s just throw analysis of the business model out the window then.
No, that is what analysis of the buisness model is for. As far as a business goes though, hiding who is running or owns it is always suspiciously dodgy.
Irrelevant, let’s stick to discussion on LocalAdClick.
i know localadclikc is scammer company
i regisry and now i can not take my money I am a victim
be carful from this comapny it’s inian company
i m agreed with others people
it is so good opportunity those poor people who are face the huge financially problems
I am also a member of LAC. I am making money but though making money I always have a doubt of this company. Because it is very funny. No phone number, No Boss, No Ceo face, Cannot buy pin from company, emails are not answered. It is as though we are doing business with some aliens from outer space.
No doubt payments are good now but how long….? Deep in my heart I always feel scared who is going to be the victim in the end. I hope the company can run long. If this company close than sure indians from India will be cursed and it will affect future business as well.
So I hope these angels!!! are reaaaaal angels.
HI
LADC – The reviews @ Dubai are very authentic and I have plans to kick off with Gold membership this week …
Also one of my close friend who joined with 3 golds in Feb recovered his investments and started to earn his accounts been demonstrated by me .
In spiteI could not find any superior information about LADC in the internet. Kind request to those who joined in FEB / March 2012 to clarify my below doubts
• Why we can’t buy the points online ?
• Is some one success to transfer the Money into their personnel bank account (with 15% deducted) ?
• No proper information’s provided online?
• The ads receiving every week are from genuine companies ?
• Dubai LADC members claim that the company is going to open its area office in Dubai soon ?
anticipating genuine reply prior I join this network
Of course, advertising the fact of it stolen from youtube anyone can download ads from youtube and post it on anysites
how do you know this ads is real or fake ??
even it open office in Dubai ? Dubai is free city and not there any law can stop this comapny
can any one reconfirm that the money can be transferred to our bank account or we have to depend on the new members to obtain our money back (by internal transfer of pin)
the below is what the company says:
🙂 trust by now Ivan and his friend from KSA must be millionaires in $ by E wallet and might be engaged how to en cash these E wallet
correct me Ivan if i’m wrong ? as i do not have any other negative feedback on LADC than the en cash of the E wallets (is the company wire transfer the money to our bank accounts)
In my view this company awaited compilation of a certain amount money from the people maybe 100 millions or more …
And then withdraw from the market
@anil
Sounds like they’re only offering a 5% bonus if you sell pins, otherwise withdrawals are as normal.
I am afraid of this type of business.
The owner of the company drugged people big profits and then takes what he wants.
thanks – need help if you are a member
clarify – suppose if I pay $ 500 i will get 1 paid ID + 2 registration ID for free ??
Not being a member, you’re going to have to contact someone from the company about that.
See if you wanting to be member you have to under be sumone who has already subscribed and the fee is 500$ per id..
My question @ Protocol,
How you know ads on LAC is from youtube? have you watched any ads on LAC? I thought only members have seen those ads .. please provide some proof here.
Thanks
@ Anil , there is nothing called “free” in this world .. lol ..
well they have like 3 kind of subscriptions bronze,silver and Gold when you subscribe for gold you get like 3 ids one is your main id and the other 2 is like tripod .. right and left .. so that you can add new members under the right one or left one .. and it will cost you like around $1400 ..
Thanks
Why do you need 3 accounts to watch the same ads?
What is the value to advertisers when you watch the same ad three times under three different accounts?
And forget Youtube videos, the entire classified network is fake. LocalAdClick just scrape ads from other networks and publish them as their own.
Well you gotta prove that they are taking ads from youtube and when you watch 3 accounts you get paid like $150 ,$50 each …well i dont know if its fake or not am just stating facts which i know about , cant say anything which i dont know about and i cant prove it.
Thanks
Like I said, who cares about Youtube when the entire classified ad network is fake in itself.
Did you even read the review?
Fake? Again i can ask you to prove it.And yes you gotta read me properly , when you say something is fake you should have proper proof. 🙂
…so you haven’t even bothered to read the review then. Cheers.
Cheers to you too mate .. 😀
FYI,
I joined LADC last month mar’ 12, now i earnined 30% of my investment, it is fully risky type of business.
MAKM
I dont know , but i think there is ‘risk’ in every buisness …and doing anything online is worse risky.. @ Makm
So far you have LOST 70% of your investment?
You haven’t earned anything before you have withdrawn your initial investment and expenses. First THEN we start to calculate the money we have earned.
