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That's right. You heard me. I am pretty upset at Market Leverage right now. And I am hoping that this will get their attention enough to stop ignoring me. 
(Because I was ignored the first time)...
The reason being is they seem to be housing and protecting hackers...
What do I mean? Well let me tell you my story...
A couple weeks ago my good friend (who will remain nameless) had realized that his site got hacked. He was so ticked off because he sends so much volume (we're talking $20,000+ a day in commissions) through his site that the few hours that he lost during this time cost him THOUSANDS of dollars.
Some annoying hacker had hacked into his site, installed a backdoor, and redirected his links to go to some market leverage offers.
Thankfully the Market leverage affiliate links have the publishers ID right in the link. Problem solved right? WRONG.
Actually... After contacting market leverage, nothing happened and nothing has happened. No information was turned over to any individual...
Today, I logged into one of my sites and what do you know. Some Son of a gun from Market Leverage hacked into one of my accounts and redirected my links to... MARKET LEVERAGE. Wow.
The result of this person hacking my links is still unknown but one thing I do know is that I will not stop talking poorly about Market Leverage until they tell me who the publisher with this ID is so I can pursue him or her in whatever means possible... If they want to protect hackers and keep allowing them in their network, then I sure as heck don't want to be working with them!
That being said, every hacker experience my close friends have had has been a result of someone redirecting links to market leverage. All I can say is... until they contact me and try to fix this, I will not be recommending them to anyone.
EDIT: So far Marketleverage has been pretty good about dealing with the issue and very responsive. I'll wait to tell you the results and what happens to this... publisher. I'm hoping to have him removed from every network by posting his information publicly (when or if I get it) and notifying every network I know of about his traffic.
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Hey…I am a current publisher at ML and I joined about two months ago. I was kind of skeptical about joining this company in the first place, but then I was won over by seeing some top bloggers talking about them in such a good light.
In my opinion, ML only reached out to you because you blogged about them and they were afraid their repuation was on the line. I think they check publishers blogs (the one you signed up with) on a daily basis to see if you posted anything about them and their company.
I am also starting to notice that ML is participating in spamming. My Affiliate manager keeps emailing several times a day on the “top offers to promote”. I don’t like any company that uses spam…it means they are unethical.
Another problem I have with ML is that many publishers have blogged about their stats being different from their own ‘click’ readings, which is a clear sign that ML is involved in ’shaving’ or not showing your true earnings by manipulating click stats.
Honestly, I think ML is like other affiliate programs out there. They are NOT honest and money hungry. After a while, they are going to be considered the second “clickbank” if they keep this up!
Personally, I would rather the networks not reveal my information. To an individual, a company, a government, I don’t want them revealing my information to anyone.
It’s really in everyone’s best interest that they protected the information of the user who was performing malicious activity.
Would you want affiliate networks giving away your name, address, phone number, etc. to just anybody… for any reason? I’m glad they took the stance they did, and honestly, if your friend makes thousands of dollars an hour, he should be thankful for what he has, and secure his system better next time.
Doing an essay on ecommerce, and have to paraphrase several sources, “exert market leverage” was part of what I needed to rephrase.