Lospollos marked me as fraud?

Mushyx1 said:

I've done very minor media buying for Lospollos. Spent $50 on a campaign that had very little returns; to be specific it was a pop under campaign on Clickadilla. Today I log in because I wanted to try running a different campaign with them and I can't log in, keeps telling me that my credentials are wrong. I message support and they respond my account has been locked due to fraud. The only campaign I ran was with Clickadilla so... where is the fraud? I asked if they could go into more detail with why my account was marked as fraud and I'm still waiting on a response back, even though it was a couple hours ago I reached out.

Did they just chum me for $3.00 I made on a campaign?

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Mushyx1 said:

It was going to their lander.... it's using there smartlinks and that's how they promote you to use it. Unless the lander needs a lander?

Yes, I'm still learning and that's part of the point of this post is to find out why, so I don't make that mistake in the future. I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes. I'm just trying to make some money and enjoy learning about it along the way.

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Ignatius_Reilly said:

I hate to say it, but from what you're describing, it seems like this was your mistake. You need to use a landing page and a tracker, especially with a traffic source like POP, which is full of bots and junk. Additionally, you need to understand that the advertiser won’t be happy if you send large amounts of unfiltered traffic to their landings.

People think bots only click on links, but that’s not true. There are bots that make fake registrations so that you believe that a site or ID is working, and you add it to your whitelist. That’s why you need a tracker, to filter out all that garbage. Networks, of course, detect this easily, and I assume that’s why they flagged you as fraudulent.

You can try talking to your account manager and explain the situation, letting them know that you're just starting out and were unaware of this detail. You can also attach screenshots of your campaign in Clickadilla, so they can see it was a mistake and not something intentional.

Lastly, I recommend getting some landing pages as soon as possible, translating them into the languages of the geos you'll be working with, and buying a couple of domains—one to use as a custom domain for your landings and another for doing double meta refresh. Finally, I suggest using Bemob as your first tracker; I think the free version should be sufficient for what you're doing right now.

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