You will of course have the value of the product itself, the AdStations, as an extra bonus when the scheme closes down and stops paying. I’m sure it’s an interesting product to have on your computer, something that can keep you and your family entertained for hours each day? Your family will save alot of money if they can replace watching movies with watching the AdStations. 🙂
@ Rajan
well they have like 3 kind of subscriptions bronze,silver and Gold when you subscribe for gold you get like 3 ids one is your main id and the other 2 is like tripod .. right and left .. so that you can add new members under the right one or left one .. and it will cost you like around $1400 ..
ok now i got it ….thanks Rajan for all ur clarification …- so if I pay $500 only the main registration will activated ……and to activate the Right(R) and Left(L)you need to pay $ 500 (R) + $500 (L)……am i right ??
if i want buy all 3 subscription – i need to pay $1400
but i think there is ‘risk’ in every buisness …and doing anything online is worse risky..
yes I agree with Rajan …….u need a super b..ls (gurda) to invest and face risk….and trust $ 1400 is not a huge amount as we spend for a laptop or Iphone which is outdated in months
thanx for all clarification
If you buy laptop or iphone you can sell it and recoup partial cost.
If you put money into a scam you only face embarassment for the rest of your life, esp. if you also recruited friends and family into it.
@ K Chang
thanks for the advise – as i said you need as super b..ls to play this game /gambling
I’m already a member tonight (while ago) by paying $ 1500-
For all your consideration……i joined this to see what’s happening and rescue the people if this is a scam and for sure I’M not recommend any members to this till i have experience the said scam
wish me a luck and see u soon with happening real updates
this what i call as super b..ls …..instead simply firing in the air without bullets
If this is a reinvestment of money you have made in another scam, your choice is perfectly sound. Money of that kind is considered to be ‘risk capital’, or ‘easy comes easy goes, no opportunity without a risk’. It’s also perfectly sound if you’re in for the experience, using it as some kind of training.
It’s an obvious scam, so the worst risk is to believe it is a real business, and to believe you can make money only by watching ads. This business will slow down and disappear when the recruitment slows down.
I’ll guess you are most interested in the income opportunity here? You don’t seem like that kind of guy being very interested in AdStations just to have them on your computer, as entertainment for the family and similar use?
One additional risk in this company is the rules they have about payment, “India: Minimum $300, Other countries: Minimum $500”. This will make most of the money outside your reach when you first starts to detect problems, and you will probably experience an additional loss that could have been avoided with other rules.
These rules will also give the company a slightly longer lifetime, and make it more difficult to detect problems for the participants. I won’t consider that to be an advantage for the participants, but it is an advantage for the company. The more money they can prevent from withdrawal the more money they will make before it all collapses.
Some other additional risks here is that the company owner is unknown, and the company claims to be located in Dubai or something (yet they seems to be targeting India, and to be operating from Mumbai or something)? It means they easily can disappear when the recruitment slows down. In combination with the rules about payment this is an even worse sign.
Here is one test you can do, analyse the interests in showing proofs of something:
Rajan is the one involved in this, and I am not. It should be within HIS interests to prove something (other than payments). I do not have any particular interests in showing proofs, since it will not affect my economical interests.
He is too eager to recruit, and hasn’t even analysed that the proofs is within HIS interests. You are not looking at a professional business man here, you are only looking at a person eager to recruit. A real opportunity would have TRAINED people to a higher level than that, before they had let them loose in the market.
He hasn’t even discovered that his question for proofs makes it possible for me to make him look completely stupid.
In a few other opportunities you can probably learn something useful, even if they are scams. Here you have a good chance to learn how to look stupid. Please make a note about additional risks/benefits like that when you evaluate something?
Another thing you can evaluate is the kind of ‘proofs’ they are willing to show you. In a normal business, people are usually relaxed when it comes to normal business questions (within their own knowledge).
A sign of a scam can be both too little proofs or too much proofs, ‘pre-made’ to give the impression of being a professional business. Both of them can be considered to be negative signs. A normal business should first of all be relaxed when it comes to proofs.
Wish you luck anil ..
as Promised
the update # 1
$ 64 in my account and excited to watch adds on this Monday
catchup later with more updates
First and last warning, this is not the place to publish explicit proof of payment with the intention of encouraging others to join.
Proof of payment does not dictate whether or not a business opportunity is a scam or not, the buisness model does.
@ Oz
i take this as the opportunity to express or publish feed backs….. where i prefer to continue the current happenings on the memberships which i purchased – for sure this will help people to use their guts ….instead depend on some negative / depressing elements
Thanks in advance for your further warnings
Payment does NOT prove it’s not a scam. Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi paid people over 10 years.
