I am a client and an affiliate, I get percentage on the sales.

I am not talking about purchases.

I had a transport logistic/truck transport company in US last year, they sent me like hundred of emails from different profiles, they promised me that they'd post my company in Forbes website like "Top Truck Transport Service Companies in USA", they made the article using AI for 1 minute copy paste, they asked the money before, but never posted it in Forbes.
They took my money 20.000$ and left.
What kind of advertisers are these? I got their IPs, they are from Pakistan & India.

Legit advertisers are needed, not these call centers that take people's savings and make bad reviews for other companies.

I had sites as well in the past, and the advertisers kept asking exaggerated amounts, and they asked 20.000$ before to post in Forbes, they took the money and left without posting anything. What do to in these cases? moral of story: Don't pay your advertisers before or any huge amount 

I used to deal with advertisers as well, and they kept requesting thousands of dollars to make post on non sense websites.
I saw trust pilot as well, clients that buy products seems happy, advertisers are not included in this, maybe they ask too much for nothing 

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