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Fraud: An Affiliate Epidemic

Date: April 6, 2001

Author: Shawn Collins

QUOTE: If you are running a pay-per-click or pay-per-lead affiliate program, there are people out there trying to rip you off.

ABSTRACT: Unscrupulous people, ranging from unsophisticated kids to highly professional criminal rings, are fraudulently "beating the system" by automating the process of clicking on links to generate income to themselves from Internet affiliate programs tied to income per click/site visit rates.

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Key Organizations:

• INT Media Group

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Information
    • Truth / Honesty / Lying / Cheating

• Computers & Information Technology
  • Computer Security (general)
    • Hacking/ Network Access
  • Internet General (see also Fraud, Free Speech, etc.)
    • Internet: Linking

• Law & Justice
  • Criminal Law
    • Theft / Stolen Property
      • Frauds / Scams: General
        • Fraud: Business

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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