@ Chang
Payment does NOT prove it’s not a scam
Well…. I consistently agree with your tip…..and this can be acknowledged as scam via how the LADC website is designed.
FYI – this is to some extent online Gambling / game…and people like me love to do so (- or + doesn’t make any difference) ! as the taste differs person to person according their desires.
As long as you go in with your eyes wide open, that’s fine.
Keep in mind though, that when law enforcement cannot arrest perps of a scam that’s NOT in country, they WILL arrest those who *are* in country that they *can* arrest. This has consistently happened in the US, Australia, South Africa, and so on.
local ad click amout withdrwal request is not working now. it’s about more than a month i can’t get the money.
i think company is trying to escape.even anyone can’t get money.now how can anyone get money without this funtion???
why they do not publish anything in about us page???????????????????????????? http://www.localadclick.net/about_us.html
Jan you can ask your sponsor who has opened ur account and who has told you about this .. discuss this with him am sure he/she might have ideas..Thanks
but how they do it the company withdrawal request is still desaibled. why are they not fixing this?
he give the money but the above problem is still not solve.do you know why???
Yeah… because it’s a scam and people have stopped joining.
i totally disagree with u..anyway i got $1000 from this site..i joined this month ago..already i have given plenty of money for the money that i invested…
@Praveen
How you get dollar 1000 withdraw.in this day the withdraw is still tempory un available.I know there is update in hardware and software until 1st of may…
I got paid from the company as well but lately there is technical upgrades it may suspend the withdraw option till Wednesday 2 of may, best wishes for all.
franchise agent can give money.100% he give money in 24 hours
So the company itself has closed up shop and now “franchisees” are paying out their downlines from their own funds.
Hilarious!
@Oz
Franchisees or anyone will never pay a single dime from their pocket/funds. The thing is lots of ppl who are interested in opening a account with localadclick comes to them and give them the amount and when you are transfering your funds to them they make open new accounts with that funds and pay u from the money which they have collected from new members.
And thats their look out how they are corresponding with Localadclick its their look out , people are getting paid anyhow 😛
So in other words, there is no proof that this is indeed a separate PERSON that has opened the new account, since it’s all PAID by the same person?
@rajan
Sounds like Speak Asia’s pin farce with their franchisees.
If you guys were actually selling product you wouldn’t even need membership franchisees.
I just join this business two weeks ago it was introduced to me by a friend i trust my friend so i opened also an account.
Only this week that i check the company background and come to this page. I read the article and all the comments and after that i doubt if i will have my investment back.
I joined her in Saudi, can somebody give information about how long this business is in the Kingdom? also is the office in Riyadh is existing? as to what they are telling us that they have office in Riyadh, can somebody give contact number and office address there.
Thanks for any info..
@Leo — I thought any sort of MLM is considered haram under Saudi law? Maybe you can just go to the authorities and complain that you have been deceived into joining a MLM, which is 100% true.
@ K.Chang..
Thanks.. that`s what also i thought but some Saudi`s are already into this kind of business, i don`t know much about Saudi Law when it comes to things like this.
Anyhow,1 more week I will be collecting my payment for my 1st month, if I will not get any payment within a week or two these means I have been deceived. And this i will complain to authorities.
@Leo — do you read Arabic? Here’s an article I read through Google translate and thought it may have some bearing on the situation.
It is about another scam in Saudi who issued a fake fatwa in the name of a minister. That minister, as you can imagine, is not pleased to see his name used like that.
http://www.alazd.net/news.php?action=show&id=14933
here’s what Islamic scholars say about MLM: haram
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Islam-947/2008/8/multi-level-marketing.htm
Interesting, since it makes sense from a business perspective, too. The basic laws of business are pretty simple, “deliver something of value into a market”, “right price, right quantiy, right quality, to the right time” plus “having the right intentions”.
The primary function of MLM should be cost reductions, making it possible for a business to expand into different markets without having to invest tons of money. In reality, most MLM’s are using the business model for other purposes.
MLM and pyramid schemes are unlawful after Islamic Laws in 4 different ways, with lots of subpoints to some of them.
1. It entails the two kinds of unlawful interest:
2. It entails an unlawful degree of transactional uncertainty (gharar)
3. It entails taking the money of others falsely.
4. It entails deception and fraud.
I had to skip most of the subpoints, but they were mostly related to “the true nature of something” (the true nature of the business model is not what it pretends to be).
Guys, THERE IS NO SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS.
Don’t waste your time with these kind of bogus schemes instead do some work.
Please spend your money wisely..don’t put yourself in the future trouble…thinns might look ok now..but in the next few months..only God knows..
if you dare to invest..you must be dare to looose or gain..
