NOT the way I want to start my TGIF today after a long week. This crap gets my blood boiling when I see it because its such a blatantly open unethical slap in our industry’s face. The issue is this behavior soliciting affiliate network accounts on MediaTrust, ClickBooth and CX Interactive. Make no mistake, this is a fraud ring buying accounts to run scams. Is everyone else as disturbed by this behavior that needs to be stopped in its tracks? This is how our industry gets damaged. These fraud rings are at the the root of some of the major the issues confronting legitimate networks, affiliate and advertisers who are building long term businesses and value.  As an industry, he legitimate firms are fighting things like this to defend the advertisers, publishers, and consumers in our ecosystem . We all need to be working closer together to squash affiliate rings by sharing information and openly calling this out by publicly leveraging social media when we see it and stop o stop it in its tracks. Please join the fight to stop these activities by posting in your own blog, Tweeting, and Facebooking this post out….  tweet this:

Fraudster @cebu_istorya is using @freelancer to buy #affiliate network accounts http://tinyurl.com/2vpw2vl for credit card #fraud STOP THEM

Here’s what I found this morning:

My Tweetdeck picked up this Tweet asking for approval to buy accounts on CX Digital , ClickBooth & MediaTrust by http://www.twitter.com/cebu_istorya

When you click on the link it takes you to a page on FreeLancer.com a site for bidding on free lance work. The buyer clearly does not speak English ( seems Russian ) based on their inability to spell. The most disturbing part is having the nerve say in their solicitation: “6), You should be honest,trustworthy and work seriously.” when they are doing something that is beyond dishonest & shady. You will see in the link section that there are several of these going on in the site.

The best way to stop this is to get involved and take the time to pass this along. Report this to Twitter and FreeLancer.com. The more chatter and transparency everyone makes the faster this gets stopped. Please add any further info in the comments of this post re other places like this that need to get outed and i will post and tweet it.