Posts by Kellie Stevens
Audacious Affiliate Uses Merchant’s Own Site to Commit Affiliate Fraud
Cookie stuffing is a general term used in affiliate marketing and related to affiliate fraud. It is used to describe a wide-range of affiliate behaviors which have varying impact for the merchant. I use a very specific definition meaning when …
Facebook May Prove That Spam King Is Not Invincible
If you’ve been on the Internet at any point in the last decade, you’ve likely seen the work of one Sanford Wallace. Also known as the Spam King or Spamford Wallace, this prolific and notorious spammer finally met his match …
CPA Network Swish Marketing Ordered To Pay $4.8 Million In Fines, Changes Name
After many complaints, followed by a full investigation, the FTC announced last month the final court order involving allegations of deceptive marketing by Swish Marketing and its officers: Mark Benning, Matthew Patterson, and Jason Strober. In large part damned by …
G.I. Jane Challenge To Help Save The Boobies
Over the years Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit Co-Founder and ReveNews Co-Publisher, has been tireless in her fundraising campaigns towards fighting breast cancer and the affiliate marketing industry has responded to her rallying call very generously over the years. Despite a …
Malware Thriving On Facebook Apps
Ever wonder just how big the Facebook juggernaut is? Facebook reports over 500 million users spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook interacting with over 900 million objects (pages, groups and events) and 30 billion pieces of content …
Facebook Launches Three Suits Against Affiliate Marketing Scams
On October 19, 2010, Facebook filed three separate lawsuits all involving use of the Facebook platform to engage in what Facebook considered fraudulent activates which were monetized through CPA networks. Â The lawsuits named Steven Richter, Jason Swan and …
Digital Point Solutions Responds To eBay’s Cookie Stuffing Allegations with Mud Slinging
There are always at least two sides to every story. Yesterday evening I received a ping via Twitter linking to a blog post by Digital Point Solutions, written by Shawn Hogan, responding to these allegations. The post is rather long, rambling, and sensational, to say the least. In the post, Hogan defends himself against the charges of cookie stuffing and makes a few rather serious allegations against eBay.
Affiliates Indicted For Cookie Stuffing
On June 24, 2010, two separate indictments were handed down by a grand jury in California against Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning following an FBI investigation by the Cyber Crimes Department. The indictments charge Hogan and Dunning with wire fraud and criminal forfeiture. Hogan was charged with ten counts of wire fraud and Dunning with five counts of wire fraud.
Zango Co-Founders Receive Over $5 Million For New Start-up
Two of the original founders of 1800Solutions (later called MetricsDirect and then more infamously Zango) are in business together once again with a new start-up company, BigDoorMedia. Keith Smith and Jeff Malek recently received $5 million in investments from Foundry …
The Power Of Social Media Networks In Adware Distribution
Security companies have been talking about social engineering in the distribution of adware, malware and spyware for years now. In the early days of social engineering discussions, the mechanism for tricking end users into installing potentially unwanted software focused on …