@ivan
if i join the gold membership of $500 and do not recruit people and rely only in viewing the ads which they say you will have $50 per week, how long will i earn this 50$? 1 year or 6months?
Its good to know the negative and positive factors, it also promoting the business to people. They may join or not but still they are talking in another ways.
I joined 6 months back and I really earned dollars. My only worry now is withdraw the money by bank. Every time when I check the message is there /Cash withdrawal suspended. please try after some time/ What does it meant?
I was trying to withdraw from last month. Does anyone knows why the transaction is suspended? For others -hey this is a very good business which I liked. And I recommed people who are not members of LAC, please make sure that u get the right information before respond to anything. cheers.
Just make sure it’s not against your religion to cheat.
@Ajith
It means there aren’t enough new members joining so there isn’t enough money to pay out. The scam is falling apart.
Dear Oz,
Are you a member of localadclick?
Ajith
No.
hi everyone i am back 😛 .. seems like localadclick is not giving any ads anymore? any info guys?
LocalAdClick is merely a clone of a Ponzi scheme in the US called Ad Surf Daily. ASD’s headman, Andy Bowdoin, just plead guilty to wire fraud not too long ago (back in end of May).
Clearly, LAC’s real owners are eager to avoid the same fate, and actually want to SPEND some of that money you gave them.
waiting for more clarity from all posters thanks 2 all for posting clarity on this issue
believe me guys Local Ad Click is scammers company. be carful and try send warrning to any one for stop that i have friends lose them money and that is sad.
if you try contact the support there they not answer to you.
LocalAdClick is Company of Thieves, They stole money ..
oh my god i will report them to FBI. please dont deal with them they are scammers.
is there a problem of paying to the subscribers in local adclick these days? is they pay as agreed now a days?
expecting your feedbacks and advices anil…….. is it a real scam? tell us.
I was not convinced about LAC and then i take my decision to go with it and its 100% real we expected some troubles and they pass em all.
You can take your decision just be aware of some members whom not even registered and they don’t want any one to go with that .
100% real in that they have a bogus classified website and pay out members based on the recruitment of new members.
Yeah, “real”.
I just got the details of LocalAdClick thru 1 of my close friend. A local franchise agent came to my flat (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and show me the details thru a powerpoint slideshow and even an islamic scholarly seminar which supports this type of business.
But since I have been in the net business for the past decade, hence when he left, I simply googled and found this article. I will sure aware my friend and his friends to be away from this fake business.
Dear All,
After reading all these comments , following are my points:
1. When we get new ID , some portion of our fee goes to company and remaining distributed to existing members who have watch ads and have some points in their wallet.
2. This is a chain of people, everyone who is getting ID is just thinking , that if this company runs for at least three months , his money is safe , in this way , new people are getting new IDs
3. Yes, this is true , the person who has got ID is getting dollars 150 per week only from where he got the ID , company is not paying him , the procedure is , you just transfer dollars (what-ever in your wallet) to your team-leader and ask him to give you dollars from his pocket, as he is making IDs for new people, he has enough money with him , so he will pay you.
Last request to every one, Just get ID , if you have 1300$ spare and you can afford loss of them , and you want to enjoy, and you have courage to face loss, other-wise don’t think about it, it is dangerous.
Regards
Barkaat
…so accept the entire thing is a pyramid scheme – but encourage people to enjoy it anyway if they ‘have $1300 to
throw awayspare‘.Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
MLM and any sort of money game (pyramid scheme or Ponzi scheme) are haram. It doesn’t matter if you have money to spare or not.
Dear All,
I am again , someone told me that they are not getting money from us , he told me the procedure of getting new ID is :
If i need new ID i will goto my team leader and if he has 1300$ in his wallet he will take 1300 from me and will create a new ID.
But if he don’t have 1300 in his wallet, he will ask other ID holders to transfer some points(dollars) in his account, and when i give 1300 to him, he will give same dollars to others and will keep his dollars whit him. So this is the procedure to create new ID, in this way you can understand that nothing is going to company, all is divided among the existing members.
2nd thing he told me , that company is only getting money from advertisement , and they are nothing paying to members from their pocket.
even then one question is still there in my mind. If company is getting money from ads, then why they are not putting ads on daily basis , why they put ad after 10 days(week is spoken), why ads are limited to 5 only.
And now , transfer points between members is also disabled. It means we cannot take money from our team-leader
Please correct me , if i am wrong in any point.
Regards
Barkaat
Members transferring money to eachother and bypassing the company altogether is cash gifting.
As per the review, the Local AdClick advertising network is bogus. They just copy and paste classified ads from other networks. They obviously aren’t getting money for this.
