Ad fraud is out of control -- billions lost by media industry, says a new report

ronjor · May 25, 2018

By Tom Foremski for Tom Foremski: IMHO | May 25, 2018
Advertising fraud is hitting new highs -- enabling multi-billion dollar crimes, claims a report from a leading ad researcher.

Minimalist · May 11, 2019

How scammers made ad fraud a billion-dollar criminal industry

Whoever came up with “thieves rob banks because that’s where all the money is” needs to add “digital advertising” to the updated version of the adage.

Criminals simply don’t need to go through all the trouble of stealing money from well-fortified financial institutions when they can just trick advertisers into directly lining their pockets. With internet ad revenue totaling more than $100 billion in 2018, scammers are following that line of money: ad fraud is set to cost the industry as much as $44 billion annually by 2022.
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https://www.cyberscoop.com/how-scammers-made-ad-fraud-a-billion-dollar-criminal-industry/

Rasheed187 · May 11, 2019

Minimalist said: ↑

How scammers made ad fraud a billion-dollar criminal industry

https://www.cyberscoop.com/how-scammers-made-ad-fraud-a-billion-dollar-criminal-industry/
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Haven't read the article, but I will continue to block ads. I white-listed a site because it used an ad-blocking detector, and guess what, I got to see annoying animated ads. Google and Mozilla seem to think that these ads are acceptable. What a bunch of *******.

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