[ANN] Bee-Ads.com - New Advertising Platforms

[bitcoinaliens]

Heads up - I had a graphic adult ad posted on my adspace - and the link was to a phishing site.. you might be under "attack" by people pushing these adverts out - please ban these people and confiscate balances, I have to leave Bee Ads if I keep getting these

[Adverts]

Heads up - I had a graphic adult ad posted on my adspace - and the link was to a phishing site.. you might be under "attack" by people pushing these adverts out - please ban these people and confiscate balances, I have to leave Bee Ads if I keep getting these

Thank you for your input bitcoinaliens,

at the moment the option to avoid these ads appearing on your website(s) is to delete them on "view&bid" page. We are now preparing "block&report the ad" option so any harmful advertising can be permanently block from appearing and will be reported to admin to deal with it and its provider.
Other way would be manual validation of all new ads but it would mean delay for advertisers to have their ads up and running - in case faulty ads will appear continuously we will probably go this way.
Sorry for inconvenience - we are taking steps to avoid this.

[abora]

I have been waiting for this, what is the payment schedule?

Hi, what do you mean? You can withdraw anytime once your balance reaches 0.001 BTC. It is instant.

I really like anything that involves instant withdrawer, instant payment etc, no unnecessary delay.

[bitcoinaliens]

at the moment the option to avoid these ads appearing on your website(s) is to delete them on "view&bid" page. We are now preparing "block&report the ad" option so any harmful advertising can be permanently block from appearing and will be reported to admin to deal with it and its provider.
Other way would be manual validation of all new ads but it would mean delay for advertisers to have their ads up and running - in case faulty ads will appear continuously we will probably go this way.
Sorry for inconvenience - we are taking steps to avoid this.

Having to wait until I get the porn or phishing ad on my adspace and hope I do notice it is not a solution!

I've just had to delete a phishing site: http://2bitco.in/login.html - I can't have any of my traffic going to something like this. You really need to be able to ban domains and whole accounts - and also be serious with it and confiscate bitcoin balances.

[marzalpac]

at the moment the option to avoid these ads appearing on your website(s) is to delete them on "view&bid" page. We are now preparing "block&report the ad" option so any harmful advertising can be permanently block from appearing and will be reported to admin to deal with it and its provider.
Other way would be manual validation of all new ads but it would mean delay for advertisers to have their ads up and running - in case faulty ads will appear continuously we will probably go this way.
Sorry for inconvenience - we are taking steps to avoid this.

Having to wait until I get the porn or phishing ad on my adspace and hope I do notice it is not a solution!

I've just had to delete a phishing site: http://2bitco.in/login.html - I can't have any of my traffic going to something like this. You really need to be able to ban domains and whole accounts - and also be serious with it and confiscate bitcoin balances.

im having these ads coming form bee-ads, adbitco and anonymous too.. seems like someone is on phishing hunt.. i deleted few of them but they keep coming (from all advertising websites).. i think its easy for advertiser to change IP and log in as a new user and continue even when banned (and lodge small amounts continuously to avoid big loss). carlos from adbitco, beeads and anon dont stand a chance to check all new ads... seems its up to people to do not be stupid enough to put their credentials into phishing sites.. would like that "block and report" option though asap..

[bitcoinaliens]

So I just checked my Bee Ads account and received this message:

Error This account has been suspended due to infringement of our TOS.

No email explanation, no idea why I've been banned - I honestly cant imagine I have broken and TOS and if I have you can post them here for all to see - I have nothing to hide..

However I wonder if I was banned simply because I had a 0.1btc balance in my account - any chance youre going to send this back to me?

[Adverts]

So I just checked my Bee Ads account and received this message:

Error This account has been suspended due to infringement of our TOS.

No email explanation, no idea why I've been banned - I honestly cant imagine I have broken and TOS and if I have you can post them here for all to see - I have nothing to hide..

However I wonder if I was banned simply because I had a 0.1btc balance in my account - any chance youre going to send this back to me?