As per your above example members purchase $1,300 memberships from the company and resell them to new members, this is where the money comes from. Nothing is purchased or sold other than membership, meaning it’s a pyramid scheme.
The additional advertising earnings side of things puts it into pyramid/Ponzi hybrid territory.
localadclick is scam and this guy Barkaat is scammer.
he just want transfer cash from his credit to cash. stop scam man and go to ur company scam localadclick.
hi guys i am one of Victims of localadclick.
my friend cheat me for join to this fake company, in the end i know why my friend invaite me to this cuz he want
Transfer his balance in the account to cash cuz the localadclick not pay and not Transfer Commissions this company only take money but not give ?
how the members get cash from cheat others people, try contact that company but no one answer? They are protecting themselves from offline to you do not have evidence you are dealing with the company? no telehpone NO emails NO answer ?
I do not think there are companies that pay ten dollars to watch ads ? cuz this companies know alot people not going to buy them Products?
localadclick steal the ads from youtube and any ads site for cheat the memebers that all ? stay with ur self and think about that.
Hi all,
I’m from Malaysia and attended this localadclick briefing few weeks ago. I knew its a scam and can only last for a short time, and its a matter of time until the can of worms will reveal itself.
So those who are in, will definitely get burned.
I challenged the presenter on a lot of topics including telling him they have no product to sell. Its really dumb website with cheap and childish games. Even putting video online. Du-uh..
We have so much website offering that for free. Those who would like to sit in front of the pc and start watching videos of university presentation, please enjoy yourself in this site. <
Its all nonsense and they are just getting revenue from selling membership. End of the day, I don't think he appreciate my presence. Anyway, its to avoid my friend and more members from getting burned.
Those who are early birds will get money and this is how they get the ball rolling. These early birds will do all the brainwashing and luck will run out soon.
Cheers!
somebody should stop the website…dont keep yourself fooling people….God is there you cannot escape..
I made mistake in joining this LAC, up to now i did not have my investment fully return and the payment is stop so there is no more chance to have my money.
To all the people out there who is not a member of LAC this is a monkey business dont believe what they will tell you. To my upliners who lie and cheat just to earn money you will pay the price someday.
Hi,
Its always depend on your upline or your team position, we can see that most of the companies already got a not responsible uplines and this is what the LAC have .
Myself i’ve been told that this is totally risky from my upline and that what iam telling my downlines although i am getting paid as well from both of the company and upline.
The downlines still under increasing and we wont forget that everyone sign up knows that its risky and this is how the companies start in its early years whoever is it, we knows and we will complete what we start .
Regards,
Mohammed
Yeah I’m justa gunna go ahead and say that anyone who suggests that “companies” have randoms pay out commissions from their own money rather than through the company in their early years, is plainly talking out of their arse.
All that’s happened here is that a bunch of “franchisees” bought membership positions from LAC and are now trying to sell them. When you purchase one, whether or not you get paid appears to be dependent on whether or not this franchisee sells memberships (PINS) that week.
If not, you don’t get paid.
That’s not risk people, that’s a pyramid scheme.
am member in this company since last April and i can tell u i ear money only from watching videos . and i cash out mu first profit through my up-line who live in ksa and i life in Dubai .
now i have money in account in company and i send email to ask for withdrew but no respond .and i dont know how to cash out my money …..????????
@hoda
Sounds like you didn’t earn anything and it’s not your money, not if you can’t cash it out.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say your upline has up and run with your money.
we all such hoda
we earn but not catch any money
no answer
no phone
no email
this company is scammers
Well, getting paid to watch Youtube videos and a competely fake classified site… what did you expect?
in the begnning i dont believe that but my friend tell me it true but now i trying this and now know it fake and scam.
but i wish all people know that localadclick is fake busniess and scammers company.
Hey you guy,s grow up. Just because you dont foind whois info, dont assume its a scam website. This is how this site works: you choose any of the three packages. They send you advertisements to your account. It comes in videos and slideshows.
once you finish watching the ads you get e-pins. You can change it to cash from e-pin centers. This is a new website that is trying to become famous like google, Msn and yahoo.
The videos are from Youtube… and slideshows? Lol?
Yes and where do these “e-pin centers” get their money from? They get money when a new member joins and purchases ‘any of the three packages‘.
Pyramid scheme.
