The Scarlet Pimp
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- Apr 2, 2008
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now this is how you commit fraud for profit! 
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AOL is desperate for income, and because of that, I've seen more and more examples of their ads being shown fraudulently on banner farms and other scams.
Today I caught their advertising showing on pop-ups all over the internet for a "fake" site whoes entire purpose is to defraud advertisers.
In this case, the company "Playgolf365.com" is loading popunders and their site in 1×1 pixels on other banners. The site is made to look like it has actual content, but the entire purpose is to reload the ads over and over again and defraud the network.
Advertising.com claims to have technology to detect this, but they clearly are not, and worse the tags show that they know EXACTLY what the site is.
This is bad news for AOL, that their system is NOT working to detect fraud.
We've included the HAR file of the loads, so one can see how many times just in a minute they load. You can analyze it in any HAR analyzer including Google's: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/har_analyzer/
DOWNLOAD THE HAR FILE HERE,
http://www.filedropper.com/playgolf365com
http://veritad.com/2016/10/13/aol-advertising-com-caught-partnering-with-fraudulent-banner-farm/
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AOL is desperate for income, and because of that, I've seen more and more examples of their ads being shown fraudulently on banner farms and other scams.
Today I caught their advertising showing on pop-ups all over the internet for a "fake" site whoes entire purpose is to defraud advertisers.
In this case, the company "Playgolf365.com" is loading popunders and their site in 1×1 pixels on other banners. The site is made to look like it has actual content, but the entire purpose is to reload the ads over and over again and defraud the network.
Advertising.com claims to have technology to detect this, but they clearly are not, and worse the tags show that they know EXACTLY what the site is.
This is bad news for AOL, that their system is NOT working to detect fraud.
We've included the HAR file of the loads, so one can see how many times just in a minute they load. You can analyze it in any HAR analyzer including Google's: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/har_analyzer/
DOWNLOAD THE HAR FILE HERE,
http://www.filedropper.com/playgolf365com
http://veritad.com/2016/10/13/aol-advertising-com-caught-partnering-with-fraudulent-banner-farm/