Hi,

the reason for your account being banned is following:

You have published advertising for website bitsecuretransfer.com under your account. That ad led to phishing site which is acquiring Blockchain wallet IDs via another website called blockchcain.info. This website is a complete imitation of blockchain.info and it was set up for getting login credentials for Blockchain users only.

[melisande]

So I just checked my Bee Ads account and received this message:

Error This account has been suspended due to infringement of our TOS.

No email explanation, no idea why I've been banned - I honestly cant imagine I have broken and TOS and if I have you can post them here for all to see - I have nothing to hide..

However I wonder if I was banned simply because I had a 0.1btc balance in my account - any chance youre going to send this back to me?

Hi,

the reason for your account being banned is following:

You have published advertising for website bitsecuretransfer.com under your account. That ad led to phishing site which is acquiring Blockchain wallet IDs via another website called blockchcain.info. This website is a complete imitation of blockchain.info and it was set up for getting login credentials for Blockchain users only.

This site have credibility, i will open an account with them as soon as i got paid from my present campaign.

[bitcoinaliens]

So I just checked my Bee Ads account and received this message:

Error This account has been suspended due to infringement of our TOS.

No email explanation, no idea why I've been banned - I honestly cant imagine I have broken and TOS and if I have you can post them here for all to see - I have nothing to hide..

However I wonder if I was banned simply because I had a 0.1btc balance in my account - any chance youre going to send this back to me?

Hi,

the reason for your account being banned is following:

You have published advertising for website bitsecuretransfer.com under your account. That ad led to phishing site which is acquiring Blockchain wallet IDs via another website called blockchcain.info. This website is a complete imitation of blockchain.info and it was set up for getting login credentials for Blockchain users only.

HUH!? Yes but this is something I have NO CONTROL OVER! Unless I check my adverts every few hours then it is YOUR OPEN SYSTEM which allows this advertiser to bid on EVERYONES ads - this is absolutely ridiculous that you ban ME for this -I DO NOT WANT THIS SITE ADVERTISIN ON MY WEBSITE any more than you do!

This is absolutely criminal - you have closed my account for something I have NO CONTROL over, AND STOLEN 0.1btc from me.

[minifrij]

Why are almost all Bitcoin ad networks fucking up recently. It's shit.

[Adverts]

Hi,

sorry for delay in response.

We had to deal with scammy adverts which were published through our ad network. Maybe you notice them as well, they were coming from all other bitcoin related ad networks too. Problem was that this "advertiser" used 3 of our clients accounts (he somehow obtained their credentials) which led to their ban (as we thought they are causing these ads showing up).
 
We want to apologize to bitcoinalien, he was among those affected. We simply followed our TOS and (without knowledge that someone else uses his account) we banned him. I was in contact with him via pm and I hope it is sorted.

Here you can see the ads:
first one led to this website:

http://s30.postimg.org/e5m00t0sh/Screenshot_from_2014_11_29_22_16_51.png


If anyone filled up the field requiring their bitcoin wallet ID they were transferred to dummy blockchain.info website which was set up to steal login credentials.


http://s10.postimg.org/fv9f2t455/blckcchain.png


Now most of the people would notice that is a fake site but plenty simply did not and they gave away their details to scammer.

We wanted to find
a) reason for this mess happening,
b) identify the source and person behind it,
c) make everything possible it wont happen again.
We hired 3rd party to run diagnosis and to specify eventual vulnerabilities (if any exist) and the results came only yesterday. We were happy that the worst scenarios (SQL injection, XXS attack) were not on place, all was done via social engineering probably (from over 500 users accounts only 4 were affected).

We know that plenty of publishers don't care what kind of ads are being posted on their website as far as they get some profit of it. This won't happen with us, there will be ZERO tolerance towards any suspicious activity even this will cost us revenue. Obviously we can not decide about every ad - if miners offer is real or is it a scam, its up to users to find out, but we will try to block any ad coming with "scam" written over it.