YOU CANNOT GENERATE EPINS NOW, IT IS CONTROLLED BY UPLINE OR WHAT THEY CALL FRANCHISEE…IF THERE IS NO TRUTH ABOUT THIS COMPANY BETTER TO LET EVERYONE KNOWS AND CLOSE THE WEBSITE…
CLOSE THE WEBSITE…DONT KEEP FOOLING PEOPLE…GOD IS THERE WATCHING YOU…
I want to claim the money from localad.net direct from company i don’t know how please help me
Being a scam and all, as far as I know that’s not possible.
i think this guy Sugan staff from localadclick. i dont like the guy who cheat him self that bad thing
I’m delirious victims of the company’s fraudulent
They stole our money and took advantage of our dreams
Ask God take revenge on this company and of which let us know it
for all members, dont desire more to have money from people, stop buying epins from dubai, dont believe their messages….it is a scam….just help to stop the website…
this one is a pyramid don’t do this .sri lanka stoped this.
up line person did not change or pay money.they are cheating peoples over the word ask from sri lanken member for new details.
this one is a pyramid don’t do this. sri lanka stoped this.
up line person did not change or pay money. they are cheating peoples over the word ask from sri lanken member for new details.
Open your eyes and think again.
Stealing money by cheating people and keeping stolen money is prohibited under the law of all countries.
Do they deposit money directly to your bank account, after being watched ad-station videos, just like updates show in ad-station record?
Maybe If they adopted to that system it would be the end of every ones’ money??
If you could disseminate these information within your community by all possible means are highly appreciated and take necessary actions to inform relevant civil authorities and mass media.
Hey there, interesting discussion over this company I see. I believe it may be a scam since it looks to good to be true, but again, if someone was to come and tell you to invest in gold and get back 50-60% profits in 20 years about 20 years back, you may have said scam.. so I guess it just depends on yourself, take the risk, or not to take it.
They pay out like many say, is true, the company just reshuffles the income, others pay, you earn, but come to think about it, if no one buys microsoft products, how can they pay their employees?
Hence, isn’t it just business? To reshuffle money and end of the day the owners make most? afterall, they put in the initial effort, scam or not, I would say Local AdClick is a fine place to risk your USD400 🙂
owh and also, do what I did, invest USD400, and don’t recruit people, just watch the advertisements, where ever they come from and get paid 50 usd a week, so you cover your cost, don’t recruit so you’re not lieing to anyone
IF it’s a scam and wala, make about 800USD profit without doing anything.. just a suggestion, please don’t shoot me down! 🙂
So what are the chances that you will NOT get paid, as you will take you 8 weeks (8 x 50 = 400) to recover what you put in?
Which would be fine, if you were the only person on the planet and this whole blog was aimed solely at you.
IF you have, in fact earned $50 per week and IF you are $800 “in profit”it means the HYIP ponzi has been running for a minimum of 24 weeks already.
8 weeks to cover your initial spend and 16 weeks to make a further $800.
Anyone who joined today, expecting a HYIP ponzi autosurf to last another 24 weeks needs to look up their nearest branch of Gamblers Anonymous post haste.
Have they changed their payout conditions?
When I checked it, minimum payouts were “India: $300. Other countries: $500”. And the project seems to have collapsed and been restarted by local distributors several times, running their own local versions of it.
I’m sure you can start your OWN local version after awhile, where you probably can drop all the unnecessary details and just focus on money IN / money OUT. “Deep LocalAdClick, where we pay you for doing absolutely nothing”.–
Im from Malaysia and i just joined this localadclick a month ago. i was very suspicious about their credibility and authenticity, after reading all the comments here.
Please someone can HONESTLY tell me is i a scam? Whenever i go to the Training of this LocalAdclick, when there are people asking about the credibility they just talk something else and they said that the Localadclick will not close its business for atleast 5 years.
I really dont know what to trust anymore. The group which run the money in and out from saudi is Githam Group. This coming october there will be bank transfer. But for that they said the USD we have will be deducted 30% for something and then balance is counted as per the market value of USD.
Now they come up with a rule where you have to recruit people under you within 6months..
New rules as per september. You have to recruit people within 6months, if not you wont be paid for the ads.
The bank transfer your USD virtual money in coming this october but you will be charged 30% from your money and you will get only 70%. you can only do the transaction once in 3months.
I myself watched the Lays chips ads in youtube. exactly like what i watched in Localadclick.
1. If you have to recruit people it’s a pyramid scheme.
2. Nobody is paying you to watch Yotube ads, it’s a scam.
Hi KVSR,
I’m from Malaysia too. I went to this scam seminar once and its a scam. get out , and make sure the money is reflected in your account. Thats how it considered your money. Its the ultimate rule.
cheers.
