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Richard Kahn: January 6, 2022
Online ad campaigns are a great (and cost-effective) way to generate leads and build your business. However, there are always charlatans who will be out to scam you out of your money while providing nothing of value in return. So, lead generation...
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Richard Kahn: December 30, 2021
Have you heard of Aleksandr Zhukov, the self-proclaimed Russian King of Fraud? Unless you’ve been closely following ad fraud news, you may not know who the creator of the methbot ad fraud scheme is or why he’s noteworthy.
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Richard Kahn: December 23, 2021
2021 was a busy year for ad fraud—and there’s every indication that 2022 will be just as busy (if not more so)! Every day, fraudsters concoct new schemes (or modify old ones) to try and steal ad revenue from companies just like yours.
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Richard Kahn: November 24, 2021
What is digital ad fraud? Digital ad fraud, or the practice of viewing, clicking, converting, or generating false interactions with any web asset for the sole purpose of earning money (either directly or indirectly), has long been a major problem...
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Richard Kahn: November 17, 2021
E-commerce fraud is quite common. According to credit card processor Shift Processing, credit card fraud was up 18.4 percent in 2018, and that number has continued to climb.
There are different types of e-commerce fraud, and in order for scammers...
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Richard Kahn: November 3, 2021
If you ask a marketer what they consider to be the most important metrics to track, many of them will say “conversion rate.”
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Richard Kahn: October 13, 2021
There are many techniques that fraudsters will employ to aid in their ad fraud schemes. When fraudsters want to try to hide their illicit activities and make themselves harder to identify, one of the first tactics they’ll resort to is spoofing.
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Richard Kahn: September 29, 2021
Botnets have long been a problem for companies of all sizes to deal with—and for a variety of reasons. Odds are you’ve read a headline or two about how some massive botnet carried out a big cyberattack against some company or industry and stole a...
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Richard Kahn: September 22, 2021
Internet influencers are online “celebrities” who have massive followings and can help start trends online by endorsing a product. Alternatively, they can drive their audience away from products by insulting them on social media. For businesses,...
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Richard Kahn: September 8, 2021
It’s a story the Anura team has heard time and time again: A company launches a massive affiliate marketing campaign and, at first, everything’s working well. They generate a few leads from the campaign, it looks like the return on investment is...