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Two Companies That Said No To Social Media Scams

Source: TechCrunch

Nov 01, 2009

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Feedback is rolling in on our Scamville post last night. Even more people are coming forward to talk about their experiences getting ripped off by Offerpal and SuperRewards, or how they were pitched by these companies to add offers to their apps.

We’ve got a lot more to say about this before we’re done. And we’re hoping that Facebook and MySpace make the right decisions for users and begin to enforce their own rules on subscription and other scams. Even if it means a huge drop in advertising revenue from the apps that rely on scams to make money.

But in this post we’re going to let two other people make their points. In a comment to the post yesterday NotOrNot founder James Hong talks about how his company tried, and quickly removed, scammy offers from their site. He says “In a nutshell, the offers that monetize the best are the ones that scam/trick users.”

And PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind talks about being pitched by companies like Offerpal and SuperRewards. He also follows up with a post on his own blog.

James Hong:

We ran offers like this back in 2005 for