HI
I joined this scam in April ……..huge bullshit …………i have money in my account but there no withdrawals at all….since 18 March 2012……
some nuts from Srilanka betrayed our entire group of ours where i alone lost USD 1300 ….. if you believe me believe me….. as scroll up i have for message i have clearly mentioned i am joining this LADC for to reveal the secrets ..
this is the time to revel the same and save the people from scam – trust by this way i will be blessed more …what i have lost
do believe it or not …………this is 100 % scam from some huge mafia from India or Srilanka or KSA …………………if you still want to join please ask the moderator for the recent withdrawal report or demonstration
if any one wants my 3 accounts to be transferred to their name which has over + $ 3000 i will transfer all for only $ 1000 – guys who sell / favor for LADC please reply on this as I challenge for sure these nutcases will not reply for my comments……
betrayed member of LADC – ask me more questions – that i will reveal LADC entire scams
this was the message was posted in April …….do you believe it or no ? i can prove this is me only the mail id was changed……
K. Chang is perfectly right !! ……..i remember u Chang ..you advised me not join this scam in april…but i wanted to join to know is this is a cam or no ?? ….now i salute you as you were right ..its a wonderful / awesome /nutcase scam by some asians – i believe this is a joint venture scam from India / Srilanka / KSA
…you read this review and subsequent analysis and discussion, put $300 into the scheme anyway and are now upset that you lost it?
Uh…?
Hey, I ain’t here to put up much of a fuss or argument for LAC, as I myself is a little suspicious, haha but if you don’t have full proof that this is a scam, I think it is not right to say it’s a scam.
Don’t blame the company if your upline back-stabbed you.. It may be a scam, it may not. Money in, money out works everywhere, when you buy shares, it makes no sense, its just a play of money and value of a company, which in the end may bring in good profits for you, but think about it, what are you really buying? company ownership?
no…. you don’t own the company by buying shares, unless you buy majority of them, hence it’s a money in money out thing as well..
Let’s not get out of topic, LAC, is your choice, to put your money in or not. I have put mine in, and made back my capital without recruiting anyone.. 🙂
The classified ads the company claims are their product are proven fake, as evidenced in the review. Thus LAC amounts to nothing more than a pyramid/ponzi hybrid.
Case closed, end of story.
Seriously? as evidenced in the review? It is possible to find the same videos on youtube as it’s just another form of advertisement, like television and youtube, different modes..
Don’t think that’s a strong statement there, an do remember, this review is simply by people like you and me, everyone is just expressing their opinions.. 🙂
Except Oz explained his opinion, supported by logic and evidence. And what exactly do you have, other than your personal doubt?
First it was fake classified ads, now it’s fake YouTube videos. I guarantee you there’s no partnerships between LAC and any advertisers.
It’s all just BS to prop up the circulation of new membership fees between existing members.
Gamunu and Prashanna cheated us (Those are the people in Top most) .. they said they will pay every week but nothing earn so far.
I believe with Oz and Chang, so how could we help our people not to be cheated with his Local Adclick, why cant anyone close the website,….everybody must be aware of this…CLOSE THE WEBSITE.
LocalAdClick.net is really an illegal ponzi scheme (pyramid type Business) as I have understood now though late.
Because of a Sri Lankan Agent, Mr. Sampath Godage, who conducted a workshop on joining, I joined this bogus establishment unknowingly paying $500.00 + $50.00 commission. He said $50.00 a week will be paid but no money is paid yet.
They keep on changing their rules and conditions. Only the bone licking agents of this bogus establishment post positive notes, I challenge them to post genuine proof of their payment or bank details if they could.
More than three months, I have got nothing except clicking their advertisements. May god shower his curse upon these rascals!
IT IS REALLY SO ANNOYING, COULD ANYONE GIVE US THE AGENCY FOR COMPLAIN, COULD ANYONE GO TO INDIA AND COMPLAIN, WHAT IS REALLY THE BEST THING TO DO, SO PEOPLE WILL NOT BE CHEATED LIKE THIS.
Im also from malaysia…the gitam group as the top leader in malaysia and almost india…they recruit the people and give the sweet dream.
Finally these githam group not pay the didviden as company promise…they stole money…bullshit ghitam group everybody in malaysia will kill you and still searching you…mr tevindren your life will not in peace hell come for you.
Dear All!!! None of the MLM company’s in the world is safe…! You have to take a risk in doing any business…,
If you are scared? then stop doing any business and please don’t investigate in any company’s profile and condemn about it. Go and work in a safe and established company. End of the day you are a “Chicken” with NO guts!!!
For your info I am also a LAC member from M’sia of which I am doing this business for 2 months. I have already earned 5 times more from the money I have invested. I will never investigate about the company’s background cos its not useful to me.
