Networks verifying by phone should definitely not be a reason to not try and promote with them. I find that the networks that are on the up and up are the ones that do phone calls and try to verify you so that they may do the best business they can with affiliates and advertisers alike. Keep this in mind guys, it's an important piece of information that will keep you from getting screwed over by garbage fraudulent networks.
Totally agree, I've never been declined from a network after a phone call, I've been declined, then made the phonecall, then they changed my account to active.
You can get paid weekly on most networks, just speak to your AM, you do need to be earning at least $1,000/per week and most of the time, they want you to earn $1,000 per week for a month stright before they change you over to weekly payments.
$1,000 per week is only around $125/per day, which can look a bit fishy if you are running blackhat methods, if your looking at weekly payments, then you should start to build a strong releationship with your AM and explain EXACTLY what your doing and if they are OKAY with it, make sure you say the traffic you send does convert on the back end and if it doesn't, you'll stop running that offer.
You'll be amazed at what CPA networks allow you to do to promote offers, as long as it converts on the back end, you get paid, the company gets paid and the advertiser doesn't care because it's converting for them as well, if anything the CPA network encourages people to run black hat campigns that convert, because they are making more money!
Most CPA networks get bitchty when you traffic isn't converting, because they get the advertiser bitching at them over it, also when your supplying fraud leads, because it's not converting once again, so they don't get paid either.