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Richard Kahn: February 10, 2022
While a lot of ad fraud is committed using bot programs that fill out forms and generate fake leads, those aren’t the only tools that fraudsters use. To make their click fraud and other ad fraud schemes even harder to identify, fraudsters may also...
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Richard Kahn: February 3, 2022
Here’s a scenario that we see all too often: A company launches a brand-new ad campaign to promote their products and services. To spread their reach as far as possible, the company partners with a lot of different ad platforms, social media...
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Richard Kahn: January 27, 2022
If you’re working in the digital marketing space or hired someone else to help with your marketing, you probably use some kind of lead generation form as a part of your online campaigns.
These forms are a great tool for collecting data about...
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Richard Kahn: January 20, 2022
The financial risks posed by TCPA violations are too significant for any company to ignore. With millions of dollars on the line in the form of fines and even class action lawsuits, it’s important to know what your risk factors are and how to avoid...
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Richard Kahn: January 13, 2022
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) was a landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that was an “effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing calls” enacted by Congress.
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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...
