Worst of all they give hard-working Newbies like myself bad rep 
You are a different type of newbie for sure. You're not supporting it lol. But seriously, a red flag can be seen when newbies are the ones that make the service seem "legitimate" but it's not gonna work for members of the forum who has seen almost everything.This is truly the worst kind of advertising from a site and they are doing this with the help of the accounts which are still newbie in rank. We all should be thankful to theymos for implementing the merit system on the forum because if merit system wasn't implemented on the forum then such newbies would be Jr Members, Members, or Full members in rank only by posting such useless comments.
Back to the main topic. I also believe that this post is the worst way to scam out people and the marketing tactic is similar to the ones that most of the scammers use. I would recommend everyone to avoid this service at cost if you want to be on safe side.