Comments on: How To Make 45K a Day Scamming Facebook Ads

By: Policy Watch: Facebook Updates Guidelines Prohibiting Low-Quality Ads

Policy Watch: Facebook Updates Guidelines Prohibiting Low-Quality Ads — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:54:56 +0000

[...] and other riff-raff. But there are other problems to, like user data theft. Here’s an article with some good screenshots from mid-January (be sure to read the comments for various perspectives [...]

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:12:21 +0000

@Gioom: There are screen captures in the posts, with big red circles.

By: Gioom

Gioom — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:40:36 +0000

Has anybody even seen these ads? I advertise on FB a lot and I always browse for competitor ads, but I have never com across such ads. I would really like to see a real life example of this. Pretty interesting.

By: dennis what

dennis what — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:07:09 +0000

Marty, you say you want to avoid attacks from people on Dennis and people calling the man names is not cool but maybe you should tell your readers who the man is so they can judge for themselves if the man is credible or not. Take for example the stories from shoemoney and others who say the man is a scam to this day.

By: xbox live

xbox live — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:59:57 +0000

I used to do a lot of these on gpt sites. They actually pay pretty good and are easy to complete! Sure, they get 1/offer and i would only get like 40 cents, but it still worked. This would especially work great if you could get a cpa offer on there

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:59:51 +0000

We’ve published a new article, speaking to the comments thread in this post. We’d be interested in your feedback. Here’s the link: http://www.aimclearblog.com/2010/01/27/why-we-reserve-the-right-to-truncate-your-irrelevant-whiny-comment/

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:50:05 +0000

In the last 24 hours, we’ve deleted a handful of comments which contained radical personal attacks, but had nothing to do with this post’s content. We invite anyone to participate in aimClear Blog’s conversations. That said, please speak to the issues and skip the ignorant attacks.

To those immature few whose sad comments we deleted: I think you doth protest too much.

By: Jonah Stein

Jonah Stein — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:14:16 +0000

If you make money deceiving users and slamming them into hidden charges that show up on their phone or their credit card, you are a scammer and a parasite. Don’t hide behind the affiliate marketing label and tarnish the reputation of legitimate affiliates as well as other online marketers just because you are amoral.

TechCrunch has yet another expose today which is revealing that yet another high flying company, this time Snackable Media, is make over $150 million a year by deceiving people and taking advantage of the difference between legal and ethical.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/20/complaints-snackable-media-scamville-mobile-phones

The damage to the web economy is real and affects all of us. The latest statics show online marketing is getting about 25% or all marketing dollars in the U.S., compared to over 50% in countries like the UK that have better consumer protection regulations. The gap, I suggest to you, is largely because brands are reluctant to go all in on the internet because of an accurate perception that it is not a safe place to do business. Companies legitimacy is enhanced when they advertise on TV but there is no halo to branding on an affiliate blighted wasteland.

The solution to this problem is for marketers to realize that WE are also the victims of these scams. Stop turning a blind eye to reverse billing scams and cell phone monetization. Stop allowing them on our sites or in our conferences. Rally around those people , like Dennis, who are suffering the consequences of publicly outing scams and taking money out of scammers pockets.

I side with those who evoke omerta when it comes to outing paid links and SEO secrets, but outing people who prey on users with deceptive ads and hidden charges is a different story.

These scammers may be your drinking buddies, but they are not your friends.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:58:35 +0000

Why don’t we start naming these outfits so everyone knows who they are. Why should they be allowed to operate w/o disclosure.

By: Gail - GrowMap

Gail - GrowMap — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:01:36 +0000

Thanks Marty. Many in our blog collaboration group will be there so I let them know about you in our Event section and when you would be there. They may have clients who could really use the most brilliant SEO I know (you).