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Hello Bitcoin users and forum members

I write this post to warn you about a big scam wich make many victims these days.

Many of you know IndexExchange.com (ex Casale Media - www.casalemedia.com) - it is one of the top 5 worldwide advertising networks
Casale Media was rebranded to IndexExchange (http://www.marketingmag.ca/tech/casale-media-rebrandsandrew-casale-takes-over-as-ceo-136052)

Two months ago I received an email from "publishers@casalemedia.support" (http://www.casalemedia.support) with an invitation to join as a publisher because I have one website with high traffic (www.BitcoinSpace.net (http://www.BitcoinSpace.net))

I applied, and I was accepted.
They sent me a link (http://www.casalemedia.support/publishers/pb29158.php) to my control panel with my username/password.
I had inserted their tags on my websites and started to generate revenue.

I started in June, and I made 1800$.
They have payment terms NET30 so I continued to keep the ads on July too when I made over 5000$
They "offer" a very high eCPM value: 1.05$

I was expecting the payment starting with August 1, but the payment did not come.
I have contacted them via email, they reply after a few days and asking me if I sent them the invoice with the amount they own me.
I thought that they are legit Casale Media (the use the name, the logo, the address, etc.) and I attached the invoice via email.
After that ... no answer .

I have contacted them multiple times since then and ... no answer.
I started to search, to get more info about Casale Media.
I have found only good reviews (because I was reading about the real Casale Media), and I continued to keep their ads on my websites even I was sceptical ...

Recently I saw that meany people are scammed by these idiots.
I have written an email to IndexExchange and tell them about this fraud.

Sad ... but ... real: there are too many scammers in this world!

Here is one of their tags :


I attached 2 photos (I have more) with the fake website control panel, with revenue.

http://bitcoinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Casale-account.jpg

http://bitcoinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CasaleMedia-SCAM.jpg

the world is full of scam people.. I'm really disappointed for what happened to you.
Thanks for the reporting, I hope it will be usefull to other people to not get scammed.

I am (ElenaFaucets.com) in the same situation!
No answers from this scam company for some days!

How much did you lose with those bastards?

I think it also should be posted in Scam accusations. Your loses are very big and meaningful. We need to spread warning about this scam, for that others would avoid it. I'm really hate to see another scam - it looks like we can't trust in anything on internet.

I got the email, too.
After that, I read reviews about the advertising network and read some scam accusation about them.
I just ignored the email.

The HTML code to insert in the page, links to the page http://contextweb.com/ which is an advertising network. It means, they earned profit by displaying advertising from another advertising network.
You should contact the support of contextweb.com oder PulsePoint.

Maybe you got that email (with the invitation) later when there are already some reports about them...
The original Casale Media (now Index Exchange) is one of the top advertising companies.

I already contacted Context Web/Pulse Point

I was asking myself if there is any legal action wich we can take against this fraud.
I found this (and I have submited a complain for online fraud): https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
Maybe someone with some experience in this field can guide us (we are many victims of this fraud).

I see they changed the hosting now  (http://whois.domaintools.com/casalemedia.support) and they want to continue to scam people ...

900$+5000$+3000$ for 0,5+1+0,5 monthes(
And Adsense banned me too 3 days ago!
So sad(

Please fill an online complain here (I have submited one too):   https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
Also if you know other victims tell them to sumbit a complain

That sounds too good to be true. After a few days with such a profit would be suspicious.
That would be better than adsense.

The scammers have a new domain:  http://www.casalemedia.xyz

DO NOT USE THIS NETWORK!  THEY ARE FAKE!

Interesting .... http://whois.domaintools.com/casalemedia.xyz

I was asking myself why IndexExchange support does not reply to any of my emails?
I think they should reply.
When someone use your personal/business data) to comit a fraud you must take legal actions.

I think IndexExchange the one create those scammers and let them work with their name to scam . Why then they never answers our emails .

anyway good news here the domain for those scammers has been blocked

I dont think IndexExchange run the scam.
IndexExchange fault is that they dont care and don't take any action against this fraud.
They should reply to emails and apologize ...
I have reported this to cyber crime unit, I hope they will investigate and find these bastards.

well, i am sorry that you lost your time and did not get paid, at least you weren't directly stolen from.....these guys will be caught pretty quick, the whole idea as a scam is stupid.  if they never tried to charge you anything then they either made their money by using another ad network and feeding the ads to you guys or directly charging businesses to place ads.  either way, i assume that this was not all done in Bitcoin and there are countless ways to track them and find them.  they have literally put tracks all over the internet with the ads themselves.  whether you get anything from the fact or not, they will be caught

BE CAREFUL GUYS

Those scammer has been back again with new Domain . I am 100% sure of that .

ALmost Same email I received :


Dear Publisher,

You have applied for a CPZmedia Publisher account in the past. We were then not accepting new publishers or your site was not a good match for our ads. We have reviewed your application and glad to inform you that you have been accepted to run CPZmedia Ads.
We always wanted our Publishers to earn more than anywhere that is why we only offering the campaigns that could generate them good money. We have pop-under campaigns at the moment.

After analyzing your traffic we offer you $4.29 per thousand pop-unders rate.

If you are interested please reply to this email with the answers of following queries;
·         How many visits you have per day?
·         Which countries you get most of traffic?
NOTE: Please only provide valid information, False info will result in application rejection.


Thanking you,
 --
CPZmedia.com Team
Publisher Support
www.cpzmedia.com
Email:  support@cpzmedia.com
Skype: cpzmedia


=========================================== end here ===============================

The fact is that I never registered . And the same words has been used and I let then believe I will join then they sent me account information almost same panel same pop code same info

and the funny thing is that they used at my address info Same info that I gave to those scammers while they were using : casalemdia.support domain

https://i.imgur.com/ZARA9qB.jpg


BECAREFUL GUYS PLEASE THOSE SCAMMER ARE BACK AGAIN WITH THIS SITE : cpzmedia.com

Thank you for let us know.
Yes, there is the same message, the same format for "ad code".
Those scammers never give up... I hope this time no one will be fooled by these bastards.