Gimmicks

[PussyCat]

garbage disguised as hard work
Piggybackers love gimmicks because it helps disguise their [piggybacking] behaviour.
Often, Piggybackers spend more time writing emails (or gimmicks) than actually spending time on the actual work or task at hand. This is how you can identify a [piggybacker].
Typically, the piggybackers will frustrate the piggybacked with too much gimmicks to the point that the piggybacked will choose to do it himself/herself.
Praising is a critical weapon in the piggybackers arsenal.
[Piggybacking] and gimmicks are synonymous -- one cannot exist without another.

[Vania]

[Hypodermic] needle used to [inject] [illegal drugs].

[Little_Girl]

something that is not serious or of real value that is used to attract peoples attention or interest temporarily, especially to make them buy something: