Has anyone ever heard of petsmoz.com?

[The Serpent Merchant]

I was able to see who has been viewing threads, and almost all of them are spiders... (bots that help companies like goole determine what ads to put on a webpage)

I have a feeling that this site is an ad click scam, using threads from animal related forums posted by fake users to make them look real while they generate thousands of "clicks" on the adds, which generates real cash for whoever owns the site and is renting the ad space.

[The Serpent Merchant]

now that site wont let me view post it says i exceded the number of post i can view. also serpent merchant i posted pics on the other post about tub cleaning if you dont mind checking em out and telling me what you think of those wipes thanx

I'm not familiar with the active ingredient in those wipes, so I can't say if they are safe or not...

Petsmoz.com doesn't seem to be updating threads, they steal a developed thread, then leave it... or maybe it updates in waves. Since I have been on, nothing new has been posted at all. (except a post that I made)

[JaGv]

I was able to see who has been viewing threads, and almost all of them are spiders... (bots that help companies like goole determine what ads to put on a webpage)

I have a feeling that this site is an ad click scam, using threads from animal related forums posted by fake users to make them look real while they generate thousands of "clicks" on the adds, which generates real cash for whoever owns the site and is renting the ad space.

so theres someone making cash off of people going to that site

[The Serpent Merchant]

so theres someone making cash off of people going to that site

no, it generates cash by itself... (also I can't prove that they are indeed doing this)

the way that it works is a site generates fake users those fake users click on the ads on the site thousands of times. each time an ad gets clicked the person (or company) that created the add pays google or whoever hosts the ads, and then google pays the owner of the site.

For more info on click fraud:

Click fraud[1] is a type of Internet crime that occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script or computer program imitates[2] a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating a charge per click without having actual interest in the target of the ad's link. Click fraud is the subject of some controversy and increasing litigation due to the advertising networks being a key beneficiary of the fraud.
Use of a computer to commit this type of Internet fraud is a felony in many jurisdictions, for example Penal Code 502 in California, USA.[3] There have been arrests relating to click fraud with regard to malicious clicking in order to deplete a competitor's advertising budget

Pay per click advertising, or PPC advertising, is an arrangement in which webmasters (operators of Web sites), acting as publishers, display clickable links from advertisers in exchange for a charge per click. As this industry evolved, a number of advertising networks developed, which acted as middlemen between these two groups (publishers and advertisers). Each time a (believed to be) valid Web user clicks on an ad,the advertiser pays the advertising network,who in turn pays the publisher a share of this money. This revenue-sharing system is seen as an incentive for click fraud.
The largest of the advertising networks, Google's AdWords/AdSense and Yahoo! Search Marketing, act in a dual role, since they are also publishers themselves (on their search engines).[4] According to critics, this complex relationship may create a conflict of interest. This is because these companies lose money to undetected click fraud when paying out to the publisher but make more money when collecting fees from the advertiser. Because of the spread between what they collect and pay out, unfettered click fraud would create short-term profits for these companies.

[The Serpent Merchant]

Also their number of users online drastically changes, it said that there were 12 users online, then I reloaded the page and it said that there was 153...

*EDIT* and is now back down to 12 since I reloaded the page again

[rebelrachel13]

Wow, this is scary. Thanks for alerting us to this. I see my threads there, too.

[The Serpent Merchant]

Just an update, My account on Petsmoz.com was terminated for posting unwanted SPAM.....

[The Serpent Merchant]

further they deleted all of my posts on the site, and have stolen many more threads from BP.net. Including threads using BP.net members usernames.

including:

Daybreaker

John1982

Slim

LGray23

[Don]

I can see them now claiming "fair use".

[devildog_dk]

Yea, but at least it looks like its hosted in the states, so there could be some sort of legal action that can be taken against them if needed... unlike if it was hosted in taiwan or china.