Link brokers Blacklist

[terier]

I've encountered several link brokers who remove the links after taking money.
I believe these are specific people with many fake identities.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if so how you handled it.

[universal4]

I have not experienced this much, but I have purchased very few links.

I have sold a few and never remove them before they expire.

Certainly if anyone experiences this on any kind of consistiant basis from certain groups or specific sites, creating a list of sites that have a higher risk value would be a good idea.

Rick
Universal4

[terier]

It's for lifetime deals for guest posts.
I definitely have a list. I keep records of: names, contact emails, Paypal emails and cClasses. Saved me from a couple of deals.
I was just wondering whether it will be legit to publish it here for others.
I'm not sure how publishing the personal emails and names of these scammers will comply with the forum guidelines or if people are actually interested to have this list.

Anyway, for now, just to keep on the safe side I'll keep it off the board. Anyone that's interested can PM me to get the list I have and links of our sources with such lists I've found on the web.

[Gregory.Weiner]

Actually it might be a good idea to create a thread listing all these shady link brokers.
Of course there's an "Unethical Behavior Reports" sub-forum, but I'm not sure it's a correct place to post such threads.
I've found a similar topic on other forum to be quite useful.
The more the community shall contribute to it, the safer the business becomes.

[Nibor]

Actually it might be a good idea to create a thread listing all these shady link brokers.
Of course there's an "Unethical Behavior Reports" sub-forum, but I'm not sure it's a correct place to post such threads.
I've found a similar topic on other forum to be quite useful.
The more the community shall contribute to it, the safer the business becomes.

I agree that such a list would be a good idea to post in the "Unethical Behaviour Reports" sub-forum

[universal4]

What information are you planning on posting.

Email addresses that are not public should not be posted. It isn't ethical to publish someone elses email address for the spambots if those emails were not public to start with.

Rick
Universal4

[terier]

I see what you mean Rick, but the details I wanted to place here are already live on other sites.
This is how I found out that I wasn't the only one scammed by them.
What I can do is simply place here the links of the sites which published these lists already. One is a forum and one is a blog.
Tell me what you think about that.

What information are you planning on posting.

Email addresses that are not public should not be posted. It isn't ethical to publish someone elses email address for the spambots if those emails were not public to start with.

Rick
Universal4

[universal4]

Whether some else posts PRIVATE INFORMATION without permission, does not justify reposting that information.

If someone wrongly posts YOUR private information, is it ok to repost?

The sites involved in removing the links after being paid etc, and the link brokers public information is a different story as that would be of some help without breaking their privacy. (simply linking to sites that repost private info is unacceptable)

Rick
Universal4