Excessive Online Poker Marketing or Simply an Old Fashioned Scam?

Carl Valentine who in a bizarre bet sought website support visits in order to save his finger from being amputated, was called by an online poker player, and his ploy has turned out to be a scam to attract traffic.

The website SaveMyFinger.com first made its appearance sometime last year, acting as an appeal to visitors for help for "Valentine". By April 18th 2006, the site had attracted 2 million visitors with the intent of saving him from having to meet the terms of a wager in which his right index finger was the wager.

It transpired this week, just as many had already suspected, that the whole affair was a scam.  The anonymous webmaster discounted this deliberate deception as being a simple marketing experiment which was directed at taking advantage of the sympathy of online poker players in order to create major traffic for the site, and the rewards that presumably would flow from that in terms of advertising and exposure.

While dismissing this Carl Valentine deception as being just a funny story, the less than honest webmaster made known that the point behind the website was literally to carry out an experiment with regard to Viral Marketing. He made it known that he was happy to announce that it was his estimation that the experiment had worked. It was his intent to prove through this experiment that it is possible to set up a website and virtually within days, or even hours, already be getting massive numbers of hits.

The unnamed webmaster boasts that altogether there were a total of 1.601.255 unique visitors that accessed SaveMyFinger.com since its being launched on December 12, 2005.

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