Traffic Monsoon Review: A ponzi scheme disguised as a traffic exchange?
Products
Traffic Monsoon offers a variety of traffic generating products, which include banner ad clicks and delivering visits to websites.
The main product you should focus on are so called AdPacks. They come with a $50 price tag and in return you will get 20 banner ad clicks, 1000 visits to your website and one revenue sharing position. This sharing position will generate $55 cash back. At the current rates it takes around 55 days for one position to mature.
In other words, this company is basically selling you free advertising and as a thank you gift for taking advantage of this offer, they add an extra $5.
Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?
Compensation plan
As an affiliate of this company, you will receive 10% commission on every purchase one of your personally enrolled referrals makes.
Who is behind Traffic Monsoon?
The website does not state who owns or runs Traffic Monsoon, nor does it list a contact address. Only a phone number and a contact form is provided. The domain is registered with the aid of a whois privacy protection agent.
Registrant Organization: WHOIS PRIVACY PROTECTION SERVICE, INC.
Registrant Street: PO BOX 639
Registrant Street: C/O TRAFFICMONSOON.COM
Registrant City: KIRKLAND
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98083
Registrant Country: US
If a company is not upfront with you on who owns it or where it is located, think very hard before handing over any money!
Further research reveals that trafficmonsoon.com is operated by a company called Traffic Monsoon LLC, which is owned by Charles Scoville.
Company Type: LLC – Domestic
Address: 4927 Murray Blvd Z9 Murray, UT 84123
State of Origin:
Registered Agent: Charles Scoville
Registered Agent Address:
4927 Murray Blvd Z9
Murray, UT 84123
Registration Date: 09/29/2014
Why do I think it’s a scam?
The past of Charles Scoville
In his past, Charles Ponzi Scoville has owned several paid to click websites. He claims that these sites simply went out of business because people stopped using them.
To find an answer to the arising question of why these people would stop using websites which, as he claims, were running fine and always paying, I found some interesting articles and forum postings.
A forum posting about infinitybux, a site owned by Mr. Scoville:
Another forum posting, but this time about tviptc, also owned by Charles:
There are a lot more of these reports and I invite you to do your own research on the past of Mr. Scoville.
Revenue source of Traffic Monsoon
When it comes to the income source of this company, there is one big and yet unanswered question.
Where are the $5 profit coming from that every AdPack generates?
Charles and all the big promoters of Traffic Monsoon are telling their crowds that all the other products, like banner clicks and bought traffic (without a sharing position) would generate the needed money to pay back the extra $5.
The problem with this answer is, all the other products basically offer the exact same service you would get by buying AdPacks. There is absolutely no incentive for anyone to buy anything else than AdPacks.
Imagine I would offer you 2 apples, one for $5 and the other one for $10. If you pick the one for $10, I will give you the apple and $15. Which one do you buy?
Another reason I strongly believe that there are no other purchases than AdPacks are all the videos put out by the top recruiters of this business (and even Charles himself).