Adiquity Review - Asia's First Mobile Ad SCAM

[goriberpola]

I have been using Adiquity for some of my not so important sites and just when the payout time came closer, yesterday, I saw a message while trying to login "Your Adiquity account has been disabled due to invalid activity."

What is invalid activity? Invalid click? out of question. I always have so much traffic that I never need to do fraud with clicks. I have always tried to keep the CTR very low with all of the ad networks I have used.

Can't believe they have done this with such an experienced wapmaster like me. I have used many ad networks before and nobody did anything like this. Can you believe, they didn't even emailed me about the suspension. I logged in after may be 2 days and found this disaster.

I never understood why people say Indians are fraud in nature, no I can understand it clearly.

[mkjmkj]

don't blem indians for it Please. (india ka naak kata diya.)
Admob also bannd accounts of lots of wapmasters. That dosen't mean you blem their whole country.

Use Adsense, That would be great. ;)

[goriberpola]

don't blem indians for it Please. (india ka naak kata diya.)
Admob also bannd accounts of lots of wapmasters. That dosen't mean you blem their whole country.

Use Adsense, That would be great. ;)

Sorry if I have hurt any Indian here. I lost my temper earlier. I believe there are good Indians like you. thanks for the suggestion.

[GumSlone]

well this is not the first mobile ad scam, there were bad reviews about them from the beginning, and this is not the first indian ad network which block and dont pay and ignore you as a publisher, there are other ad networks like inmobi or mobiadz, anyway i experienced that indian way of doing business is different and might look strange to you as an european or american.

[goriberpola]

well this is not the first mobile ad scam, there were bad reviews about them from the beginning, and this is not the first indian ad network which block and dont pay and ignore you as a publisher, there are other ad networks like inmobi or mobiadz, anyway i experienced that indian way of doing business is different and might look strange to you as an european or american.

I don't see a possible solution for all these. Sometimes I feel like there should be something like Internet Police or Court to file fraud complains. These ad networks are making huge money out of innocent publishers.

[irfiii]

yes agree with gori... And i am gona making a police department

[morse]

well this is not the first mobile ad scam, there were bad reviews about them from the beginning, and this is not the first indian ad network which block and dont pay and ignore you as a publisher, there are other ad networks like inmobi or mobiadz, anyway i experienced that indian way of doing business is different and might look strange to you as an european or american.

To be honest no Indian Ad based company is good. Its my personal experience... by personal i mean I had the misfortune of meeting few of the scamsters in reality. An Indian IT company by itself portrays itself as great, they provide yearly financial data that will blow away the best of financial pundits (dont worry, most of it is fudged) . When you take a stroll of great IT copanies in India like TCS, Infosys and Wipro you will find that 80 percent of their employees are basically idiots. As for these smart-ass ad companies their executives are blood suckers. I want to say no more, being an Indian myself am ashamed of these loosers. The only thing they are getting is a bad name for themselves in future. The professional levels of an Indian and a German are miles apart.

[goriberpola]

I am fortunate that I didn't have to care how much I was earning on Adiquity. Because I have other sources of income. But there are a lot of people who rely a single ad company for their income and when the network suspend him, I think it's a heart breaker for him. It's very unethical and inhuman.

I have always wondered about a fact. I have noticed that I can count the number of web based ad networks with my finger. While there are 100s of ad networks available for mobile apps and site. I think it's because, we, the wapmasters are idiots and never protest when we get suspended for no good reasons and they make good profit out of it.

[modfiles]

I don't see a possible solution for all these. Sometimes I feel like there should be something like Internet Police or Court to file fraud complains. These ad networks are making huge money out of innocent publishers.

this should be a good suggestion but hard to implement that's why ads company are not afraid to just steal money from their publishers.
well the only thing we can do is make a review bout them and spread it all over the internet.

[Spock]

this should be a good suggestion but hard to implement that's why ads company are not afraid to just steal money from their publishers.
well the only thing we can do is make a review bout them and spread it all over the internet.

yeah, I agree with your idea

[Nega]

yeah, I agree with your idea

I don't think their intention is just to "steal". I can hardly believe that company which generates thousands of dollars revenue daily would risk with good reputation just to take few hundreds of dollars from wapmasters. No company with good business understanding could make that, because such behaviour could make harm to their business.


I think most of those networks simply have problems with:
1) Fraud control tools. They make mistakes in defining fraud activities.
2) Big problems with customer support. Once they make mistake in defining fraud activities, it's impossible to contact them - most of networks does not react to any messages.

Another one important thing - you must implement some fraud control tools on YOUR END also. Otherwise any competitor can easily "earn" ban for your site. It's enough just to go to your site and click on ads several times per day from the same device with the same IP. And you will be banned.

When we started to work with our project Wapego.com - we had such situations quite often. We received bans from many ad networks because of "fraud activities" and later we discovered that somebody really made fake multiple clicks on our sites. I just presume, that it were our competitors. Also we had many cases when somebody created sites with child pornography and immediately after creation reported those sites to ad networks with requests to ban Wapego.com as publisher. We discovered such things almost accidentally - we made a good connections with one advertising network, so network did not banned us, but informed about reports and asked to remove such content. And we identified that reports were sent in minutes after creation of such abusing sites.

So guys be wise - protect your sites on your end and you will avoid bans.


P.s. Regarding Adiquity - we use them in several project for very long period, but still that moment everything is ok. We got all payments in time.