I remember the eMunie beta launch, and exchanged a couple of PMs with the guy though didn't follow it up. I didn't learn enough about eMunie to form an opinion then and haven't now.
That aside, my comment is specifically about your comments regarding the
Black Hat World (BHW) forum.
Daniel also had membership on Blackhatworld
Sounds scary. Please continue.
So we know what Daniel was doing for a living - he was running scams.
Your immediate conclusion is that because the forum has a scary name, it must centre around scamming people? Continuing without comment..
You then post a thread in which the guy brags about his Amazon affiliate income. Are you by this point starting to get a sense of the fact that BHW isn't what you thought it was?
Finally you come out with this little gem, my favourite bit.
no normal person posts on a website full of criminals and scammers. No normal person brags about making $1500 by stealing from other people. If Daniel took pride by stealing that much money - imagine how much pleasure it would be if he stole $1 million from Bitcoin users.
Now.. BHW is generally frequented by
people who practice SEO - across the whole spectrum, from well-known white hat internet marketers, many working for Fortune 500 companies, to hardcore black hats dropping hundreds of thousands of spammy web pages and backlinks across the internet on a daily basis.
The tools of their trade enable content scraping, spinning and auto publishing, but certainly
not the botnets and credit card theft that you insinuate with your ill-informed thoughts on BHW.
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A lot of the regulars on BHW are affiliate marketers (like the eMunie guy) looking to improve their income through reselling Amazon products, Payday Loans, Insurance, Gaming etc. To these people, black hat isn't financial cybercrime - its hardcore flouting of Google's webmaster guidelines.
As well as those black hat marketers who use web spam techniques to maximum effect, BHW attracts a lot of regular marketing professionals who like to ensure they've got the full picture when it comes to what is known about the known unknown of Google's search algorithm. If you know whats working or not for spammers, who are generally doing the most invasive prodding of the algo, you can know how extreme (or not) to go with your traditional marketing.
Like I said, I don't have an opinion about eMunie (or the rest of your post) at all, but I can't have you spouting rubbish without pulling you up on it.