Hello SURBL Team,
Please review linkshield(dot)com. It's a URL cloaking service but no abuse policy, etc. It may have legit uses but their service may actually benefits spammers.
Just wanted to get everyone's opinion :-)
-RD
On Monday, February 21, 2005, 2:47:16 AM, RD RD wrote:
Hello SURBL Team,
Please review linkshield(dot)com. It's a URL cloaking service but no abuse policy, etc. It may have legit uses but their service may actually benefits spammers.
Just wanted to get everyone's opinion :-)
I'm not familiar with it. Do you have some example uses in spam or ham?
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
On Monday, February 21, 2005, 3:08:27 AM, RD RD wrote:
I'm not familiar with it. Do you have some example uses in spam or ham?
Just sent you a spample offlist.
OK Got it, and also searched old messages. It looks like Alex Broens mentioned this domain in January also. Looks like a redirector mostly used for MLM. Here are some quotes from their site:
Watch your commissions skyrocket by protecting your affiliate links with the click of a mouse!
Recommended by Internet Business Gurus Mark Joyner and Neil Shearing!"Awesome little service that's like added insurance people won't poach your affiliate sales." Mark Joyner, #1 Best-Selling Author, "MindControlMarketing.com"
"As an Affiliate Program Owner with over 9,000 affiliates, I strongly urge all my affiliates to protect their links. Linkshield is the only program I know of which allows affiliates to protect their links without needing their own website. Great job, Sam! Neil Shearing, Ph.D. http://www.scamfreezone. com/"
The only secure service offering TWO LEVELS of PROTECTION: Completely web-based, no software or website necessary
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URL security is the make-or-break hinge of your affiliate marketing promotions. Would you go out to dinner without locking the front door of your house? Don't leave your affiliate advertising vulnerable to hackers!
James Martell, author of "James Martell's Affiliate Marketers Handbook" and active member of LinkShield told us:
I am no longer losing commission to some unscrupulous webmasters. Mycommission monitoring service proves it! I highly recommend LinkShield to all serious affiliate marketers. James Martell, Author of "James Martell's Affiliate Marketers Handbook" - www.jamesmartell.com
That said, I'd be disinclined to list unless it appeared mostly in spams. (I know some people consider most MLM to be spam, and I do also, but somewhat contrary to my own expectation, some MLMers actually seem to operate ethically at least when it comes to spam.)
linkshield .com is a 2002 registration with no RBL or SBL but 21 NANAS, apparently affiliate abuse. Newest in NANAS is about a month ago.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
Jeff Chan wrote:
On Monday, February 21, 2005, 3:08:27 AM, RD RD wrote:
I'm not familiar with it. Do you have some example uses in spam or ham?
Just sent you a spample offlist.
OK Got it, and also searched old messages. It looks like Alex Broens mentioned this domain in January also. Looks like a redirector mostly used for MLM. Here are some quotes from their site:
That said, I'd be disinclined to list unless it appeared mostly in spams. (I know some people consider most MLM to be spam, and I do also, but somewhat contrary to my own expectation, some MLMers actually seem to operate ethically at least when it comes to spam.)
linkshield .com is a 2002 registration with no RBL or SBL but 21 NANAS, apparently affiliate abuse. Newest in NANAS is about a month ago.
Following the SURBL policy I only listed in my local zone. Got some of those MLM "users" on my systems - they think they'll make money eventually. One of them told me on the phone a MLM company owed him $21K and is waiting for the check - Advised to get a new hobby - the guy is about 70 years old.
Maybe RD wants to runs a local URI rule and we watch them a bit.
uri LUV_MLM /linkshield.com/i describe LUV_MLM Watching score LUV_MLM 5.0
Alex
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