My main intention is to take back the money I have put in and earn back maximum money until the company close shop. Those who investigate and never invest in this company are the Loser’s!!!
Stop your homework and think positively. Please don’t listen to rumors and don’t be negative minded.
I wish all LAC member’s success and earn more money as possible…! Don’t listen to negative minded people. Lets do this business until it exist. Best of Luck!!!
^^ Thanks for that, definitely one of the more amusing scam defense comments we’ve had on here.
Cheers.
Uh…wow. Craziest post I’ve read yet.
What a shame Manolito……..You are defending this LAC though you know very well it is a scam…IN BUSINESS THERE IS ALWAYS A RISKS…BUT BUSINESS LIKE LAC WHERE YOU KNOW THAT IT IS CHEATING WILL NEVER LAST.
ASK ANY MEMBER FROM SAUDI ARABIA,THEY WERE NEVER PAID AND THE FIRST 3 UPLINES COULD NO LONGER BE FOUND…HIDING IN DUBAI WHERE LAC WAS INTRODUCED.
this is actually fake site. pls attanayake you can go to piliyandala police you take more complaints about LAC leadears arrested details with scam web site.
also you can ready past news papers with many news with live@8/ I.T.N. what are you say now? are you received from them with bank transfer? ?????this is scam web site.
you can take more informations now with sri lankan LAC situations are bad. because Top (Upliners) with in 3 months or less they will come with their dreams. but downliners need to pay them.
All LAC leaders present flase details with localadclick. this is true. now Sampath Godage/ D.G.Sarath Suranaga/ Rohan Mendis/ Prasanna & many of leaders need faced legal payments with many places in court after the complaints from the LAC members. this is scam web site.
Pls don’t member with LAC. they said with Bank Transfer for all member in sri lanka after the 01st of september. but not yet complted that. but this web site say this is online global business. this is a joke. for the money transfer need only with online in a minute….this is a true with new world…
Pls understand this is fake scam site. Don’t join any one. if you join for earning more you have lost your money…..
They are fooling around with people’s money. They have not yet started the online transfer, there is no return of money due to me since july’12.
dont trast this people, local ad click frad, we lost $ 60000.
until now i disnt get nothing. i join march 2012.
any one here can tell me how vcan i change my details becouse i put wrong with wrong name and wrong email
I’d imagine the best course of action would be via the LocalAdClick website itself.
I hope you didn’t just hand over money to some random with a clipboard selling pins…
@ Mas, I am not a member in Localadclick or Globaladmart yet, but as i knew from my friend that our upline ( if i joined ) gonna pay me so don’t you have an upliner can change ur money ?
another thing !! how come you have over $3000 in your account !! that means you already got downline which means that you would transfer the real money ( New subscriber – Ur downline )from ur E-wallet and get ur cash !
so please explain
MAS
Anyone saying that their is no money and u cant take it, i suggest that ur upliners are thieves and anyway i ve been in this buisness for 2 weeks and have made more than money and i am with all of u that the company still isnt that strong but hope it will be sooner……=)
anyone against keep as you are and stay by the wall and never take risks and you will never make money or otherwise u r a Q-net person that have signed not to be in any company except it and you are afraid ….and thats my opinion
Hi All, I joined this localadclick company in FEB 2012 and upto today no one has received payments from the company.
This is totally scam. They dont reply to our mails and they dont have any contact as well.
Mahmoud, I had worked with this company for one year and I had earn money only by getting friend to join. Finally when I got to know this scam i did not interduce to any one because i might get money fron my friend when they join but on the other hand my friend will loose as the company will not pay you any thing.
I had 18 accounts but did not receive any payment from the company. the company is 18 months old but they are scaming around the world.
Now every one in Saudi, UAE, india, pakistan and sri lanka now this scaming. But they have now started this buisness in other countries as its easy to scam.
Yes.. I agree with Shane and this is totally scam from small time Asian scam planners in the name of US website and targeted the idiots ..i mean innocents of the world.
Dear Mahnoud
The up liners are thieves…… yes I agree as they spend money and try to recover the same from innocents…..& trust you have done the same to recover your losses ……..but the curse will follow you forever ……
trust this is a main scam from Sri Lanka and not from any other country as most of the promoters I see are from Srilanka ……..
so my suggestion is do not include yourselves into this scam and try to achieve your goal/ money or income with honest efforts and try to protect your family from curse (those who believe in destiny)
regards
MAS
@deep
trust ….u are really annoyed of this scam and do not want to admit the same and expect more people join into this scam..to equal you ….right ??