Fraud Alert – Affiliate Network Accounts for Sale
I frequent a lot of affiliate forums and have seen a growing number of people trying to buy and sell affiliate network accounts recently. I even get PMs, mainly over at DigitalPoint, from people trying to buy network accounts. You know if they have to buy accounts they are up to no good and are probably fraudsters. And you know if people are selling accounts there’s a pretty good market for them.
The guys at the MediaTrust blog posted about this problem yesterday and have been seeing lots of buy and sell affiliate accounts action on Twitter. Here’s their post about it.
Fraud Alert – Accounts for Sale
“So why should you care about this? Well, first off, if you’re a publisher, this is exactly the type of thing that gives our industry a bad name. It will cause networks to clamp down even tighter on who they accept – possibly excluding great potential affiliates in the process. If you’re a network, you should care because your credibility, and bottom line is at stake with your advertisers. Fraud is hard enough to police – now we have to worry about the buying and selling of affiliate accounts for the sole purpose of defrauding the networks and their advertisers?”
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#1 Mark Olsen wrote on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009:
This is exactly what I have seen happen that has brought down entire networks. It is fraud at its worst!
#2 peter bordes wrote on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009:
PLEASE everyone Tweet, post, link to, get into your forums communities, facebook and social channels.
The best way to fight this is to expose it and openlt talk about these issues. this is where transparency is king and key. we must all work together to stop this behavior that hurts everyone in the industry and our industries reputation.
Linda thank you so much for posting this. i hope other will to and also share their stories and insights.
@MediaTrustpete