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Holy Scam Batman! The Ghost Sees Through Zango

Sep 12, 2008
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Chris Boyd (aka Paperghost) reported last week on his Spyware Guide blog about a dodgy offer for a “Free Online Batman Game” that in reality installed Zango and a crappy demo version of an ancient game that you could have downloaded for free somewhere else. It should not take more than a few brain cells to figure out that DC Comics is not coming to you with an online Batman game that nobody knows about and has not been mentioned in the press.

This shows you need to be wary still. Who knows how much either side knew, but when you have such an obvious misrepresentation you really have to wonder. Did people just look the other way for a buck?

 

About Brad Waller

Some say Brad created the first affiliate program. We’ll never know for sure, but we do know that Brad has been running businesses online since 1994 and affiliate programs since 1996. When he is not running the affiliate program for EPage Classifieds, helping publishers monetize their sites with AdJungle, or working on iPhone applications, Brad is also busy starting up the Performance Marketing Alliance, a trade association created to represent and build the entire performance based industry.

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  • http://www.rhinofish.com Pat Grady

    I gotta imagine the owners of the batman trademarks would be interested in seeing documentation of this, assuming an agreement between them and Zango/MetricsDirect doesn’t exist already.

    I continue to believe these companies will find their undoing outside of adware legislation, things like copyright infringement, tax evasion, nefarious installs, pii violations, poison pills that break anti-competitive legal bars (one’s aimed at their competitors) and so on. They have learned how to avoid the issues that are at the heart of the matter, namely interference with online commercial activity (that would never be tolerated in the offline realm).