To avoid this happening we took these actions:


1) There is secure https access to bee-ads.com now implemented.
2) Auto "reset password" function added (linked to users email accounts so its impossible to re-gain access to bee-ads unless you are owner of the email). If you feel there is any suspicious activity going on with your account just change your password.
3) All new advertisements have to be manually validated before becoming functional. We are aware it could be inconvenient for some advertisers but it is simply necessary measure we had to take now. No more malicious ads leading to scam websites will be possible to put via bee-ads.com.  

I hope you will understand our position. We value honest users and we want to protect them.


 

[minifrij]

I'm glad that everything is sorted. They hacked into another website I used to display ads, it may just be brute force with usernames/emails that are expected.
I now have a lot more confidence in Bee-Ads, thank you! Any update on BitSense-Ads.com? That was meant to open for business ages ago.

[bitcoinaliens]

So I had the public dispute with Bee Ads which I think prompted this investigation really and after speaking privately via PM I can confirm everything posted here. Mainly that

• it was a misunderstanding.
• My account funds were not "stolen" by Bee Ads, and have been returned and I have been reinstated with a new account.
• It was believed that I was posting these phising/malicious adverts/links - and I was not - it looks like my account was compromised and used.

Furthermore, I am actually most impressed with the preventative measures:

1) There is secure https access to bee-ads.com now implemented.
2) Auto "reset password" function added (linked to users email accounts so its impossible to re-gain access to bee-ads unless you are owner of the email). If you feel there is any suspicious activity going on with your account just change your password.
3) All new advertisements have to be manually validated before becoming functional. We are aware it could be inconvenient for some advertisers but it is simply necessary measure we had to take now. No more malicious ads leading to scam websites will be possible to put via bee-ads.com.  

Myself, I dont mind that everything has to be manually approved if it means that I'm never going to have 1. any porn/adult ads on my site 2. any malicious phishing scams.

Thanks for the explanation and the attention to detail!

[nocroom]

please ad 75x75 and 150x150

thinking about it for Bitcoin Social Network http://sobit.us

[marzalpac]

I'm glad that everything is sorted. They hacked into another website I used to display ads, it may just be brute force with usernames/emails that are expected.
I now have a lot more confidence in Bee-Ads, thank you! Any update on BitSense-Ads.com? That was meant to open for business ages ago.

just a suggestion: if they used brute force attack mayb some kind of captcha (while loggin in) could help to prevent it?

anyway glad this is sorted, for my faucets bee-ads is working pretty well, good luck

[Adverts]

please ad 75x75 and 150x150

thinking about it for Bitcoin Social Network http://sobit.us

Hi nocroom,

we are offering:
250x250 - square
125x125 - button square

There is no need to use other formats as advertisers aren't really asking for them (means you won't have them bought by them). Try to adjust your website to IAB standard. Hope this helped.

[marzalpac]

u should check some of the websites.. not genuine traffic/clicks

[dhavin]

I have about 500k unique visitors hitting my website every 30 days; when will bitsense-ads.com open up for registration?

Additionally: Unknown error occured (while attempting to withdraw funds from bee-ads.com). Payment problems?

[Adverts]

I have about 500k unique visitors hitting my website every 30 days; when will bitsense-ads.com open up for registration?

Additionally: Unknown error occured (while attempting to withdraw funds from bee-ads.com). Payment problems?

Hi dhavin,

sorry for late response, we are busy with bitsense-ads.com set-up nowadays. We were forced to completely re-do our API as some of ad-exchanges we are going to use changed theirs. It seems bitsense should be up and running (open for new registrations) before end of this year.

Did you success with withdrawal from bee-ads.com? Because there was plenty of withdrawals made in last few days and we are not aware of any problems. If you were not able to withdraw please send me pm with your details so we can check it for you.

[Adverts]

u should check some of the websites.. not genuine traffic/clicks

Sorted