For the past several months, I’ve been helping Gail manage her email. The majority of the time I’ve spent doing so has simply been deleting spam messages. There are a ton of them, and that’s not counting the ones she deletes herself. As comedian and TED speaker James Veitch observes, “The internet gave us access to everything. But it also gave everything access to us.” I have to say, I wish I could deal with email scammers in the same tongue-in-cheek way that Veitch did. Unfortunately, … [Read more...]
72% of Marketers Are Victims of Fraud
There's no other way to say it: much of the internet marketing industry is fraudulent. If there are not shady folks pushing scams, then there are always networks and "agencies" with little or no ethics. I was curious how prevalent marketing fraud is, so I did a survey of the 60,000 readers of my publication, PACEDm.com. The results surprised even me. Marketing Fraud is a lot more rampant than anyone thought. In the last decade, there have been discussions at conferences, meetings … [Read more...]
Twitter May Be Generating Spam Account Income
Have you noticed that brand new Twitter spammer accounts don't show any tweets? I've been noticing that in spam accounts for a while now because that seems curious to me. Then I noticed that #dominicanproblems was trending - and not just in Dallas Ft. Worth - for the entire United States and large numbers of individual U.S. cities too. There were an unusually large number of spam tweets promoting Visa. … [Read more...]
