What a crazy experience....
Had been using adbrite on a site for a little while, put their ads up and then decided to see how things went.
To my amazment , I had an inbox filled with hundreds of emails, complaints from surfers and members about their browsers going to hollywood poker site and when they would press the back button to go back to my site, they would be forced back to this hollywood poker site.
I had one of my guys who handles sponsors on that site contact them about this and they claim to not know why it has been doing that and that it is even doing it or did it.
Anyhow, the ads were removed promptly and now all is back to normal.
Yesterday I get a call from one of my cc companies... They tell me that they are canceling my card because of a company that has performed 56 attempts to take all different amounts off the card, many small dollar amounts and several over 100.00 (even though I have canceled all advertizing that I used to buy from adbrite, they continue to charge the card, 56 times in the span of about a week or 2, I have not even bought ads from adbrite over the past 2 months now, why all of a sudden these charges.
All I know is I have informed the authorities of this fraud onto my cc and I leave it in their hands.
As for the browser hijacking, I thought that kind of thing was very risky for a reputable company to engage in, what are your opinions on it, perhaps someone else had a negative experience with this company?
Had been using adbrite on a site for a little while, put their ads up and then decided to see how things went.
To my amazment , I had an inbox filled with hundreds of emails, complaints from surfers and members about their browsers going to hollywood poker site and when they would press the back button to go back to my site, they would be forced back to this hollywood poker site.
I had one of my guys who handles sponsors on that site contact them about this and they claim to not know why it has been doing that and that it is even doing it or did it.
Anyhow, the ads were removed promptly and now all is back to normal.
Yesterday I get a call from one of my cc companies... They tell me that they are canceling my card because of a company that has performed 56 attempts to take all different amounts off the card, many small dollar amounts and several over 100.00 (even though I have canceled all advertizing that I used to buy from adbrite, they continue to charge the card, 56 times in the span of about a week or 2, I have not even bought ads from adbrite over the past 2 months now, why all of a sudden these charges.
All I know is I have informed the authorities of this fraud onto my cc and I leave it in their hands.
As for the browser hijacking, I thought that kind of thing was very risky for a reputable company to engage in, what are your opinions on it, perhaps someone else had a negative experience with this company?
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