Like it or not, the Twenty-first century is the age of advertisement. It is only through advertising that a person gets a job and a company increases its annual profit. The same principle applies for online, e-commerce sites. In an effort to increase visitors of a particular site, most e-commerce websites often tie up with ad agencies or so-called ‘audience development networks’, the latter a modern incarnation of previously derided traffic exchange networks.
MGID.COM has positioned itself as a leading online advertising company. However, a recent Google search for online fraudsters turned up a few names. MarketGid, MGID.net, MGID.COM, MGID Ltd, MGID Europe; these are all different trading names of one company that is accused of multiple infractions and ‘blackhat’ business practices, and indulging in a host of illegal activities, from copyright infringement to child pornography. The site claims to advertise products on behalf of their clients, improving on the audience base of the client and increasing traffic and visitors of the client site. However the truth is that the intricate web links of this site are shrewdly crafted for MGID.COM’s sole benefit. The site deploys hackers from Russia and Ukraine – where the company is operated and where the company owners have been reportedly linked to the organized criminal underworld of those regions. The following image substantiates how MGID is harmful for the unsuspecting clients who team up with them. Advertising and promoting various methods of computer hacking is just one area that MGID corrupts and perverts web traffic and content, as well as polluting the WWW with harmful and dangerous hacking softwares.
Its fair to say that publishing online articles promoting and instructing individuals to hack other peoples’ computers is irresponsible at best and in breach of advertising standards practices, not to mention morally reprehensible at worst. In fact, it is my opinion that this types of adverts contradict MGID’s own TOS, which stiluate the following:
“We reject and do not work with websites which contain content that is recognized as illegal, harmful, threatening, immoral, slanderous, infringing upon someone’s copyright, popularizing violence and any sort of discrimination or, any content which contains nudity or pornography”.
The keyword here is ‘recognized’. MGID are saying that unless the material or online content they publish or advertise is proven by a suitable and relevant authority to be ‘immoral’, or ‘harmful’, they are free and innocent to encourage or incite people to commit criminal offences – which in itself is a criminal act.
Amid all the publicity fuss about MGID.COM, the site continues to infringe international cyber laws. The site exploits the confidential credentials of innocent web users and employs invasive scam techniques to slur their image. Driven by the single-minded quest for high rank in search engines, MGID.COM treads the thorny path of online scams and online fraud.
Here is another advert from MGID. Judge for yourself the relationship between their idea of morality and what causes harm, and your own:
MGID has many names and is a carefully laid out trap to lure visitors to face invasive spam and a deluge of pop-up ads with no prospect of actually generating traffic to any other website other than itself and its affiliates. Evidently any type of association with MGID.COM is detrimental for the client as well as potential customers of other e-commerce sites.
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