Found many scammers who sell services on blackhatworld marketplace
I was just browsing blackhatworld (blackhatworld.com) marketplace forum where sellers sell their services especially SMM (social media marketing) like selling instagram likes, youtube video likes, etc. as well as selling backlink indexing services (which mostly use spam techniques and deceptive methods to index url in google and bing) and also backlink sellers which sell high DA/DR links from their own PBN (again this hurts your money site as they use shaddy internet marketing tricks) and linkbuilding SEO and SEO packages which are mostly overprice and then undelivered or users get low quality backlinks or content written. I’ve seen sellers selling proxies, fake google reviews and trustpilot reviews, etc. At first this look lucrative and good for money site but once you buy those services you find them not worthful a penny!
Here is how blackhatworld sellers undertake scam: From a buyer’s own post
I paid $600 for a service (from blackhatworld marketplace) that was supposed to provide 1,050 DMs and 10 comments on Reddit. The delivery was promised within 7 days, but on the 6th day, the person deleted all of our previous Telegram chats.
When I asked why, they claimed they had been hacked and requested 2 more days.
Because of this, I lost trust — and since the work hadn’t even started, I asked for a refund.After that, the person blocked me on Telegram and disappeared.
And there are many scammers on blackhatworld. So, is there not any trust forum or community which is much safer for buyers to buy backlink services or reddit upvotes/comments? Many elder memebers have written that they’ve completely lost trust and faith in the BHW marketplace. Here is what I found.. its a hub of scammers and trolls.
Yeah, its better to avoid from purchasing backlinks, PBN services, or indexing services from BHW. Also there are many attempts that fraudsters use that site. They’ll ask you to contact them on telegram or other outside channel, take payment and promise a service like writing 5 star google review or trustpilot review or sell adsense account or reddit account with karma etc. and then block you. Its better to deal with such sellers on BHW platform itself via DM. Even I’ve seen people creating Jr VIP member ship to sell in the marketplace and quickly vanish after taking money. Though many sellers are genuine. but you never no who and when they’ll disappear!
Some black-hat-world sellers are legit but there services may not. It may not be of the highest quality if you want especially SEO services like backlink building then better buy from an agency listed on google and which is local. As HQ backlink building is costly and task can spread over few months to an year you can work closely with a local SEO expert by visiting their office rather than dealing on any marketplace.
I’ve seen people buying reddit upvotes and reddit accounts too from such marketplace and then getting banned on reddit. Same with buying adsense account and you’ll see it gets banned. Users buying google reviews see them getting removed in couple of months. Also it as many fraud affiliate programs and ad networks who advertise huge commission as payment and never pays or just close publishers account. Better work with genuine and real sellers on blackhatworld or such sites like flippa (even fraud happens when you buy site from flippa) or even ebay! All services look legit until proven.
There is inherent risk in buying things that are against policies of platforms (e.g. fake reviews). Even if the service is delivered, it may be reversed, removed, or penalized. Users moving conversations outside the marketplace, promises of very quick delivery, high volume, etc., are all red flags in dispute resolution. Marketplace platforms that offer “black hat” types of services (fake reviews, fake engagement, private blog network (PBN) links, etc.) tend to attract bad actors.