To clarify, what I was referring to is called "Black Hat Internet Marketing" which is legal for the most part and extremely profitable, but a bit on the unethical side.

An common example would be those free iPad sites that used to flood the internet. Yes, they would send you a free iPad, but not after manipulating you into giving your data to them so they can sell it to other companies for a profit and getting you to install adware onto your computer (which is legal if the person consents to having it installed), which would in turn data mine everything that you do and sell the info to advertising companies or do other things.

Another example would be building a web site that is built to make ad revenue and siphoning traffic from your competitors (I won't go into detail here because there are a lot of ways to do this and I'm too tired to try to explain it).

Yet another example, and something that a guy in my web development class admitted to helping somebody do, is to get a bunch of throwaway Facebook accounts and then get an Amazon Associates affiliate account which pays you anywhere from 10 cents to a couple dollars for a customer to buy their products through your link and write a PHP script to spam all of the Facebook accounts and make the product data appear to be yours and then use the throwaway Facebook accounts to advertise in Facebook groups that are interested in the particular niche of products that you are "selling". This method could even be twisted further by including your own products or another companies that you become affiliated with.

There are many other twists to these methods and many other methods that I haven't began to talk about. Things like this, I am more than willing to do to get ahead in life because it makes more money and is easier to do than working a regular job or running a regular business. After all, I have suffered and struggled enough in life and I feel like I shouldn't have to any more.