I love the ones on a background-check site, that has a bar moving, then they say "we've found 50 results, buy a report".  They tell everybody the same thing.<br>or<br>Phony malware checkers (usually the popup variety) which have animated gifs of moving bars and then says "we found 5,000 problems, download our anti-malware malware.<br>No progress bar will have ever moved quite as smoothly, snappliy or reliably as their little gifs.<br>It's like the worse your internet connection is, the more wise you are to them.