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]]> By: Affiliate Marketing Nuts and Bolts » Blog Archive » This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories September 25, 2009 http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9429 Affiliate Marketing Nuts and Bolts » Blog Archive » This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories September 25, 2009 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:19:14 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9429 [...] Fraud Alert: Accounts For Sale? Scott Parent, writing on the Media Trust blog says, “We’ve noticed a pretty alarming trend in the industry over the past few months here at Media Trust — the concept of people “buying” affiliate accounts on our platform and other networks. At first glance I wondered why would you need to do that.” Then Scott goes on to explain the how and why of this fraud. [...] [...] Fraud Alert: Accounts For Sale? Scott Parent, writing on the Media Trust blog says, “We’ve noticed a pretty alarming trend in the industry over the past few months here at Media Trust — the concept of people “buying” affiliate accounts on our platform and other networks. At first glance I wondered why would you need to do that.” Then Scott goes on to explain the how and why of this fraud. [...]

]]> By: Affiliate Classroom Blog » Blog Archive » This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories September 25, 2009 http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9428 Affiliate Classroom Blog » Blog Archive » This Week’s Top Affiliate Marketing News Stories September 25, 2009 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:47:03 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9428 [...] Fraud Alert: Accounts For Sale? Scott Parent, writing on the Media Trust blog says, “We’ve noticed a pretty alarming trend in the industry over the past few months here at Media Trust — the concept of people “buying” affiliate accounts on our platform and other networks. At first glance I wondered why would you need to do that.” Then Scott goes on to explain the how and why of this fraud. [...] [...] Fraud Alert: Accounts For Sale? Scott Parent, writing on the Media Trust blog says, “We’ve noticed a pretty alarming trend in the industry over the past few months here at Media Trust — the concept of people “buying” affiliate accounts on our platform and other networks. At first glance I wondered why would you need to do that.” Then Scott goes on to explain the how and why of this fraud. [...]

]]> By: Performance Marketing Alliance http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9416 Performance Marketing Alliance Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:16:01 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9416 Please make sure to Tweet, post and push into everyones social channels and forums. this is a very important effort we need everyone to participate in. Please make sure to Tweet, post and push into everyones social channels and forums. this is a very important effort we need everyone to participate in.

]]> By: Fraud Alert – Affiliate Network Accounts for Sale - 5 Star Affiliate Blogs http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9395 Fraud Alert – Affiliate Network Accounts for Sale - 5 Star Affiliate Blogs Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:36:39 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9395 [...] The MediaTrust blog posted about this problem yesterday and has been seeing lots of buy and sell affiliate accounts action on Twitter. Here’s their post about it. Fraud Alert – Accounts for Sale [...] [...] The MediaTrust blog posted about this problem yesterday and has been seeing lots of buy and sell affiliate accounts action on Twitter. Here’s their post about it. Fraud Alert – Accounts for Sale [...]

]]> By: Peter Bordes http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9388 Peter Bordes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:21:09 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9388 Steve thank you and i would love to see that post and listen to that recording. let me know when its live. please place the link in this comment string so it gets out and we will tweet and push it out thru our social channels. We have even seen the fraud groups be so bold as to going into forums and soliciting accounts from affiliate managers of all things. we are sick and tired of this activity as it hurts everyone including the consumer.. it has even caused us to have to remove any and all publishers from our platform who cannot fit our TRUSTED PARTNER criteria and we have been looking at going as far as a publisher hacving to be recommended to get join us. we must all be transparent and openly speak about this activity so we can work together to stop it. love to speak my friend. thank you for taking the time to create that recording. lets get it out all over the place. I would like to get the Performance Marketing Alliance to post about it! i will ping you today Steve thank you and i would love to see that post and listen to that recording. let me know when its live. please place the link in this comment string so it gets out and we will tweet and push it out thru our social channels.

We have even seen the fraud groups be so bold as to going into forums and soliciting accounts from affiliate managers of all things. we are sick and tired of this activity as it hurts everyone including the consumer.. it has even caused us to have to remove any and all publishers from our platform who cannot fit our TRUSTED PARTNER criteria and we have been looking at going as far as a publisher hacving to be recommended to get join us. we must all be transparent and openly speak about this activity so we can work together to stop it.

love to speak my friend. thank you for taking the time to create that recording. lets get it out all over the place.

I would like to get the Performance Marketing Alliance to post about it!

i will ping you today

]]> By: Steve Howe http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9380 Steve Howe Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:20 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9380 Hey Pete, Great post indeed. We have seen this practice going on now for well over a year. It seems that most networks, and affiliate managers at the respectable networks have been able to see through the typical "fraud/templated" website/ landing pages that come through the applications daily. I am sure this put a dent in the global operation. I actually caught a frauder and recorded a 40 minute plus conversation yet to be posted who was doing this very thing. The would be fraudster revealed that he could make a solid $500 / day getting applications approved in networks that simply did not give a shit. He went on to tell me that he had even had several account approved in a single day from the same affiliate manager. I would have to admit that methods and tactics to penetrate the networks and have gone to a whole new level. I have spoken with several people in the industry about the need for some sort of publisher verification. Similar to when signing up for an online bank account or similar. I would be more than happy to share and discuss some of the techniques we have developed in house to deter these accounts from getting into our network. Feel free to hit me up on AIM or email. Hey Pete, Great post indeed. We have seen this practice going on now for well over a year. It seems that most networks, and affiliate managers at the respectable networks have been able to see through the typical “fraud/templated” website/ landing pages that come through the applications daily. I am sure this put a dent in the global operation. I actually caught a frauder and recorded a 40 minute plus conversation yet to be posted who was doing this very thing. The would be fraudster revealed that he could make a solid $500 / day getting applications approved in networks that simply did not give a shit. He went on to tell me that he had even had several account approved in a single day from the same affiliate manager.

I would have to admit that methods and tactics to penetrate the networks and have gone to a whole new level.

I have spoken with several people in the industry about the need for some sort of publisher verification. Similar to when signing up for an online bank account or similar.

I would be more than happy to share and discuss some of the techniques we have developed in house to deter these accounts from getting into our network. Feel free to hit me up on AIM or email.

]]> By: Ruben http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9379 Ruben Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:19:25 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9379 Great Post Great Post

]]> By: Tweets that mention Fraud Alert: Accounts For Sale? | Mediatrust Blog -- Topsy.com http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/fraud-alert-accounts-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-9367 Tweets that mention Fraud Alert: Accounts For Sale? | Mediatrust Blog -- Topsy.com Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:01:48 +0000 http://blog.mediatrust.com/?p=1739#comment-9367 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by PMA and John Caldwell. John Caldwell said: RT @LashBackLLC: Be on the lookout for a new source of fraud in affiliate marketing: http://bit.ly/117UEs [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by PMA and John Caldwell. John Caldwell said: RT @LashBackLLC: Be on the lookout for a new source of fraud in affiliate marketing: http://bit.ly/117UEs [...]

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