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Dr. Augustine "see Fou yourself"
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Creator of FouAnalytics
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these crapps (crappy mobile apps) don't exist but yet are generating fake impressions to sell. so far, none of the other fraud verification vendors have caught them. Clients that use FouAnalytics see these and turn off the selle…lnkd.in/eTgxUmNP
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ponder this: if "MFA websites represent 21% of impressions" and desktop (i.e. non-mobile) represents 23% of impressions (according to firehose data from the last 30 days), what percentage of desktop impressions are AFM ("all fake media")? help me with t…
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"Would you buy $3 per pound shrimp to feed to your family? Of course not, because they and you will get sick from food poisoning. Cheap is not better. There's a reason it's THAT cheap. Why would you buy $3 digital media? There's…lnkd.in/enhVTGMR
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folks, literally ask anyone who works at the ANA what "Made For Advertising" means and HOW they identified sites as MFA for this report. I am being serious; they don't know how MFA sites were identified. they just used another vendor's list of sites…
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another large-scale credit card harvesting operation using Instagram ads for "discounted USPS stamps" as the hook -- "only $16.99 (normally $63)" victims click through to recently registered .shop domains, type in real credit card numbers, home addresses…
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C'mon Meta, you're drunk. What signals is the system looking at to determine that this ad suddenly gets the most spend every day? I know about the breakdown effect, but how am I supposed to leave the top spending ad in an ASC when it's driven one conversion all week and it's…Show more
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A great report on #CTV #fraud by . Please allow me to submit a couple of alternative headlines: Fraud in CTV at just 0.6%; Overall fraud rates declined last year from 1.5% to just 1.1%; The industry is winning the war on fraud!!!
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- ungodly numbers of ad server calls per page - nearly identical templated sites, duplicate content - content identical to reddit threads - license status of images unknown (hotlinked from Getty) @NickManningEBQ Stephen Broderick Bob Liodice 
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🎬 So this scam #2FA app is using custom product pages of Apple Search Ads to trick users. It has different campaigns per search keywords. When searching for "Microsoft Authenticator", it shows screenshots highlighting "Microsoft". and when searching for "Google Authenticator",… Show more
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