and now on to the affiliate networks, I have personally been a publisher for CPALead.com for a few years now, I am doing nothing illegal, i stick to legit stuff and i let my traffic know what they’re doing when they finish a survey, and the majority of their publishers are legit and do no blackhat/scam stuff, but what you found there is unfortunally one of the few that does.

Anyways, what I’m trying to say here is, don’t blame the cpa network for something that one of the thousands of publishers are doing, i personally know one of the cpalead managers, they have a office set up in las vegas, and they are doing whatever they can to keep those scammers off their site, they recently did a massive cleanup and banned thousands of users, and they’re tightening up their approval system and all that all the time.

Enough of my ramblings, have a nice day or night or whatever, I’m off to work.

//Richard

I will await a reply.

I've always been about following the money. The money is the "why" behind it happening. I think it's also the key in managing the problem.

What I'd hope to see is more long-term thinking where we are "managing" the problem internally before it's managed for us externally.

One can hope!

I went through some similar digging for my ‘scams’ article here, but I enjoyed how you kept digging deeper and deeper tracking IP locations AND the page take downs.

I look forward to your follow up, especially any recommendations you have for managing/exposing this problem further.

- Duane