There have been few scams that have yielded as much money as the Lottery scam. In the past, scammers used snail mail to contact their victims; now email directories and spyware are the new ways to get marks for their schemes. The victim will typically receive notification that they’ve won a sweepstakes that will yield a great amount of money.

Handing over the job of attracting customers to a third party is called the process of affiliate marketing. This third party is generally named as the merchant. Generally been involved with the internet this affiliate marketing is taken place with the use of e-mails, search engine optimization and several other popular methods such as marketing through a large internet based community such as Facebook.