Porn And Click Fraud: Perfect Together
from the new-year,-new-scam dept
Online pornographers are often seen pushing the boundaries (sometimes legally, often not) in figuring out new ways to drive revenue. Apparently the latest trick is to combine porn with click fraud. The details aren't entirely clear from the article, but it sounds like some less than scrupulous sites are signing up for pay-per-click affiliate programs, and then modifying the code so that instead of showing an advertisement, it actually shows a pornographic picture -- with the suggestion that clicking through will show you more. Instead, of course, clicking through takes you to some random page of a company that just paid for the click, often making the person go back to see a new "image/ad" to click again.
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But seriously, its a good bet because how many people are going to chalenge somthing legaly when ultimamtly your going to raise questions or at least eyebrows with being the insightfull fellow who notices that the porn links arn't working. Seems like a good stratagy to me (not advocating it...)and would expect it to get worse. I always figured that porn sites were where a lot of credit card #'s got stollen, because who is going to say, "hey! {insert random horse screwing site}.biz started charging with my card after I bought a subscription!!!"
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