Steven Sauve

This is an open letter to all members of Warrior Forum warning against the use of freelancers and/or guaranteed lead services. These individuals/companies promise to deliver quality leads at low prices, but the reality is that they generate nothing but fraudulent and fake leads.

This affects you in two major ways as an affiliate. First, it is very likely that the leads you delivered will be reversed. This means that you will not be paid for leads for which you've already paid the freelancer/lead service company. Second, you run the risk of having your affiliate account terminated for fraudulent activity, ending up in loss of all your affiliate earnings.

Like most things in life, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. While it may seem like these people are offering you a great deal, the reality is that if they had the ability to generate quality leads, they'd be working with the networks directly and would not need to sell leads through customers like you. These freelancer/lead service companies are doing nothing more than passing on the risk of delivering bad leads to you.

If you are currently working with a freelancer/lead service to get leads through your affiliate accounts, I'd suggest you stop immediately as you will wind up suffering for it at some point in the future.

Here's some name/contact info for 3 people who have recently victimized a large number of MaxBounty affiliates. If you are working with them, I'd suggest you stop immediately and chargeback/stop/dispute any payment you've made them:

IM HANDLE NAME
vertexbd01 Don't have a name
Ayjamsol Jahangir Afzal
Ayjamtech Ali Raza Afsal

Feel free to pass this info on to any of your colleagues who are not members of Warrior Forum or to repost as you see fit.

Thank you.

Steven Sauve
steve at maxbounty.com / AIM = maxbountysteve
http://www.maxbounty.com
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imback

Thank You! I hate when people take the easy way out!


CHAD

MayhemMirix

Finally, perhaps now they'll stop using the easy way out. Heck, if only people would ask their affiliate managers before trying this, perhaps they'd not get banned/lose money so often.

shuvo

This is really a cautious message for all affiliates.However thanks for sharing this useful information.

Affmz

If we take a look at Freelancer.com, there are tons of this kind of service, and a great part of service providers are based in Asian countries where produce most of frauds in this industry

Jeremy_AM

Thanks for posting this Steve. We too have banned several affiliates in the past couple of months for fraudulent leads, then hearing from those publishers that they had hired a freelancer to generate the leads for them.

Some have told me that their leads are clearing just fine on other networks, but make no mistake that all of these freelancers are bogus, and if any of you are using them you should stop immediately. Even if your leads are being paid for now, you can bet that they are fraudulent and before long it'll end up costing you money or accounts.

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MayhemMirix

I do wonder one thing: is it me, or this practice's popularity (outsourcing) has increased incredibly in the recent weeks? I mean, maybe it's just me, but 1-2 years ago, it wasn't so widely spread. Lazy new generations?

speedylikesKJ

thanks steve i have posted an article for my blog few weeks ago How fraudulent publishers are destroying CPA industry | KJ Rocker and what i can see is that still people are doing this stuff check out here ayjamtech | Freelancer.com - Advertising,Bulk Marketing,Customer Support,Data Entry,Dating

Its same person Just seen ur post thought i should post it here that still black sheep's are doing this stuff
For all publishers i have one message STAY AWAY From this stuff

There is no such shortcut

Naveen K

It is quite obvious that they are going to do fraud.
Look at one simple thing. There are plenty of offers out there, why those people don't promote directly and earn more commission's than the pennies which you are going to pay them.

mafai44

i was banned from maxbounty for using the guy vertexbd01, had no idea he was sending fraud leads until i was banned. bastard scammed me hard.

speedylikesKJ

I think Networks should have to talk with O desk and specially freelancer.com about this matter as these are two big markets for such fraudulent lead providers .

speedylikesKJ

Have you tried to contact GAF ? contact them and ask them if they can ban him etc ?

mafai44

Havent tried contacting them but I know he has multiple accounts so it would do much damage to him.