It’s really a crying shame that so many people online can’t try to make a living legitimately. Believe it or not, it’s actually easier to earn a six figure income yearly by hard work, honesty and integrity than by trying to con people. In this article, I am going to go over one of the biggest cons that really ticks me off to no end. I’m talking about fake testimonials. Trust me, they are all over the place. Most are very difficult to pick out because they are so well done, but a few are so obvious and others can be uncovered with a little detective work. This article is going to cover a few techniques to do just that.

One way to uncover a fake testimonial is to look at the photo of the person who is giving the testimonial. The really good cons will dig up a photo to make the testimonial look more legit. Trust me, a photo does not make a testimonial legit. But how do you know? Well, there is a real simple way to find out. Take the name of the person who belongs to the photo and plug it into the Google image search. Most likely, if it’s a well known marketer, you will see the real photos of what this person looks like. The chances that it won’t match the photo on the testimonial is very great because most cons don’t bother to do their research on what a person really looks like. Just recently, I uncovered a web site with a testimonial by a well known marketer by the name of Willie Crawford. I immediately recognized that the photo wasn’t his. Thus, a fake testimonial.

Another way to pick out the fake testimonials is to take a snip of the text of the testimonial itself and plug it into a Google search. See, what a lot of these cons do is they lift testimonial text off of another sales page and just put it on their own page. Should you find that the text appears on another web site or sales page, there is a very good chance that this was a lifted testimonial.

The above two methods are by no means fool proof. Plus, there are going to be testimonials that don’t look real, because there are no photos or full names. Believe it or not though, some people either don’t have photos or don’t want them plastered on the Internet. Most of my testimonials have photos but there are a few that I have where the person just didn’t want anybody to know who they are…not even a link to their site. Darned if I can figure out why anybody wouldn’t want publicity. But that’s another matter.

Anyway, hope these tips help you uncover some bogus testimonials that you might run across.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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